Vincent Bio Bediako

Vincent Bio Bediako is a demographer and data scientist whose research integrates statistical modeling, geospatial analysis, and demographic methods to investigate health disparities in Sub-Saharan Africa. His work focuses on under-five mortality, later-life cognition, climate-health interactions, and social determinants of health. Vincent’s current projects examine how social participation influences cognitive aging in rural Malawi and how gestational heat exposure affects stillbirth risk in Ghana using Bayesian spatiotemporal models. He also investigates ethnic disparities in child survival across Africa using decomposition and person-years frameworks. Vincent is a PhD student in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania and an affiliated fellow of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health, and Data Science.