I build statistical models to estimate the disparities in child and adolescence mortality rates across countries over time.
Fengqing Chao
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science
My research interests include statistical demography, global health, Bayesian modeling, and time series analysis.
Publications
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), which includes members from UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank …
United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
As part of its work in revising population estimates and projections for the biennial publication of the World Population Prospects …
Fengqing Chao, Vladimíra Kantorová, Giulia Gonnella, Lina Bassarsky, Lubov Zeifman, Patrick Gerland
We systematically assessed the sex ratios of mortality rates in the early life course, from birth to age 24 years, for 200 countries …
Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
This web appendix is for Estimation and probabilistic projection of levels and trends in the sex ratio at birth in seven provinces of Nepal from 1980 to 2050: a Bayesian modeling approach.
Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
This is a preprint that is under peer-reviewed currently.
Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
This report provides a detailed overview of the methodology used to produce the 2022 Revision of the official United Nations population …
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
The progress in reducing the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) since 1990 has been remarkable but uneven within countries between urban and …
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Jon Pedersen, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
I was not directly involved in preparing the report. But one of my research papers resulted as a section (Section 5 Estimates by sex, pp 8–10) in this report by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
For all low-income and middle-income countries (excluding China) combined, the absolute disparities in under-5 mortality rate between …
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Lucia Hug, Leontine Alkema
This web appendix formed part of the original submission and has been peer reviewed. The journal post it as supplied by the authors.
Supplement to: Chao F, You D, Pedersen J, Hug L, Alkema L.
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Lucia Hug, Leontine Alkema
I was not directly involved in preparing the report. But one of my research papers resulted as a section (Section 5 Estimates by sex, pp 8–10) in this report by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
National-level estimates of the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) may mask disparities at the subnational level. We developed a Bayesian …
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Leontine Alkema
Important differences exist between boys and girls with respect to survival up to the age of 5 years. Survival chances tend to improve …
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Cheryl C. Sawyer
This appendix formed part of the original submission and has been peer reviewed. The journal post it as supplied by the authors.
Supplement to: Alkema L, Chao F, You D, Pedersen J, Sawyer CC.
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Cheryl C. Sawyer
Monitoring of sex-specific mortality up to age five for all countries is challenging because of issues with data availability and …
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Cheryl C. Sawyer
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), which includes members from UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank …
United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
Under natural circumstances, the ratio of the male to female under-five mortality rate is greater than one. However, deprivation of …
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Cheryl C. Sawyer