Biography: Noreen Goldman, D.Sc., is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a Faculty Associate at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. A specialist in demography and social epidemiology, Goldman’s research examines the impact of social and economic factors, as well as stressful experience, on health, and the physiological pathways through which these factors operate. She has designed several large-scale surveys in Latin America and Asia. Her current research examines racial and ethnic disparities in health in the US. She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She is the author of more than 200 articles in population, epidemiology, sociology and statistics journals and various book chapters and monographs.

The Impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy in the US and Brazil: Disparities and Dependencies

Abstract: The US and Brazil have highest recorded number of COVID-19 deaths in the world: approximately 770,000 and 615,000 deaths respectively as of the end of November, 2021. The mortality impacts have been extraordinary, with the values of recent life expectancy setting some groups or geographic areas back to levels observed as far as two decades ago.  In this talk, we explore some of the social and racial/ethnic disparities within each country. We also consider differences in estimates of life expectancy decline within the US and Brazil that result from the untenable assumption that COVID-19 is an “independent” cause of death.

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