Dr Yan Yu

Research Fellow

T: +61 2 6125 3111
E: yan.yu@anu.edu.au
Room 3213 Coombs Building

Yan Yu finished her Ph.D. in sociology and master degree in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that, she graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University (B.S. English), and Columbia University (M.A. sociology). Her research interests include health and mortality, demography of ageing, family, and demographic and statistical methods. Her doctoral thesis examined the relationship between obesity and adult mortality. One of its chapters Recent US Trends in Body Weight and Mortality: Using Weight at Age 25 won the 2009 Dorothy S. Thomas award for the best student paper from the Population Association of America. She is currently working the Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing (DYNOPTA) project.

Work in Progress

Guillot, M and Y Yu. Estimating Health Expectancies from Two Cross-Sectional Surveys: The Intercensal Method.

Yan, Y. Life-Course Patterns in the Relationship between Weight and Mortality: An Age- and Cohort-Specific Analysis.

Yan, Y. Recent US Trends in Body Weight and Mortality: Using Weight at Age 25.

Booth, H and Y Yu. Differentials in Survival among Older Australians: Evidence from the DYNOPTA Database.