Alexis
Santos
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Expertise:
- Social Sciences
Focus Areas:
- Demography
- Economics
- Population Research
In The Media:
About
- Santos can speak to big0data topics such as population estimates and projections, health inequalities, and demographic information, including questions related to the census.
- He uses biomarker data to explore implications of alternative measurements of physiological dysregulation in understanding of health disparities.
Alexis R. Santos (Santos-Lozada) is an applied demographer and population health scientist whose research examines policy implications of demographic transformations in the United States and the international community and the study of social disparities in stress, health, and mortality.
His health and mortality projects are focused on post-climate disasters disparities and vulnerabilities due to different socioeconomic status. For example, after Hurricane María, Santos began a series of projects to study its effects on Puerto Rico’s population. The projects included the Puerto Rican Diaspora Study, an online survey for Puerto Ricans living in the United States about the strategies their families use to deal with post-Hurricane disaster conditions. The work also deals with the appropriate count of the number of deaths attributable to Hurricane Maria.
In The Media
For The U.S. Census, Keeping Your Data Anonymous And Useful Is A Tricky Balance
from NPR July 22, 2021
"A lot of people who are working everyday jobs who rely on demographics, they get their information from public data. And what we are at risk here is of putting out tabulations that do not help them at all and can misguide the decisions they're making."
Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Death Toll Could Exceed 4,000, New Study Estimates
from The New York Times May 29, 2018
Here's yet another reason to doubt the Hurricane Maria death toll
from CNN News August 2, 2018
Data shows hurricane deaths in Puerto Rico could be over 1,000
from Vox December 8, 2017
The Puerto Rican diaspora is buying last-minute tickets to join historic protests
from Quartz July 22, 2019
Death toll from Hurricane Maria estimated to be larger than previously thought
from Penn State News August 2, 2018
“The Caribbean is set to be hit by more weather disasters in the future, based on forecast models, and we don’t want history to repeat itself.” -Alexis Santos