Andrew Stokes
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Andrew C. Stokes, PhD

Associate Professor, Global Health - Boston University School of Public Health

617-358-2444
acstokes@bu.edu
Crosstown Center
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Biography

Andrew C. Stokes, PhD is a demographer and sociologist with expertise in population health, aging, and mortality. His scholarship examines the social, economic, and health policy determinants of rising mortality inequities within the U.S. and the widening U.S. mortality disadvantage compared to peer nations. His research interests span from upstream factors such as tobacco regulatory policy and food environments to downstream factors such as chronic pain and disability. In his work, Dr. Stokes seeks to combine traditional approaches from demography and epidemiology with novel methods for causal inference, spatial-temporal modeling, and machine learning, toward the goal of generating timely evidence to shape health policy and improve public health.

Dr. Stokes holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University and is an affiliate of several Boston University Centers, including the Center for Innovation in Social Science and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering. He also serves as a Deputy Editor at the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. At the Boston University School of Public Health, Dr. Stokes directs the Master of Science in Epidemiology and Master of Science in Public Health Data Science programs and teaches several courses in applied research methods for population health.

Dr. Stokes received his B.A. in Environmental Studies from Bates College, M.A. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed post-bachelor fellowships at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health in Cambridge, MA, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, WA.

Other Positions

  • Associate Professor, Sociology - Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
  • Faculty Affiliate, Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering - Boston University
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Innovation in Social Science - Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania, PhD Field of Study: Sociology
  • University of Pennsylvania, MA Field of Study: Population Sciences
  • Bates College, BA Field of Study: Environmental Studies

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHGH811
  • SPHOM701
  • SPHPH750
  • SPHPH890

Publications

  • Published on 9/16/2025

    Paglino E, Raquib RV, Stokes AC. Excess Deaths Attributable to the Los Angeles Wildfires From January 5 to February 1, 2025. JAMA. 2025 Sep 16; 334(11):1018-1019. PMID: 40768220.

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  • Published on 9/16/2025

    Felson DT, Stokes AC. Obesity, Weight Loss, and Knee Osteoarthritis: The Role of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists. Ann Intern Med. 2025 Sep 16. PMID: 40953448.

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  • Published on 8/4/2025

    Teufel F, Roddewig P, Marcus ME, Theilmann M, Andall-Brereton G, Aryal K, Azadnajafabad S, Bovet P, Dorobantu M, Farzadfar F, Houehanou C, Sibai A, Stokes AC, Labadarios D, Gurung M, Jorgensen J, Karki K, Lunet N, Saeedi Moghaddam S, Mwangi KJ, Sturua L, Bärnighausen T, Flood D, Geldsetzer P, Damasceno A, Davies J, Vollmer S, Ali MK, Manne-Goehler J, Bulstra C. National evidence on glucose-lowering medication use for diabetes from 62 low- and middle-income countries. Nat Commun. 2025 Aug 04; 16(1):7139. PMID: 40759643.

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  • Published on 6/23/2025

    Wang J, Ferguson EL, Buto P, Chen R, Pederson A, Choi M, Stokes AC, Blacker D, Glymour MM. Sociodemographic, health-related, and clinical characteristics and their associations with mortality among all of us participants compared with the United States general population. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Jun 23. PMID: 40560532.

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  • Published on 6/23/2025

    Berlowitz JB, Xie W, Harlow AF, Kathuria H, Benjamin EJ, Stokes AC. Association of Cigarette-E-Cigarette Transitions With Respiratory Symptom Resolution. Nicotine Tob Res. 2025 Jun 23; 27(7):1284-1288. PMID: 39528433.

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  • Published on 6/7/2025

    Paglino E, Wrigley-Field E, Stokes AC. Diverging Mortality Trends by Educational Attainment in the US. JAMA Health Forum. 2025 Jun 07; 6(6):e251647. PMID: 40512512.

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  • Published on 5/16/2025

    Zhao J, Hong H, Zhai J, Poudel R, Srivastava S, Stokes AC, Lorkiewicz PK, Jiang T, Robertson RM, Bhatnagar A, Hall JL, Hamburg NM, Keith RJ. Clustering analysis of volatile organic compound biomarkers with tobacco exposure and the association with cardiovascular health outcomes in an observation study cohort. Tob Induc Dis. 2025; 23. PMID: 40386170.

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  • Published on 5/2/2025

    Bor J, Raquib RV, Wrigley-Field E, Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU, Stokes AC. Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Health Forum. 2025 May 02; 6(5):e251118. PMID: 40408091.

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  • Published on 3/31/2025

    Han DH, Leventhal AM, Stokes AC, Audrain-McGovern JE, Eckel SP, Liu J, Harlow AF. Nicotine-Cannabis Transitions and Nicotine Abstinence Among United States Adults. Epidemiology. 2025 Jul 01; 36(4):551-559. PMID: 40164563.

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  • Published on 3/4/2025

    Harlow AF, Stokes AC, Han DH, Leventhal AM, Barrington-Trimis JL. Vaping transitions and incident depressive symptoms among young adults: a marginal structural model analysis. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Mar 04; 194(3):746-754. PMID: 39013790.

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