Dr Julio Romero Prieto
Research Fellow in Demography & Health
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street, Room 147
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
I have a BA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), MA and PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania (2017).
Co-investigator: Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Surveys (RaMMPS), supported by grant funding to the US Fund for UNICEF from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (through an agreement with UNICEF-USA). PI: Reniers. https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/rapid-mortalit…
Co-investigator: Global Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality, supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01HD090082. PI: Guillot (University of Pennsylvania), co-PI at LSHTM: Reniers. https://web.sas.upenn.edu/global-age-patterns-under-five-mortality/
Co-investigator: Under-five mortality during the COVID-19 outbreak, evidence from demographic surveillance systems in low-income countries, consultantship contract with UNICEF. PI: Reniers.
Affiliations
Teaching
I co-organise and teach Demographic Methods (SU2057); and teach Population Dynamics and Projections (SU2429). I co-organise the distance learning module Demographic Analysis: Applications and Extensions (DEM204). Since 2019, I have been member of the Exam Board for the MSc in Demography and Health. I have supervised some MSc dissertations (6 in total); and I have been co-supervisor and advisory panel member of doctoral degree students at LSHTM.
Some of my lectures on Migration:
https://lshtm.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=466256ba-3c…
Reproductivity:
https://lshtm.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=05d99da8-d5…
Indirect Methods:
https://lshtm.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=365b7331-45…
Research
Mathematical Demography; Demographic Estimation; Model Life Tables; Historical and Global Age Patterns of Under-five Mortality.