Michel Guillot, Ph.D.

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Professor of Sociology

215.573.3655

242 McNeil Building

Education

Ph.D. Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
M.A. Demography, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, 1996
B.A. History, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, 1992

Research Interests

My research is organized primarily around two main areas: (1) formal demography; and (2) understanding health disparities across and within populations. In the area of formal demography, I have designed new methodologies for better understanding mortality levels and trends, and for studying their impact on population growth and aging. I have also made contributions in the area of model age patterns of mortality and indirect estimation methods, with a focus on under-5 mortality. In the area of health disparities, I have examined the burden of disease among the global poor, and have studied the health of vulnerable ethnic, religious, and immigrant groups in a range of populations, including India, the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, and France.

My current projects involve the study of interactions between nutrition, stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Ethiopia, India, Guinea-Bissau and The Gambia. I also co-lead a project on the study of the impact of COVID-19 on cohort mortality.

Since 2024, I serve as Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and the Core Stillbirth Estimation Group (CSEG) of the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).

Selected Publications

Estimating 1a0 and 4a1 in a Life Table : A Model Approach Based on Newly Collected Data,” J. Romero Prieto, A. Verhulst, M. Guillot. Demography 2024; 61 (3): 643–664.

Return Migration Selection and its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data,” M. Guillot, M. Khlat, R. Gansey, M. Solignac, I. Elo. Demography 2023; 60 (5): 1335–1357.

Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the mortality profiles of the foreign-born in France during the first pandemic wave” M. Khlat, W. Ghosn, M. Guillot, S. Vandentorren, DcCOVMIG Research Team, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 313, November 2022, 115160.

Divergent Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa : A Modelling Study.” A. Verhulst, J. Romero Prieto, N. Alam, H. Eilerts, D. Erchick, P. Gerland, J. Katz, B. Lankoande, L. Liu, G. Pison, G. Reniers, S. Subedi, F. Villavicencio, M. Guillot, Lancet Global Health, 10, 11 (2022), Pages e1566-e1574.

Global, regional, and national trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2019 with scenario-based projections until 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.” D. Sharrow, L. Hug, D. You, L. Alkema, R. Black, S. Cousens, T. Croft, V. Gaigbe-Togbe, P. Gerland, M. Guillot, K. Hill, B. Masquelier, C. Mathers, J. Pedersen, K. Strong, E. Suzuki, J. Wakefield, N. Walker. The Lancet Global Health, 10, 2 (2022), Pages e195-e206.

Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: Results From a Log-Quadratic Model Applied to High-Quality Vital Registration Data,” M. Guillot, J. Romero Prieto, A. Verhulst, P. Gerland. Demography 2022: 321-347. 

Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the impact of the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialised countries,” V. Kontis, J. E. Bennett, T. Rashid, R. M. Parks, J. Pearson-Stuttard, M. Guillot, P. Asaria, B. Zhou, M. Battaglini, G. Corsetti, M. McKee, M. Di Cesare, C. D. Mathers, M. Ezzati. Nature Medicine (2020).

NCD Countdown 2030: Pathways to Achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4,” J. E Bennett, V. Kontis, C. D. Mathers, M. Guillot, J. Rehm, K. Chalkidou, A. P. Kengne, R. M. Carrillo-Larco, A. A. Bawah, K. Dain, C. Varghese, L. M. Riley, R. Bonita, M. E. Kruk, R. Beaglehole, M. Ezzati. The Lancet (2020).