Anastasia Lam

Job opening for postdoctoral researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic-Epidemiology.

The Medical Demography research group explains its goals for studying disease progression and its effects on health and the population.

We are looking for a PhD in demography, sociology, epidemiology, or related fields with experience in quantitative health data analysis.

Apply now: The application deadline is March 22, 2026. For more information, visit www.demogr.mpg.de/go/jobs.

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography
Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc

My first working paper from the @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social project is now available. Co-authored with PI @mjwdemography.bsky.social

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@salforduni.bsky.social @uos-health-society.bsky.social @ukri.org

Join me as 3-year #postdoc to study Demography of "Reproductive Ageing"

-menopause 🩸infertility 💉older fathers 👨‍👧 and more
-novel data sources from around the world
-population-level understanding of causes and consequences of reproductive ageing

+ Wonderful research community @mpidr.bsky.social

Deadline is approaching!!!!

📌 Submit your contribution until 30 November 2025 for #REVES2026 📆 11–13 March 2026|Tokyo, Japan

🔗 www.reves2026.com

#demography
#LifeExpectancy

💡New paper out! Together with @marilianep.bsky.social and Cássio Turra, we show that using gender gaps in healthy life expectancy as a metric for gender inequality in health is misleading, masking important underlying gender differences in health and mortality.
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing
Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA
Job:
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/

New publication ✍️ A chapter from the PhD thesis of @anastasialam.bsky.social has recently been published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. Lam and colleagues examine how historical contexts and adult characteristics explain differences in disease counts across generations in South Korea.

Job Offer: PhD Student Position
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the
@mpidr.bsky.social +
@imprs-phds.bsky.social
invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

📣Excited to share that our paper on widowhood, its gender and educational inequalities, and evolution over time in Finland is out now in @readdemography.bsky.social !✨

Thanks to my supervisors for their support in this work, and to @phrg-standrews.bsky.social, @mpidr.bsky.social, @imprs-phds.bsky.social

👉 Youngest (Post-war) cohort had lowest rates of disease accumulation
👉 Korean liberation cohort had highest rate of disease accumulation compared to Post-war cohort, after adjusting for various early-life and later-life characteristics

🔑 Historical context and life course experiences matter

🚨 Another paper from my PhD is out! We looked at disease accumulation across birth cohorts in South Korea 📈 doi.org/10.1093/gero...

❗ Birth cohorts defined by historical context: Japanese annexation (1932-1944), Korean liberation (1945-1949), Korean War (1950-1953), and Post-war (1954-1961)

Thank you! Yes we found the China numbers surprising. A regional analysis would be super interesting to look at difference in accessibility. And wrt to the stigma, maybe hearing aids should be made to look like AirPods or similar, then everyone will want to be cool and wear them 😎

Research reveals shocking disparity in hearing aid access Countries with the highest reported levels of hearing loss also have the lowest reported use of hearing aids, finds international research published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.

🚨 New publication out in BMJ Global Health with Jessica West & Yana Vierboom on global gender differences in self-reported #HearingLoss & #HearingAid use 🦻
👇 👇 👇 👇
Link to press release: bit.ly/4o0Htls 
Link to article: gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

Long lives, poor health? A comprehensive review of the evidence among international migrants AbstractIntroduction. Empirical evidence on migrant morbidity suggests that migrant populations have a higher burden of disease compared to non-migrants in

New article out in the British Medical Bulletin from the @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social project team:

| Long lives, poor health? A comprehensive review of the evidence among international migrants |

academic.oup.com/bmb/article/...

📢 The #REVES2026 Call for Papers is OPEN!

Join us to discuss about aging, longevity, and population health — with a focus on health expectancy and policy impact!

📆 11–13 March 2026|Tokyo, Japan

🔗 www.reves2026.com

📌 Submit by 30 November 2025

reves-network.org

#demography
#LifeExpectancy

We are hiring a Posd-Doctoral Research Fellow @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation. DL: 1 October. More info: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Image shows two older women enjoying gaming on a sofa, holding controllers and expressing excitement and joy, credit: istock.com/mediaphotos, with Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations logos. Accompanying text reads: Take part in research. Calling all gamers aged 65+: Shape understanding of how gaming influences wellbeing. Are you 65 or older, and have played some form of digital/video games? Take part in our online survey and help us discover how gaming can be used to improve wellbeing in later life

Are you 65+ or know someone who is?

We're seeking participants aged 65+ who play or have played digital/video games to complete an online survey to inform research on how #gaming can enhance later life wellbeing- please share! @ageingbetter.bsky.social

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/e...

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

Cohort Profile: Health Inequalities in Catalonia (the HEALIN cohort) Declines in different causes of mortality have been notable over the last few decades, resulting in unprecedented increases in longevity worldwide [1, 2].

📢Excited to share our new article describing the HEALIN cohort—a Catalan pop-based data of >1.5M people. This is the starting point for future research on health inequalities and multimorbidity in Catalonia. More info 👉 shorturl.at/xawaj
@demosocupf.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social

Health demographers 📣
Calling for submissions to our w. @timriffe1.bsky.social
Healthy Life Expectancy methodology collection on @genus.bsky.social! We're seeking innovative approaches to statistical modelling and empirical analysis of health inequalities 📈
📆 Submission deadline: 01/06/26
🔗 Link 👇

Wealth Inequality among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Evidence from Germany, 1988-2017: https://osf.io/jh5xp

🚨Great #postdoc opportunity to work with Hill Kulu and the rest of the team on #migrant #family #housing research using #microsimulation! We look forward to receiving your applications! ✍️

Living longer in worse health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox in the U.K. at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Living longer in worse health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox in the U.K. at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢 We are hiring! 📢

Are you a UK home student with (or nearing) a Master's degree in Demography, Public Health, Sociology or a related discipline? Do you have a strong interest in ethnicity and inequality? 📈🌍

If so, come and do a PhD @salforduni.bsky.social!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity!

Apply now for joint St Andrews–Max Planck project on fertility trends in high-income countries.
📍Rostock & St. Andrews
🗓️ Deadline: 10 June 2025

📢 More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-su...
#PhD #Demography #FertilityResearch

A group photo of the participants at REVES Conference in Tampere

The participants at #REVES2025 Conference in Tampere 🇫🇮!

REVES is the International Network on Health Expectancy.

Postdoctoral Fellow (276000) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (276000), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025

Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow

About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme

Today's #worldhearingday 🦻So we shine a💡on a study on age-related #hearingloss in Europe by D.Stonkute @mpidr.bsky.social & Y.Vierboom @princetonupress.bsky.social. Educational inequalities in hearing loss vary by age, gender&region. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/hearing #hearingcare #safelistening @who.int

📣 Exciting opportunities at LISER & LIS!

We are proud to announce the 3rd call for 2 research initiatives: This year a particular attention will be given to the policies dealing w/ old-age & #pensions and their impact on #inequality & labour market outcomes.
🔗 lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

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