DR. ENRIQUE ACOSTA

CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA

DP

PROGRAMA DE POSDOCTORADO

RETOS POBLACIONALES ACTUALES

Personal Information

jaime.enrique.acosta@umontreal.ca or acosta@demogr.mpg.de Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Enrique_Acosta4 ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6250-4018

Current Positions

Research Scientist Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany Research Group: Population Health. Research Group Leader: Mikko Myrskylä, Ph.D.

Education Ph.D. in Demography Université de Montréal, Canada Supervisors: Alain Gagnon, Ph.D. and Nadine Ouellette, Ph.D. M.Sc. in Demography (2013) Université de Montréal, Canada *Accelerated in the doctoral program B.A. (Honours) in Sociology (2008) Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia B.A. (Honours) in Industrial Engineering (2007) Universidad Distrital de Bogotá, Colombia

Other Relevant Training

Life Table and Decomposition Analysis for Population Health Research (using R). Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany. June 2018

Smoothing Demographic Data: Flexible Models in Population Studies. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany. June 2017

Visualizing Data. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany. June 2017

Statistical Analysis in the Lexis Diagram: Age-Period-Cohort Models. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany. May 2016

Analyse des micro•données des recensements historiques canadiens. Centre interuniversitaire québécois de statistiques sociales (CIQSS), Montreal, Canada. May 2015

Research Course in historical demography. Center for economic demography, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. August 2014

Research Interests

Mortality, Extrinsic causes of death, Age-Period-Cohort effects, Epidemics (influenza, overdoses, HIV), Demography of violence, Social gradient of mortality.

Research Contributions

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles ACOSTA, Enrique, Stacey A. Hallman, Nadine Ouellette, Robert

Bourbeau, D. Ann Herring, Kris Inwood, Lisa Dillon, David J. Earn, Joaquin Madrenas, Matthew S. Miller, Alain Gagnon (2019) Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends. Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States 1959-2016. Demography, 56 (5).

ACOSTA, Enrique, Alyson van Raalte (2019) APC-Curvature Plots: Displaying Nonlinear Age-Period-Cohort Patterns on Lexis Plots. Demographic Research, 41 (42).

GAGNON, Alain, Enrique Acosta, Stacey Hallman, Robert R. Bourbeau, Lisa Dillon, David J. D. Earn, D. Ann Herring, Kris Inwood, Joaquin Madrenas, and Matthew S. Miller (2018) Pandemic paradox: Early life pandemic influenza infection enhanced susceptibility to death during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. mBio, 9 (1). * [Gagnon, Acosta, and Miller contributed equally]

GAGNON, Alain, Enrique Acosta, and M.S. Miller (2018) Reporting and evaluating influenza virus surveillance data: An argument for incidence by single year of age. Vaccine 36 (42).

GAGNON, Alain, Enrique Acosta, J. Madrenas and M.S. Miller (2015) Is Antigenic Sin always "original?": Re-examining the evidence regarding circulation of a human H1 influenza virus immediately prior to the 1918 Spanish Flu. PLOS Pathogens 11(3).

Completed unpublished manuscripts, Expected submission mid to late-2019

ACOSTA, Enrique, Alain Gagnon, Nadine Ouellette, Alyson van Raalte, Robert Bourbeau (2019) Baby Boomers’ Excess Mortality in Canada and the United States.

ACOSTA, Enrique, Catalina Torres, Rafael Silva-Ramírez, Robert Bourbeau (2019) Violence and External Mortality in Colombia: Analysis of Demographic Costs During the Period 1979-2016.

NEPOMUCENO, Marilia, Alyson van Raalte, Enrique Acosta (2019). Rising midlife mortality among US Whites: A cohort survival comparison

Conference Presentations

ACOSTA, Enrique, Alain Gagnon, N. Ouellette, A. van Raalte, R. Bourbeau, M. Nepomuceno (2019) Race and Gender Differences in Baby Boomers’ Excess Mortality in Canada and the United States. (Poster) REVES 2019, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, May 2019 * Best poster prize

ACOSTA, Enrique, Alain Gagnon, N. Ouellette, A. van Raalte, R. Bourbeau, M. Nepomuceno (2019) Race and Gender Differences in Baby Boomers’ Excess Mortality in Canada and the United States. The Population Association of America Annual Meeting (PAA), Austin, United States, April 2019.

ACOSTA, Enrique, Alyson van Raalte (2019) APC-Curvature Plots: Displaying Nonlinear Age-Period-Cohort Patterns on Lexis Plots. (Flash Session) The Population Association of America Annual Meeting (PAA), Austin, United States, April 2019.

ACOSTA, Enrique, Catalina Torres, Rafael Silva-Ramírez, Robert Bourbeau (2019) Violence and External Mortality in Colombia: Analysis of

Demographic Costs During the Period 1979-2016. (Poster) The Population Association of America Annual Meeting (PAA), Austin, United States, April 2019. (Declined due to conference maximum quota)

ACOSTA, Enrique, Stacey A. Hallman, Nadine Ouellette, Robert Bourbeau, D. Ann Herring, Kris Inwood, Lisa Dillon, David J. Earn, Joaquin Madrenas, Matthew S. Miller, Alain Gagnon (2018) Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends. Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the U.S. 1959-2015. Lab Talk Series at the MPIDR, Rostock, Germany, December 2018.

ACOSTA, Enrique, Catalina Torres, Rafael Silva-Ramírez, Robert Bourbeau (2018) Violence and External Mortality in Colombia: Analysis of Demographic Costs During the Period 1979-2016. Presented at the VIII International Congress of the Latin American Population (ALAP). Puebla, Mexico. October 2018.

ACOSTA, Enrique, Alain Gagnon, N. Ouellette, A. van Raalte, R. Bourbeau, M. Nepomuceno (2019) Race and Gender Differences in Baby Boomers’ Excess Mortality in Canada and the United States. Lab Talk Series at the MPIDR, Rostock, Germany, June 2018.

ACOSTA, Enrique, Alain Gagnon, N. Ouellette, A. van Raalte, R. Bourbeau (2018) Race and Gender Differences in Baby Boomers’ Excess Mortality in Canada and the United States. Workshop on Lifespan Variations, Tel Aviv University (TAU), Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2018.

NEPOMUCENO, Marilia, Alyson van Raalte, Enrique Acosta. Rising midlife mortality among US Whites: A cohort survival comparison. The Population Association of America Annual Meeting (PAA), Denver, United States, April 2018.

ACOSTA, Enrique, A. Gagnon, N. Ouellette, R. Bourbeau (2018) Surmortalité des baby-boomers au Canada et aux États-Unis. Colloque de l’Association des démographes du Québec (ADQ), Montreal, Canada, May 2018.

ACOSTA, Enrique, M.S. Miller, R. Bourbeau, A. Hallman, D. A. Herring, L. Dillon, D.J.D. Earns, J. Madrenas, A. Gagnon. Age-Period-Cohort Determinants of Influenza Mortality. IUSSP International Seminar on Pandemics: Reflections on the Centennial of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Virus, Madrid, Spain, November 2017.

ACOSTA, Enrique, A. Gagnon, N. Ouellette, R. Bourbeau (2017) Baby Boomers’ Excess Mortality: An International Comparative Analysis. International Population Conference (IPC) of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Cape Town, South Africa, October 2017.

ACOSTA, Enrique, R. Silva-Ramírez, L. Canon, M. Ospina, C. Ramírez, R. Bourbeau, S. Bignami, C. Torres (2017) The Long Scope of Violence: Demographic Impact of the Different Forms of Violence in Colombia between 1973 and 2015. (Poster) International Population Conference (IPC) of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Cape Town, South Africa, October 2017.

ACOSTA, Enrique, A. Gagnon, N. Ouellette, R. Bourbeau (2017) Baby

Boomers’ Excess Mortality in the United States. (Poster) The Population Association of America Annual Meeting (PAA), Chicago, United States, April 2017.

GAGNON, Alain, E. Acosta, S. Hallman, R. Bourbeau, L. Dillon, D. Earn, A. Herring, K. Inwood, J. Madrenas, M. Miller. Pandemic Paradox: Lasting Effects of Early Life Exposure to the 1957 H2N2 “Asian Flu” Pandemic. The Population Association of America Annual Meeting (PAA), Chicago, United States, April 2017.

ACOSTA, Enrique, M.S. Miller, R. Bourbeau, A. Hallman, D. A. Herring, L. Dillon, D.J.D. Earns, J. Madrenas, A. Gagnon. Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the US 1959-2012. Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography (ESHD), Leuven, Belgium, September 2016.

ACOSTA, Enrique, M.S. Miller, R. Bourbeau, A. Hallman, D. A. Herring, L. Dillon, D.J.D. Earns, J. Madrenas, A. Gagnon. Early life Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends in the U.S. 1960-2010. The Population Association of America Annual Meeting (PAA), Washington D.C., United States, April 2016.

ACOSTA, Enrique, M.S. Miller, R. Bourbeau, D. A. Herring, D.J.D. Earns, J. Madrenas, A. Gagnon. Early life exposure to influenza and lifecourse mortality: An age-cohort- period approach. Federation of Canadian Demographers Conference (FCD), Ottawa, Canada, June 2015.

GAGNON, A., E. Acosta, M.S. Miller, A. Hallman, R. Bourbeau, D. A. Herring, D.J.D. Earn and J. Madrenas. Exposition à la grippe en début de vie et risques de mortalité lors d’une pandémie de grippe. Colloques de l’Association des démographes du Québec (ADQ), Ottawa, Canada, June 2015.

GAGNON, A., E. Acosta, J. Madrenas and M.S. Miller (2014) Is Antigenic Sin Always “Original?” Re -examining the Evidence Regarding Circulation of a Human H1 Influenza Virus Immediately Prior to the 1918 Spanish Flu. Social Science History Association Conference (SSHA), Baltimore, United States, November 2015.

SIGNORETTI, N., F. Marco, E. Acosta et K. Willführ (2014) Infant and child mortality differentials by socioeconomic status during epidemics. (Poster) Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione (Popdays), Palermo, Italy, February 2015.

Research Experience

Ph.D. Research Fellow (2019)

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany. Research Group: Population Health. Research Group Leader: Mikko Myrskylä, Ph.D

Ph.D. Research Fellow (2018 – 2019) Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany Project: Lifespan Inequalities: Why the age-at-death distribution varies between countries and socioeconomic groups - LIFEINEQ. Research Group Leader: Alyson van Raalte, Ph.D.

Research Assistant (2016 – 2018)

Project: The lasting effects of influenza: Defining the causes and consequences of early life exposures on age-specific mortality later in life, 1890-2015. Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Research Group Leader: Alain Gagnon, Ph.D.

Research Assistant (2013 – 2016)

Project: Mortality risks in later life from exposure to pandemic influenza in early life: the 1890 and 1918 influenza pandemics in Canada. Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Research Group Leader: Alain Gagnon, Ph.D.

Teaching Experience

Lecturer Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística – DANE, Equipo de Proyecciones de Población y Análisis Demográfico - Workshop on Methods for Mortality Estimation – April 2016

Substitute Lecturer

Université de Montréal - Department of Demography, Montreal, Canada - Several sessions of the course Statistical Methods for Demography

(DMO6371) – Fall 2017

Teaching Assistant Université de Montréal - Department of Demography, Canada

- Methods in Historical Demography (DMO6330) – Winter 2017 Professor: Lisa Dillon, Ph.D.

- Statistical Methods for Demography (DMO6371) – Fall 2015 Professor: Thomas Legrand, Ph.D.

- Economy and Population (DMO3450) – Fall 2015 Professor: Thomas Legrand, Ph.D.

- Statistical Methods for Demography (DMO6371) – Fall 2014 Instructor: James Lachaud, Ph.D.

- Survival Analysis (DMO6405) – Winter 2014 Professor: Alain Gagnon, Ph.D.

Awards and Honors Postdoctoral Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

(SSHRC) (90 000 CAD, 2019-2021). Postdoctoral Grant, Fonde de Recherche de Québec – Société et Culture

(FRQSC) (110 000 CAD, 2019-2021). Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Fellowship Program, Social Sciences

and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (105 000 CAD, 2015- 2018).

Entrance Scholarship, Quebec inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS), (2 000 CAD, 2017 )

Scholarship to attend International Advanced Studies in Demography at

MPIDR (1 300 EUR, 2017). Scholarship to attend International Advanced Studies in Demography at

MPIDR (500 EUR, 2016). Excellence admission Scholarship, Faculté des études supérieures,

Université de Montréal, (4 000 CAD, 2014)

Scholarship for transfer from Masters to Ph.D. (14 000 CAD, 2014-2015). Competitive travel grants for students, Population Change and Life course

Strategic Knowledge Cluster (2 000 CAD, 2014). Excellence Scholarship for full Master studies - Universidad Distrital de

Bogotá (15 000 USD, 2009-2011). Distinction of the Universidad Distrital de Bogotá - Best graduating

student from Industrial Engineering at the University (2007). Distinction of the National Government of Colombia - Top ten graduating

Industrial Engineers in Colombia among 4 420 students (2007). Distinction of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) - Best result of

national quality exams of higher education (ECAES) in Industrial Engineering in the University (2006).

Memory of BA in Industrial Engineering qualified meritorious by the jury (2007).

Memory of BA in Sociology postulated by the jury upon the best memories of the Faculty at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2007-2008).

Media - “Avec la grippe aussi, c'est la première fois qui vous marque le plus !” France Inter, March 1st, 2018. https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/sante-polemique/sante- polemique-01-mars-2018

- “What your birth year says about your chances of getting the �u” Montreal Gazette, February 9, 2018 http://montrealgazette.com/news/what-your-birth-year-says-about- your-chances-of-getting-the-flu

- “Vos risques de mourir de la grippe H1N1 sont plus élevés si vous êtes né en 1957!” Forum, January 19, 2018 http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2018/01/19/vos-risques-de- mourir-de-la-grippe-h1n1-sont-plus-eleves-si-vous-etes-ne-en-1957/

- “Why your birth year may increase your risk of dying during a flu pandemic” CBC News, January 17, 2018 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/research-influenza- pandemic-1.4489315

- « La grippe espagnole a tué surtout à 28 ans ! » Forum, March 16, 2015 http://demo.umontreal.ca/departement/nouvelles-evenements/la- grippe-espagnole-a-tue-surtout-a28-ans-18168/

Journals reviewed for

PLOS One, American Journal of Epidemiology, Epidemiology and

Infection, PeerJ

Languages English (Fluent) French (Fluent) Spanish (Native)

Software Skills

R (Advanced), STATA (Advanced), Excel and Visual Basic (Advanced)

Professional Associations

International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Population Association of America (PAA) Asociación Latinoamericana de Población (ALAP) Association québécoise de démographie (ADQ)

Other Employment Background

Demographic consultant team member for the analysis of mortality

estimation methodology proposed by the Administrative National Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE). (Mars – May 2016). Under direction of Robert Bourbeau, Ph.D. and Simona Bignami, Ph.D.

Management Process Reporting and Data Bases Coordinator (2010 - 2011). National University of Colombia, Colombia

Project Coordinator on empowerment of the vulnerable population for social and economic integration (2008 - 2010). City Hall of Bogota, Institute for Social Economy-IPES, Colombia

Research Assistant (2007 - 2008). Engineering research center for technological innovation-CIDEI, Colombia

Academic References

Available upon request