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.
Conference "Current issues of Russian Demography"
Can human life expectancy be more than 100 years? How do heat and cold waves affect mortality? Do the elderly experience isolation from society? Does alcohol-related mortality differ by region of Russia? These and other issues were discussed on November 8 at the international conference "Current issues of Russian Demography" organized by International Laboratory for Population and Health.
The expedition “Regional support measures as a factor of realization of reproductive intentions by example of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra”
From July 28 to August 9, 2024, as part of the Student Expeditions Program of the Educational Initiatives Foundation of the HSE University “Rediscovering Russia”, the staff of the International Laboratory for Population and Health organized an expedition in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, dedicated to the study of fertility and reproductive intentions. The expedition heads - Alexey Shchur and Vera Sokolova with a team of 10 students, including postgraduate demographers, students of the master's program “Demography”, bachelor's programs “Sociology”, “Geography of Global Change and Geoinformation Technologies”, visited Khanty-Mansiysk, Surgut, Kogalym, as well as the Russkinskaya village of Surgut district.
The purpose of the expedition was to study what factors (socio-economic, infrastructural, personal) determine the gap between the wanted number of children and the actual (expected) one, and to how much regional measures to support families influence reproductive decision-making. During the expedition, more than 900 respondents were interviewed and expert meetings were held with relevant departments and organizations that develop and implement demographic policy in the region.
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.