About the Laboratory
International Laboratory for Population and Health develops new methods for modelling and decomposing differences and changes of major health indexes in human populations. We conduct studies for unrevealing the Russian mortality enigma. We address components and factors of excess mortality at working ages and among the elderly. We are interested in health and quality of life in aging populations and in the impact of socioeconomic inequalities on people’s survival and health.
Seminar presentation of the UN World Population Prospects 2024
On the evening of July 11, 2024, World Population Day, the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs presented the updated World Population Prospects 2024. On July 12, the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research in collaboration with the National Center for Population and Health Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics held a seminar to present the new projections, where they also discussed the population projections for Russia prepared by Federal State Statistics Service, projections of the Global Burden of Disease and the health of the elderly in the context of population aging.
Seminar “Excess mortality in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic”
On June 4, the “Modern Demography” seminar featured a presentation by Ekaterina Degtiareva, research assistant at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, on excess mortality in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Seminar "Demographic development of Kazakhstan in the late 20th - early 21st centuries: state and problems"
On May 14, at the "Modern Demography" seminar, representatives from the international research center "Digital Social Research" at D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University (Republic of Kazakhstan) presented reports on the ethnic and demographic situation in Kazakhstan during the 20th and early 21st centuries, as well as on the level of demographic security in Kazakhstan.
"Current demographic changes in Kazakhstan"
On February 19, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Recreational Geography and Tourism of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan) Lazat Spankulova spoke at the seminar "Modern Demography" on current demographic trends in Kazakhstan.
Russian Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations Data Series as a new tool for population health and mortality research in Russia
On October 24, 2023, the staff of theInternational Laboratory for Population and Health presented a new tool for research in health and mortality of the Russian population: the Russian Database of Short-term Mortality Fluctuations, created within the framework of the project "Monitoring and Forecasting of Life Expectancy Based on Current Statistics"
Autumn School “Population and Health 2023”
From October 16 to 20, the International Laboratory for Population and Health of HSE University, Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center and the Strategic Project «National Centre of Science, Technology and Socio-Economic Foresight» held the Autumn School “Population and Health 2023”. More than 20 students, graduate students and young scientists took part in the school. Participants became familiar with approaches to measuring health, mortality data, measures of inequality and current studies, and gained practical experience in calculating various indicators in statistical software R.
Seminar "On the reliability and comparability of the results of the 2021 Russian Census"
On June 8, PhD, Head of the International Laboratory for Population and Health, Evgeny М. Andreev at the seminar "Modern Demography" spoke about the reliability and comparability of the results of the Russian population census of 2021.
Seminar "Son preference and its impact on fertility in Central Asia and the Middle East: cohort comparison"
On May 23, PhD student of Stockholm University Konstantin Kazenin spoke at the seminar "Modern Demography" about the son preference and its impact on fertility in Central Asia and the Middle East in cohort comparison.
Seminar "Why are there more losses in life expectancy for women in covid years in Russia than for men?"
On April 14, at the seminar "Modern Demography", representatives of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Doctor of Economics Irina E. Kalabikhina and Mikhail Maksimov, a master's student, talked about the relationship between women's life expectancy loss during the pandemic years and various demographic and social determinants.
The researches of the International Laboratory for Population and Health at the XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development
On April 4, researchers of the International Laboratory of Population and Health presented the results of their work at the XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.