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Dr Julio Romero Prieto

Research Fellow in Demography and Health

app of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street, Room 147
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I have a BA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), MA and PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania (2017).

Co-investigator: Nutrition, late fetal and neonatal mortality in the African context, supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01HD116453. PI: Guillot (University of Pennsylvania), co-PI at LSHTM: Reniers.

Co-investigator: Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Surveys (RaMMPS), supported by grant funding to the US Fund for UNICEF from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (through an agreement with UNICEF-USA). PI: Reniers. /𲹰/Գٰ-𳦳ٲ-dzܱ/辱-ǰٲ…
Co-investigator: Global Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality, supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01HD090082. PI: Guillot (University of Pennsylvania), co-PI at LSHTM: Reniers.
Co-principal investigator: Under-five mortality during the COVID-19 outbreak, evidence from demographic surveillance systems in low-income countries, consultantship contract with UNICEF. PI: Reniers.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I co-organise and teach Demographic Methods (SU2057); and teach Population Dynamics and Projections (SU2429). Since 2019, I have been member of the Exam Board for the MSc in Demography and Health. I have supervised some MSc dissertations (6 in total); and I have been co-supervisor and advisory panel member of doctoral degree students at LSHTM.

Research

Mathematical Demography; Demographic Estimation; Model Life Tables; Historical and Global Age Patterns of Under-five Mortality.
Research Area
Demography
Statistical methods
Medical and vital statistics
Child health
Quantitative research
Mathematical modelling
Region
World
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

RENIERS, G; Romero‐Prieto, J; Chasukwa, M; Muthema, F; WALTERS, S; Masquelier, B; Banda, J; Souza, E; Dulani, B;
2025
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
Souza, E; Banda, J; Jamali, M; Muthema, F; Saikolo, J; Chasukwa, M; Tlhajoane, M; Dulani, B; ROMERO-PRIETO, J; RENIERS, G; Helleringer, S;
2024
Demographic research
Ahmed, S; ROMERO-PRIETO, J; Sánchez-Páez, DA; Masquelier, B; Pullum, T; RENIERS, G;
2024
Demographic research
GAZELEY, U; Polizzi, A; PRIETO, JR; ABURTO, JM; RENIERS, G; FILIPPI, V;
2024
The Lancet Global health
RENIERS, G; ROMERO-PRIETO, J; Chasukwa, M; Muthema, F; WALTERS, S; Masquelier, B; Banda, J; Souza, E; Dulani, B;
2024
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
ROMERO-PRIETO, J; Verhulst, A; Guillot, M;
2024
Demography
Gazeley, U; Polizzi, A; ROMERO PRIETO, J; ABURTO, JM; RENIERS, G; FILIPPI, V;
2024
medRxiv
GAZELEY, U; Polizzi, A; ROMERO-PRIETO, JE; ABURTO, JM; RENIERS, G; FILIPPI, V;
2023
International journal of epidemiology
GAZELEY, U; RENIERS, G; ROMERO-PRIETO, JE; CALVERT, C; JASSEH, M; Herbst, K; Khagayi, S; Obor, D; Kwaro, D; Dube, A; Dheresa, M; Kabudula, CW; Kahn, K; Urassa, M; Nyaguara, A; Temmerman, M; Magee, LA; Von Dadelszen, P; FILIPPI, V;
2023
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Ambia, J; ROMERO-PRIETO, JE; Kwaro, D; RISHER, K; Khagayi, S; CALVERT, C; Obor, D; TLHAJOANE, M; Odongo, F; MARSTON, M; SLAYMAKER, E; Rice, B; Kabudula, CW; Eaton, JW; RENIERS, G;
2023
PloS one