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.
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…
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
2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Lifetime risk of maternal near miss morbidity: a novel indicator of maternal health.
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.
2023
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Evaluating pregnancy reporting in Siaya Health and Demographic Surveillance System through record linkage with ANC clinics.
2022
International Journal of Population Data Science
Divergent age patterns of under-5 mortality in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a modelling study.
2022
The Lancet Global Health