José Henrique is a PhD student in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Brasília, Brazil and he holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Demography from the University of Campinas, Brazil. Before joining the Graduate Group in Demography at UPenn, José worked at the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE), the population division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is currently working on under-5 mortality estimation and on the assessment of historical trends of under-5 mortality sex ratios. His research interests lie in formal demography, more specifically in the application of demographic estimation methods and techniques in contexts of sparse or low-quality data.
Recent publications:
- Guillot, M., Draidi, M., Cetorelli, V., Monteiro Da Silva, J.H.C., and Lubbad, I. (2025). Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024. The Lancet 405(10477):478–485. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(24)02810-1.
- Monteiro da Silva, JHC, & Castanheira, HC (2024) Using household death questions from surveys to assess adult mortality in periods of health crisis: An application for Peru, 2018–2022, Demographic Research, 51(8):215–228
- Castanheira, H.C., Monteiro da Silva, J.H.C. 2022. 'Handbook for the use of Death Distribution Methods'. Serie Población y Desarollo, 137. https://repositorio.cepal.org/entities/publication/e05e3d00-eeab-438a-b785-9c472a92a237