Bryan L. Sykes
· Associate Professor of Public Policy and SociologyCornell University · Sociology
Active 2000–2025
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About
Bryan L. Sykes is an Associate Professor in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and Department of Sociology at Cornell University. He is classically trained as both a demographer and a sociologist and applies and develops demographic, statistical, and mixed methodologies to understand how institutions, social policies, and population processes structure socioeconomic disadvantage. Over the last two decades, he has conducted empirical research and fostered educational opportunities that span multiple social science disciplines, emphasizing interdisciplinary training and research innovation to solve pressing social problems. Dr. Sykes serves as the Science Core Director for the Cornell Population Center and holds affiliations with several research centers including the Cornell Center for Social Science, the Berkeley Population Center at the University of California-Berkeley, and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. He is also a member of the Scholars Strategy Network and the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network at the University of Maryland. His editorial roles include Senior Associate Editor for Science Advances and former Academic Editor of PLoS One as well as former Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Perspectives. He holds leadership positions such as Treasurer-Elect of the Law & Society Association, Chair-Elect of the Crime, Law & Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association, and Chair of the Scientific…
Research topics
- Political Science
- Medicine
- Environmental health
- Geography
- Demography
- Sociology
- Law
- Economics
- Law and economics
- Finance
Selected publications
The Lancet · 2020 · 18933 citations
BACKGROUND: In an era of shifting global agendas and expanded emphasis on non-communicable diseases and injuries along with communicable diseases, sound evidence on trends by cause at the national level is essential. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic scientific assessment of published, publicly available, and contributed data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality for a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive list of diseases and…
The Lancet · 2020 · 1994 citations
BACKGROUND: Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for understanding a wide range of social, economic, and public health issues that affect populations worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected subnational locations from 1950 to 2019. METHODS: 807…
The Lancet · 2021 · 465 citations
BACKGROUND: Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 livebirths, for each country by 2030. To understand current rates, recent trends, and potential trajectories of child mortality for the next decade, we present the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 findings for all-…
The Lancet · 2020 · 128 citations
BACKGROUND: Across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), one in ten deaths in children younger than 5 years is attributable to diarrhoea. The substantial between-country variation in both diarrhoea incidence and mortality is attributable to interventions that protect children, prevent infection, and treat disease. Identifying subnational regions with the highest burden and mapping associated risk factors can aid in reducing preventable childhood diarrhoea. METHODS: We used Bayesian mod…
The Broad Scope and Variation of Monetary Sanctions: Evidence From Eight States
CrimRxiv · 2020-01-01 · 33 citations
preprintOpen accessMonetary sanctions have long been a part of the U.S. criminal justice system but have received increasing attention from the public as well as legal scholars and social science research in recent years. This essay describes initial findings from the Multi-State Study of Monetary Sanctions, a multi-method study designed to build on the prior research on legal financial obligations (LFOs) by examining the multi-tiered systems of monetary sanctions operating within eight states representing key reg…
Frequent coauthors
- 146 shared
Rakhi Dandona
University of Washington
- 144 shared
Lalit Dandona
- 143 shared
Theo Vos
- 137 shared
Christopher J L Murray
University of Washington
- 137 shared
Maziar Moradi‐Lakeh
- 130 shared
Guoqing Hu
- 126 shared
Chuanhua Yu
- 116 shared
Dan J. Stein
South African Medical Research Council
Education
- 2007
Joint Ph.D. in Sociology & Demography, Demography & Sociology
University of California Berkeley
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