Aline Désesquelles

Researcher
Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

alined@ined.fr

Field of Study: Demography
 
Specialization: Mortality, Health, and Longevity
 
Regional focus: United States and Canada, Western Europe
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Demography, 1997
 
Working languages: French
English, Italian
 
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Professional Summary:

Aline Désesquelles  is a senior researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) since 1998. After a PhD in demography (University of Bordeaux), she spent a post-doctoral year at the University of Chicago, where she was involved in research projects on the biodemography of aging. From 2004 to 2006 she was seconded to the French national statistical office (INSEE) to head the Unit of demographic studies and surveys. She was also involved in the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) as INED team leader of the questionnaire developing group.

Her major research interests and contributions are in the field of mortality and cause-of-death analysis. She coordinates the international network MultiCause and serves as chair of the  IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population) panel on Declining mortality and multi-morbidity at death (https://iussp.org/en/panel/declining-mortality-and-multi-morbidity-death). She also has a long-standing interest for the prison population. She organized the first nationally representative survey on health and disability in French prisons (“HID-prisons 2001”), and a survey on soon-to-be-released prison inmates (2024).

Parallel to her research activities, Aline Désesquelles has been associated editor of the European Journal of Population (2014-2016) and chief editor of the journal Population (2017-2020). From 2007 to 2009, she was Dean of the European Doctoral School of…