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Luis Rosero Bixby<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Acad\u00e9mico de N\u00famero<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Profesor Em\u00e9rito, Universidad de Costa Rica.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Miembro Extranjero, Academia Nacional de Ciencias de los Estados Unidos<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Investigador Asociado, Centro de Estudios de la Demograf\u00eda y Econom\u00eda del Envejecimiento (CEDA), Universidad de California Berkeley.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • MPH (M\u00e1ster en Salud P\u00fablica) y PhD en Planificaci\u00f3n de la Poblaci\u00f3n, Universidad de Michigan, Ann Arbor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Luis Rosero ha ocupado los siguientes cargos: Profesor y Catedr\u00e1tico, Universidad de Costa Rica (1977-2012), Investigador Prometeo, SENESCYT, Quito, Ecuador (2011-12), Population Officer, United nations Population division, New York (2011-11), Director y fundador, Centro Centroamericano de Poblaci\u00f3n, UCR (2001-09), Bernard Berelson Fellow, Population Council, New York (2000-01), Research Staff Member, Office of Population Research, Princeton University (1994-96), Experto Dem\u00f3grafo, CEPAL-CELADE, Costa Rica (1992-93), Dem\u00f3grafo, Asociaci\u00f3n Demogr\u00e1fica Costarricense (1977-85), Consultor a corto plazo (1978-96): UNICEF, PAHO-Washington, University of North Carolina, Macro International (DHS), Gobierno de Holanda, UNFPA, Brown University, USAID, The Population Council, OPS-Ministerio de Salud, Divisi\u00f3n de Poblaci\u00f3n de Naciones Unidas, Federaci\u00f3n Internacional de Paternidad Planeada (IPPF), World Fertility Survey, Investigador visitante:  Universidad de California en Berkeley (2009-10). The Population Council en New York (2000-01).  The Nordic School of Public Health (1993, 1995), University of Michigan (1985, 1992, 2005), The Centers for Disease Control (1987), Profesor visitante: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2008), Centro Latinoamericano de Demograf\u00eda (1981), Pontificia Universidad Bolivariana de Colombia (1976) y Vicepresidente, Asociaci\u00f3n Latinoamericana de Poblaci\u00f3n (ALAP) (2007-9). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ha obtenido los siguientes reconocimientos: Premio al Investigador de la Universidad de Costa Rica (2009), Premio Cient\u00edfico Destacado 2008, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda de Costa Rica (2008), Premio a la Excelencia Cient\u00edfica de Florida Farm and Co. (2004). Adem\u00e1s, es Miembro fundador, Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Costa Rica (1994- ), Foreign Associate Member, United States National Academy of Sciences (2013- ), Miembro del Grupo de Estudios Poblaci\u00f3n y sociedad de la Universidad Complutense (2006- ), Miembro Consejo Asesor de Investigaci\u00f3n de la Organizaci\u00f3n Panamericana de la Salud (2003-7), Miembro fundador de la Red de Investigaci\u00f3n del Envejecimiento en Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe (REALCE) (2006- ), Miembro del Panel Consultivo del programa de Reproducci\u00f3n Humana de la OMS (2000-6), Miembro del \u0093Data Safety and Monitoring Board\u0094 del ensayo cl\u00ednico para la vacuna de HPV del Instituto Nacional de C\u00e1ncer de los EEUU (2000- ), Miembro del Consejo editorial de la Revista Panamericana de Salud P\u00fablica de la OPS (2000-8), Miembro Committee on Fertility and Family Planning, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) (1995 -99), Miembro Scientific Advisory Committee, Demographic and Health Survey (1994-98) y Miembro Technical Advisory Group, Evaluation project, AID and University of North Carolina (1992-97) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Algunos de sus proyectos de investigaci\u00f3n son: Impacto Fiscal del Envejecimiento Demogr\u00e1fico.  Contralor\u00eda General de la Rep\u00fablica de Costa Rica (2011), Costa Rica: Estudio de Longevidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CRELES). The Wellcome Trust (2004-2009). US NHI y UCal-Berkeley (2009-2012), EQ-software, MICIT (2008-2009), Intergenerational Transfers, Population Ageing and Social Protection in Latin America. IDRC-CEPAL (2008-2009 y 2010-11), Redes familiares y la salud del adulto mayor: un estudio comparado de Costa Rica, Espa\u00f1a e Inglaterra. Convenio CSIC (Espa\u00f1a)-UCR (2007-2008), Post transition fertility in Latin America, prospects for below-replacement fertility,  Population Council (2000-2001), Reproductive health and migration from Nicaragua to Costa Rica University of Costa Rica, Mellon Foundation and Social Security Office (1999-2001), Equity and health in Central America.University of Costa Rica and PAHO (1999-2000), Supply and access to health services in Costa Rica. A GIS based assesment University of Costa Rica and PAHO (1997-98), Population and deforestation in Costa Rica, University of Costa Rica and Rockefeller Foundation (1997-99) y Impact evaluation of a screening program of stomach cancer in Cartago, Costa Rica, JICA, University of Costa Rica, Social Security Office (1995-2000). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Publicaciones representativas: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Rosero-Bixby, L., (2023) The vanishing advantage of longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica: A cohort shift.\u00a0Demographic Research<\/em>. 49(27): p. 723-736.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L., & Miller, T. (2022). The mathematics of the reproduction number R for Covid-19: A primer for demographers.\u00a0Vienna Yearbook of Population Research<\/em>\u00a020(online first).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby L, Rehkopf DH, Dow WH, Lin J, Epel ES, Azofeifa J, Leal A. (2019) Correlates of longitudinal leukocyte telomere length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): On the importance of DNA collection and storage procedures.\u00a0PLoS ONE 14<\/em>(10): e0223766.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L. (2018). High life expectancy and reversed socioeconomic gradients of elderly people in Mexico and Costa Rica.\u00a0Demographic Research 38<\/em>\u00a0(1), 95-108. DOI: 10.4054\/DemRes.2018.38.3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L., & Dow, W. H. (2016). Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: A tale of two inequality gradients.\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113<\/em>(5), 1130-1137. doi: 10.1073\/pnas.1521917112.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L.; Dow, W. H. & Rehkopf, D. H. (2014).\u00a0The Nicoya region of Costa Rica: A high longevity island for elderly males.\u00a0Vienna Yearbook of Population Research<\/em>\u00a011<\/em>: 109-136.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rehkopf, D. H., Dow, W. H., Rosero-Bixby, L., Lin, J., Epel, E. S., & Blackburn, E. H. (2013). Longer leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula: A population-based study.\u00a0Experimental Gerontology 48<\/em>(11):<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L. (2011) Generational Transfers and Population Aging in Latin America.\u00a0Population and Development Review 37<\/em>(suppl 1): 143-57.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L., Castro-Mart\u00edn, T. & Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda, T. (2009) Is Latin America starting to retreat from early and universal childbearing?\u00a0Demographic Research 20<\/em>(9): 169-194.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L & Sierra R. (2007). X-ray screening seems to reduce gastric cancer mortality by half in a community-controlled trial in Costa Rica.\u00a0British Journal of Cancer 97<\/em>(7): 837-843.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L (2004). Spatial access to health care in Costa Rica and its equity: A GIS-based study.\u00a0Social Science and Medicine 58<\/em>\u00a0, 1271-1284\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero Bixby, L & Palloni, A. (1998). Population and deforestation in Costa Rica,\u00a0Population and Environment Vol. 20<\/em>(2), pp.149-185<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rosero-Bixby, L., & Casterline, J. (1994). Interaction diffusion and fertility transition in Costa Rica.\u00a0Social Forces, 73<\/em>(2), 435-462.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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