Andrew Stokes Associate Professor Boston University School of Public Health

Andrew C. Stokes, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. His scholarship focuses on developing innovative approaches to mortality and cause of death surveillance using novel methods. His research interests span from excess mortality modeling to small area estimation and survey-based estimation of mortality rates. He is especially interested in developing methods for enhancing the quality and timeliness of mortality statistics to improve detection of emerging public health challenges. 

Substantively, Dr. Stokes’ scholarship engages with the social, behavioral, and metabolic determinants of mortality. His research focuses on both upstream factors such as tobacco regulatory policy and food environments as well as downstream factors such as cardiometabolic diseases and disability.  

Across his research portfolio, Dr. Stokes seeks to combine traditional approaches from demography and epidemiology with novel methods for causal inference, spatial-temporal modeling, and machine learning, toward the goal of generating timely evidence to shape health policy and improve population health.