About

Andrew C. Stokes, PhD is an Associate Professorin the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is also the founder and principal investigator of The Uncounted Lab, a research initiative that strives to inform the public and policymakers about unrecognized mortality impacts of pandemics, chronic diseases, and public health emergencies for which officially reported statistics are suspected to be incomplete or delayed.

Throughout his research, Dr. Stokes works to lead projects and contribute to collaborations that reveal the social and structural factors that influence health and disease across the life course, inform public health policies that center population health and health equity, and advance evidence-based reforms of public health systems. Some of his other research areas include the social epidemiology of chronic diseases across the life course and health effects of e-cigarettes and other emerging tobacco products. His methodological interests include spatial epidemiology, small area estimation, hierarchical models, and causal inference.

Dr. Stokes holds a secondary appointment in theDepartment of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University and is an affiliate of several Boston University Centers, including theCenter for Innovation in Social Science, the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering,and theCenter on Emerging Infectious Diseases. He also serves as a Deputy Editor at the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. At the Boston University School of Public Health, Dr. Stokes directs the Master of Science in Epidemiology and Master of Science in Public Health Data Science programs and teaches multiple courses includingSPH GH 811: Applied Research Methods in Global Health,SPH PH 750:Essentials of Population Health Research andSPH OM 701:Data, Determinants, and Decision-Making for Health Equity.

Alongside Professor Deborah Carr, Dr. Stokes is co-launching a new initiative, the BU Population Science Seminar Series (BU PopSci) in the 2026-27 academic year. The seminar series will bring together local, regional, and national researchers for a monthly conversation.

He received his PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his doctoral studies, he was a post-bachelor fellow at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health in Cambridge, MA. He received his B.A. in Environmental Studies from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Learn more about Dr. Stokes byviewing his Google Scholar profile.