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Alexis R. Santos-Lozada

Alexis R. Santos-Lozada

Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology and Director of Applied Demography, Pennsylvania State University

Alexis R. Santos (Santos-Lozada) is an applied demographer and population health scientist whose research examines policy implications of demographic transformations in the United States and the international community. His current work focuses in the refinement of population estimates and projections, health inequalities and demographic consequences of Hurricane María for the population of Puerto Rico.

Will Puerto Ricans return home after Hurricane María?

Nov 18, 2017 14:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Even before this years devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics had predicted that the population of Puerto Rico would decline over the...

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