Anastasia Lam
anastasialam.bsky.social
Anastasia Lam
@anastasialam.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Einstein Center Population Diversity & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | Population aging, health expectancies, wealth & health inequalities, cross-national comparisons
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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
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Deadline is approaching!!!!

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

🔗 www.reves2026.com

#demography
#LifeExpectancy
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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💡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...
Gender gaps in healthy life expectancy as indicators of inequality for disability and chronic disease: cross-sectional evidence from 24 countries, years 2014–2019
Objective Gender gaps in healthy life expectancy are frequently used as indicators of health inequality between women and men. However, total gaps can be misleading—masking critical disparities such a...
bmjopen.bmj.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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...
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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📣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 !✨
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨 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)
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October 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🚨 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...
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.
bit.ly
October 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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/...
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
academic.oup.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📢 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
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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...
September 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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🚨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
September 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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📢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
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].
shorturl.at
September 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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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 👇
Healthy Life Expectancy: New Methods, New Insights
As countries worldwide experience population aging, understanding not just how long people live, but how many of those years are spent in good health, has ...
link.springer.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Wealth Inequality among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Evidence from Germany, 1988-2017: https://osf.io/jh5xp
June 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🚨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! ✍️
June 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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📢 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...
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
www.findaphd.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)
www.diw.de
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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🚨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
May 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The participants at #REVES2025 Conference in Tampere 🇫🇮!

REVES is the International Network on Health Expectancy.
May 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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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®ion. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/hearing #hearingcare #safelistening @who.int
March 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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📣 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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January 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM