CED - Centre d'estudis Demogràfics

Enrique Acosta

ORCID 0000-0001-6250-4018 Investigador Ramón y Cajal

Titulació: Doctor en Demografia (Université de Montréal)
Línia/es de recerca: Salut, mortalitat i causes de mort

I am a demographer and sociologist with an interest in the analysis of mortality trends. My research mostly focuses on: mortality shocks (period effects) during epidemics and pandemics; influence of birth cohort and generation membership (cohort effects) on mortality; and behaviorally driven mortality. From a methodological perspective, I have specialized in the analysis of Age, Period, and Cohort (APC) effects on mortality, excess mortality estimation, and demographic decomposition analysis

2023

Pifarré i Arolas, Héctor, Enrique Acosta, Christian Dudel, Jo Mhairi Hale, i Mikko Myrskylä. 2023. «US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure». Epidemiology

2022

ACOSTA, Enrique. 2022. «Global estimates of excess deaths from COVID-19». Nature 613:31-33. doi: 10.1038/d41586-022-04138-w.

Acosta, Enrique. “La surmortalité des baby-boomers au Canada et aux États-Unis,” in “L’éclairage de la démographie : Mesurer pour mieux comprendre les enjeux sociaux”. Edited by Victor Piché, Céline Le Bourdais, Richard Marcoux, and Nadine Ouellette. Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal. ISBN 9782760644830.

Ebeling, Marcus, Enrique Acosta, Anna Meyer, Hal Caswell, and Modig Karin. “Years of life lost during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden considering variation in life expectancy by level of geriatric care.” European Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-022-00915-z

Acosta, Enrique, Neil Mehta, Mikko Myrskylä, and Marcus Ebeling. “Cardiovascular Mortality Gap between the United States and other High Life Expectancy Countries during the Period 2000-2016.” Journal of Gerontology – Social Sciences, 77(IS2). https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac032

2021

Garcia-Calavaro , Christian, Angel Paternina-Caicedo, Adrian D. Smith, Lee H. Harrison, Fernando De la Hoz-Restrepo, Enrique Acosta, and Tim Riffe. “COVID-19 mortality needs age adjusting for international comparisons.” Journal of Medical Virology 93

Morwinsky, Saskia, Natalie Nitsche, Enrique Acosta. “COVID-19 fatality in Germany: Demographic determinants of variation in case-fatality rates across and within German federal states during the first and second waves.” Demographic Research, 45 (45).

Sempé, Lucas, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Ramón Martínez, Shah Ebrahim, Martin McKee, Enrique Acosta. “Estimation of all-cause excess mortality by age-specific mortality patterns for countries with incomplete vital statistics: a population-based study of the case of Peru during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The Lancet Regional Health – Americas 100039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2021.100039

Ghio, Daniela, Enrique Acosta, David Fisman, Andrew Noymer, Nikolaos I. Stilianakis, and Simona Bignami. “Population Health and COVID-19 in Canada: a Demographic Comparative Perspective.” Canadian Studies in Population. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-021-00057-9

Pifarré i Arolas, Héctor, Enrique Acosta, Guillem López Casasnovas, Adeline Lo, Catia Nicodemo, Tim Riffe, and Mikko Myrskylä. “Global Years of Life Lost to COVID-19.” Scientific Reports 11(3504). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3

Pifarré i Arolas, Héctor, Enrique Acosta, and Mikko Myrskylä. “Optimal vaccination age varies across countries.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118 (29). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105987118

Riffe Tim*, Enrique Acosta*, and the COVerAGE-DB Team. “COVerAGE-DB: A Global Database of Age-structured COVID-19 Cases and Deaths.” International Journal of Epidemiology 50(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab027 * [Riffe and Acosta contributed equally]

2020

Gagnon, Alain, Enrique Acosta, and M.S. Miller. “Age-specific incidence of influenza A responds to change in virus subtype dominance .” Clinical Infectious Diseases, (ciaa075).

Dudel, Christian, Tim Riffe, Enrique Acosta, Alyson A. van Raalte, Cosmo Strozza, and Mikko Myrskylä. “Monitoring Trends and Differences in COVID-19 Case Fatality Rates Using Decomposition Methods: Contributions of Age Structure and Age-Specific Fatality.” PLOS ONE, 15(9): e0238904.

Nepomuceno, Marília R.*, Enrique Acosta*, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, José Manuel Aburto, Alain Gagnon, and Cássio M. Turra.“ Besides Population Age Structure, Health and Other Demographic Factors can Contribute to Understanding the COVID-19 Burden.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117(25).

2019

Acosta, Enrique, and Alyson van Raalte. 2019. “APC Curvature Plots: Displaying Nonlinear Age-Period-Cohort Patterns on Lexis Plots.” Demographic Research 41 (November): 1205–34. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.42

Acosta, Enrique, S.A. Hallman, N. Ouellette, R. Bourbeau, D.A. Herring, K. Inwood, L. Dillon, D.J. Earn, J. Madrenas, M.S. Miller, A. Gagnon. “Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends. Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States 1959-2016.” Demography, 56 (5).

2018

Gagnon, Alain, Enrique Acosta, and M.S. Miller. “Reporting and evaluating influenza virus surveillance data: An argument for incidence by single year of age.” Vaccine 36 (42).

Gagnon, Alain, Enrique Acosta, S. Hallman, R.R. Bourbeau, L. Dillon, D.J. Earn, D.A. Herring, K. Inwood, J. Madrenas, and M.S. Miller. “Pandemic paradox: Early life pandemic influenza infection enhanced susceptibility to death during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.” mBio, 9 (1).

2015

Gagnon, Alain, Enrique Acosta, J. Madrenas and M.S. Miller. “Is Antigenic Sin always "original?": Re-examining the evidence regarding the circulation of a human H1 influenza virus immediately prior to the 1918 Spanish Flu.” PLOS Pathogens 11(3).