Team
Boston University Team
Andrew C. Stokes, PhD
Andrew C. Stokes (he/him) is the founder and principal investigator of The Uncounted Lab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) with a secondary appointment in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University. He is also an affiliate of several Boston University Centers, including the Center for Innovation in Social Science and the Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and is a member of the Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment at the World Health Organization. Throughout his research, Dr. Stokes works to lead projects and contribute to collaborations that reveal the social and structural factors that influence health and disease across the life course, inform public health policies that center population health and health equity, and advance evidence-based reforms of public health systems.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Stokes has worked to build multi-institutional projects between researchers, journalists, and community-based organizations and advocates to combine data and narrative to highlight the social and structural determinants of mortality and other health inequities during the pandemic. This scholarship has been uniquely focused on the ways that health systems have not accurately counted and accounted for these impacts. His use of granular spatial data combined with hierarchical modeling and machine learning methods provides a novel research methodology that allows for a disaggregation of place and other characteristics that is not otherwise possible in national data.
Some of Dr. Stokes’s other research areas include the social epidemiology of chronic diseases over the life course and health effects of e-cigarettes and other novel and emerging tobacco products. His methodological interests include spatial epidemiology, small area estimation, hierarchical models, and causal inference. Dr. Stokes received his PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Learn more about Dr. Stokes and his research on his website.
Rafeya Raquib, MS
Rafeya Raquib (she/her) is a Research Fellow in the Uncounted Lab at BUSPH, currently doing work focused around COVID-19 mortality statistics. She received her BA in Statistics and BS in Psychology from the University at Buffalo, and her MS in Applied Biostatistics from Boston University. Prior to her current position, she was a research support specialist for infant behavioral and dietary research at the University at Buffalo. She is dedicated to data powered public health equity, especially for historically disadvantaged communities and demographic groups.
Dielle Lundberg, MPH
Dielle Lundberg (she/her or ze/hir) is a Research Fellow in the Uncounted Lab at Boston University School of Public Health where she received her MPH in 2019. Through her work with the lab, she examines policies and structures within health systems that contribute to excess and unrecognized mortality impacts, including for disabled communities. Personally and professionally, Dielle is committed to dismantling structural ableism in health systems. She is also a multi-media artist interested in the ways that art can foster connection, engagement, and public and environmental health. Learn more about Dielle and her scholarship on her website.
Other Collaborators
Boston University
Jacob Bor
Maria Glymour
Elaine O. Nsoesie
Stanford University
University of California Santa Cruz
Zehang Richard Li
Alicia R. Riley