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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

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I co-organise and teach Demographic Methods (SU2057); and teach Population Dynamics and Projections (SU2429). 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.
Research Area
Demography
Statistical methods
Medical and vital statistics
Child health
Quantitative research
Mathematical modelling
Region
World
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Mobile Phone Survey Estimates of Perinatal Mortality in Malawi: A Comparison of Data from Truncated and Full Pregnancy Histories
RENIERS, G; Romero-Prieto, J; Chasukwa, M; Muthema, F; WALTERS, S; Masquelier, B; Banda, J; Souza, E; Dulani, B;
2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Lifetime risk of maternal near miss morbidity: a novel indicator of maternal health.
GAZELEY, U; Polizzi, A; Romero-Prieto, JE; ABURTO, JM; RENIERS, G; FILIPPI, V;
2023
International journal of epidemiology
Pregnancy-related mortality up to 1 year postpartum in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of verbal autopsy data from six countries.
GAZELEY, U; RENIERS, G; Romero-Prieto, JE; CALVERT, C; JASSEH, M; Herbst, K; Khagayi, S; Obor, D; Kwaro, D; Dube, A; Dheresa, M; Kabudula, CW; Kahn, K; Urassa, M; Nyaguara, A; Temmerman, M; Magee, LA; Von Dadelszen, P; FILIPPI, V;
2023
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Comparison of programmatic data from antenatal clinics with population-based HIV prevalence estimates in the era of universal test and treat in western Kenya.
Ambia, J; Romero-Prieto, JE; Kwaro, D; RISHER, K; Khagayi, S; CALVERT, C; Obor, D; TLHAJOANE, M; Odongo, F; MARSTON, M; SLAYMAKER, E; Rice, B; Kabudula, CW; Eaton, JW; RENIERS, G;
2023
PloS one
Lifetime risk of maternal near miss morbidity: A novel indicator of maternal health
Gazeley, U; Prieto, JR; Aburto, JM; Polizzi, A; RENIERS, G; FILIPPI, V;
2023
medRxiv
Women's risk of death beyond 42 days post partum: a pooled analysis of longitudinal Health and Demographic Surveillance System data in sub-Saharan Africa.
GAZELEY, U; RENIERS, G; Eilerts-Spinelli, H; Prieto, JR; JASSEH, M; Khagayi, S; FILIPPI, V;
2022
The Lancet Global Health
Evaluating pregnancy reporting in Siaya Health and Demographic Surveillance System through record linkage with ANC clinics.
Eilerts-Spinelli, H; Prieto, JR; Ambia, J; Khagayi, S; Kabudula, C; Eaton, JW; RENIERS, G;
2022
International Journal of Population Data Science
Divergent age patterns of under-5 mortality in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a modelling study.
Verhulst, A; Prieto, JR; Alam, N; Eilerts-Spinelli, H; Erchick, DJ; Gerland, P; Katz, J; Lankoande, B; Liu, L; Pison, G; RENIERS, G; Subedi, S; Villavicencio, F; Guillot, M;
2022
The Lancet Global Health
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