Patrick Heuveline

About

Patrick Heuveline is a professor in the UCLA Sociology Department. His research interests center on how childhood family structures affect child wellbeing and the transition to adulthood. He has conducted comparative, secondary data analyses on single parenting and cohabitation in Western nations, and has an ongoing project in Cambodia studying family change since the Khmer-Rouge period (1975-79). Methodologically, he develops and estimates models focused on population dynamics to represent phenomena intertwined with demographic processes, with applications including the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Africa and the death toll of the Khmer Rouge regime. Heuveline holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His work includes a book titled 'Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes' and numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals. His research has been supported by grants from institutions such as the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He is actively engaged in advancing demographic research and policy analysis related to family structures, population health, and historical population dynamics.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Geography
• Medicine
• Demography
• Demographic economics
• Socioeconomics
• Political Science
• Economics
• Gerontology
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• Global and National Declines in Life Expectancy: An End‐of‐2021 Assessment

  Population and Development Review · 2022 · 86 citations

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  Timely, high-quality mortality data have allowed for assessments of the impact of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on life expectancies in upper-middle- and high-income countries. Extant data, though imperfect, suggest that the bulk of the pandemic-induced mortality might have occurred elsewhere. This article reports on changes in life expectancies around the world as far as they can be estimated from the evidence available at the end of 2021. The global life expectancy appears to h…

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• Beyond deaths per capita: comparative COVID-19 mortality indicators

  BMJ Open · 2021 · 65 citations

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  OBJECTIVES: Following well-established practices in demography, this article discusses several measures based on the number of COVID-19 deaths to facilitate comparisons over time and across populations. SETTINGS: National populations in 186 United Nations countries and territories and populations in first-level subnational administrative entities in Brazil, China, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain and the USA. PARTICIPANTS: None (death statistics only). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: An unstan…

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• The boundaries of genocide: Quantifying the uncertainty of the death toll during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia (1975–79)

  Population Studies · 2015-05-04 · 28 citations

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  The range of estimates of excess deaths under Pol Pot's rule of Cambodia (1975-79) is too wide to be useful: they range from under 1 to over 3 million, with the more plausible estimates still varying from 1 to 2 million. By stochastically reconstructing population dynamics in Cambodia from extant historical and demographic data, we produced interpretable distributions of the death toll and other demographic indicators. The resulting 95 per cent simulation interval (1.2-2.8 million excess deaths)…

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• Interpreting changes in life expectancy during temporary mortality shocks

  Demographic Research · 2023-01-05 · 22 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Life expectancy is a pure measure of the mortality conditions faced by a population, unaffected by that population's age structure. The numerical value of life expectancy also has an intuitive interpretation, conditional on some assumptions, as the expected age at death of an average newborn. This intuitive interpretation gives life expectancy a broad appeal. Changes in life expectancy are also routinely used to assess mortality trends. Interpreting these changes is not straightforwa…

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• Beyond Deaths per Capita: Comparative CoViD-19 Mortality Indicators

  medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2020 · 21 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  OBJECTIVES: Following well-established practices in demography, this article discusses several measures based on the number of CoViD-19 deaths to facilitate comparisons over time and across populations. SETTINGS: National populations in 186 UN countries and territories and populations in first-level sub-national administrative entities in Brazil, China, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and the USA. PARTICIPANTS: None (death statistics only). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: An unstandardized o…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HD054618

  NIH · $1.5M · 2014

• California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at UCLA

  NIH · $2.2M · 2001–2027

• NIH Grant R03HD041537

  NIH · $152k · 2005

Frequent coauthors

• Michael Tzen

  University of California, Los Angeles

  6 shared

• Noreen Goldman

  Princeton University

  5 shared

• Bunnak Poch

  Ministry of Health

  5 shared

• J. Baxter

  5 shared

• Jeffrey M. Timberlake

  University of Cincinnati

  5 shared

• Gail B. Slap

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  4 shared

• Michel Guillot

  University of Pennsylvania

  4 shared

• T. Tai

  Providence University

  3 shared

Awards & honors

• Chair (Président), Comité d’évaluation des personnels cherch…
• Senior Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies (2015-2016)
• Elected: Nomination Committee, Population Association of Ame…
• Elected, Board of Directors, Population Association of Ameri…
• Fellow, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Scie…

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