Alberto Palloni

Board of Trustees Professor Department of Sociology Areas of Interest: Population, Mortality and Fertility, Social Stratification, Mathematical Demography, Statistical Applications

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Alberto Palloni is a demographer and sociologist who works on health and mortality, socioeconomic inequality, aging in developing countries, criminology and applications of statistical and mathematical models for the spread of illnesses. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the Population Association of America. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.  He received his B.A. from the Catholic University of Chile and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.  Dr. Palloni's current research interests include: the relation between early health status and social stratification and inequalities and poverty in the US, determinants of health and mortality disparities among ethnic groups in the US, models for the spread of HIV/AIDS, families and households in Africa and Latin America, aging and mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean, and application of mathematical and statistical models to the study of health and mortality determinants, fertility, social stratification and the spread of illnesses.

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