I build statistical models to estimate the disparities in child and adolescence mortality rates across countries over time.
Fengqing Chao
Research Scientist
My research interests include statistical demography, global health, Bayesian modeling, and time series analysis.
Publications
Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
(2023).
Sex differences in mortality among children, adolescents, and young people aged 0-24 years: a systematic assessment of national, regional, and global trends from 1990 to 2021.
Lancet Global Health, 11(10) e1519-e1530.
Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
(2023).
Web Appendix for Sex differences in mortality among children, adolescents, and youth aged 0-24: A systematic assessment of national, regional, and global trends from 1990 to 2021.
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Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
(2023).
Sex differences in survival chances among children, adolescents, and youth ages 0–24: A systematic assessment of national, regional, and global trends from 1990 to 2021.
Fengqing Chao
(2021).
“Sex Ratio of Mortality Rate Estimation Using a Bayesian Modeling Approach.
In Joint Statistical Meeting.
Fengqing Chao
(2020).
Estimating and Projecting Disparities in Pre- and Post-natal Survival using Bayesian Methods.
In Yale-NUS Research Seminar.
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Jon Pedersen, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
(2020).
A Systematic Assessment of National Under-5 Mortality Rate by Place of Residence for 109 Countries.
In PAA.
United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
(2019).
Explanatory Notes: Child mortality trend series to 2018.
In United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Lucia Hug, Leontine Alkema
(2018).
National and regional under-5 mortality rate by economic status for low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic assessment.
The Lancet Global Health, 6(5) e535–e547.
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Lucia Hug, Leontine Alkema
(2018).
Web appendix: National and regional under-5 mortality rate by economic status for low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic assessment.
United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
(2018).
Explanatory Notes: Child mortality trend series to 2017.
In United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Leontine Alkema
(2017).
A Systematic Assessment of National, and Regional Under-Five Mortality Rate by Wealth Quintiles and Identification of Countries with Outlying Levels Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Time Series Model.
In PAA.
PDF Project Poster Source Document DOI PAA conference website
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Cheryl C. Sawyer
(2014).
National, regional, and global sex ratios of infant, child, and under-5 mortality and identification of countries with outlying ratios: a systematic assessment.
The Lancet Global Health, 2(9) e521–e530.
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Cheryl C. Sawyer
(2014).
Supplementary appendix: National, regional, and global sex ratios of infant, child, and under-5 mortality and identification of countries with outlying ratios: a systematic assessment.
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Cheryl C. Sawyer
(2014).
Gender Differences in Infant and Child Mortality: Estimation of Sex-Specific Mortality and an Assessment of Excess Female Deaths.
In PAA.
United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
(2013).
Estimation method for child mortality Used in: Level and Trends of Child mortality - Report 2013.
In United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.