Andrew C. Stokes
Associate Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Sociology · Boston University
Andrew C. Stokes is a demographer and sociologist who uses advanced computational methods to study the social, economic, policy, and other structural determinants of rising mortality inequities within the U.S. and the widening U.S. mortality disadvantage compared to other high-income countries. In his work, Dr. Stokes applies interdisciplinary approaches, combining traditional methods from demography, quantitative sociology, and epidemiology with novel techniques for machine learning, causal inference, and spatial-temporal modeling, toward the goal of generating timely evidence to shape health and social policy and improve population health.
Selected Papers
Applied Machine Learning:
Identifying Patterns of Tobacco Use and Associated Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Machine Learning Analysis of Urine Biomarkers
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Excess Mortality Modeling:
Excess Mortality as a Tool to Monitor the Evolution of Health Emergencies: Choices, Challenges, and Future Directions
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Cross-National Mortality Comparisons:
Social Inequalities and Health Disparities:
Evolution of the US nonmetropolitan mortality disadvantage by sex, state, and year, 1999-2019
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Disparities in All-Cause Mortality Beyond the Acute Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
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Sociodemographic Differences in E-Cigarette Uptake and Perceptions of Harm
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Teaching
Dr. Stokes teaches the following courses at Boston University:
Op-Eds & Commentaries
Policy Impact
Selected citations of Dr. Stokes’s research in federal, state, and other policy guidance.
The Nature of the Rural-Urban Mortality Gap
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Cites two studies published by Dr. Stokes and colleagues in the American Journal of Public Health and Health Affairs, entitled “Contribution of Obesity to International Differences in Life Expectancy” and “Projecting the Effect of Changes in Smoking and Obesity on Future Life Expectancy in the United States.”
CDC’s State of Vaccine Confidence Insights Report: Vaccination in Rural America Special Report
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Quotes a study published by Dr. Stokes and colleagues in Science Advances entitled “Monthly excess mortality across counties in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, March 2020 to February 2022.”
The 2023 Joint Economic Report (Senate Report 118-86)
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Cites a study published by Dr. Stokes and colleagues in PNAS entitled “The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement.”
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community
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Cites a study published by Dr. Stokes and colleagues in SSM - Mental Health entitled “Loneliness, social isolation, and all-cause mortality in the United States.”
Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General
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Cites multiple studies by Dr. Stokes and colleagues, including “E-cigarette initiation and associated changes in smoking cessation and reduction” (Tobacco Control), “Socio-economic and racial/ethnic differences in e-cigarette uptake among cigarette smokers” (Nicotine and Tobacco Research), and “Association between e-cigarette use and cardiovascular disease among never and current combustible-cigarette smokers” (American Journal of Medicine).
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Contact
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