About
Tamara Vaz de Moraes Santos is a researcher in the Health and Longevity research group at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She holds a master's degree in Demography from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (CEDEPLAR/UFMG), where her dissertation focused on indirect methods to estimate the educational gradient in adult mortality using incomplete data from Brazil. Tamara also participated in the European Doctoral School of Demography, where she explored the heterogeneity of gender disparities in unhealthy life expectancy across European countries through macro-level country indicators. Furthermore, she worked as an individual consultant at the Population Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, assisting with the estimation and projection of demographic components and population.
Areas of Expertise
- Formal Demography
- Health and Mortality Inequalities
- Indirect Methods for Demographic Estimation
Research Areas
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Affiliation: VID/ÖAW E-Mail: tamara.vaz(at)oeaw.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 51581 - 7720
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.