I am a demographer and sociologist, with a strong interest in the analysis of mortality trends. My research mostly focuses on the analysis of: mortality shocks (period effects) during epidemics and pandemics; influence of cohort and generation membership (cohort effects) on mortality; exogenous causes of death, i.e. airborne infections and behaviorally driven causes of death. From a methodological perspective, I have specialized in the analysis of Age, Period, and Cohort (APC) effects on mortality; decomposition analysis; and formal demography.
2021 Riffe Tim*, Enrique Acosta*, and the COVerAGE-DB Team. “COVeAGE-DB: A Global Database of Age-structured COVID-19 Cases and Deaths.” International Journal of Epidemiology (In Press).
2020 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, 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).
2019 Acosta, Enrique, Alyson van Raalte. “APC-Curvature Plots: Displaying Nonlinear Age-Period-Cohort Patterns on Lexis Plots.” Demographic Research, 41 (42).
2018 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).
Excellence award for best doctoral student – Department of demography, Université de
Montréal (2020).
Dean´s list of honor - Université de Montréal (2020).
2022).* Amount: 110,000 CAD.
* First place. Merged with SSHRC postdoctoral Fellowship.
Postdoctoral Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of
Canada (2020-2022). Amount: 90,000 CAD.
Doctoral Grant Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council (SSHRC) of Canada (2015-2018). Amount: 105,000 CAD