nireEHU TIMOTHY LLOYD RIFFE
- Knowledge area
- Sociology
- Department
- Centre
- Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences
- Electronic mail
- tim.riffe@ehu.eus
My PhD was in demography (2013, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). I did a post doc doing data infrastructure programming and data curation at the Human Mortality Database (2012-2015, University of California, Berkeley). I was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (2015-2021), where I remain a guest researcher. In 2020 I obtained a Research Fellow positions offered by the Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, thanks to which I joined the Social Determinants of Health and Demographic Change (OPIK) research group of the UPV/EHU in 2021.
My original work focuses on indirect methods for measuring health disparities, on a measurement framework for demographic life-course based measures of health, and on decomposition approaches to characterize life course disparities in health and longevity. In 2020 I started the COVerAGE Database, a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases, deaths, tests, and vaccinations, which has underpinned efforts to monitor the pandemic at the WHO, UN-DESA, UNICEF, and in the global health literature. I also serve on the WHO / UN-DESA Technical Advisory Group for COVID-19 Excess Mortality, where my primary contribution aims to characterize age patterns of COVID-19 direct mortality and all-cause excess mortality for 2020 and 2021, based on combining various global datasets. I am now adding a new focus on demography and health disparities in the Basque Country to my research portfolio.