ANDREW NOYMER
Assistant Professor, Sociology, UC–Irvine
Scientific Staff, IIASA Health and Global Change Project

noymer@uci.edu
phone: (949) 824–7277

PhD, Sociology, UC–Berkeley, 2006
MSc, Medical Demography, London School of
      Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,
      University of London, 1996
AB, Biology, Harvard College, 1995

Research Interests: Health and Mortality, especially selective mortality and multi-cause interaction; the 1918 Influenza Pandemic; Demography; Methods; Mathematical Sociology; Economic Sociology.

• Andrew Noymer (2007) "Contesting the cause and severity of the black death: A review essay." Population and Development Review 33(3):616–627. PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2001) "The transmission and persistence of 'urban legends': sociological application of age-structured epidemic models." Journal of Mathematical Sociology 25(3):299–323. (Best paper prize, Mathematical Sociology Section, American Sociology Association, 2002) PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2001) "Mortality selection and sample selection: a comment on Beckett." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42(3):326–327. PDF

• Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne (2000) "The 1918 Influenza epidemic's effects on sex differentials in mortality in the United States." Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne. Population and Development Review 26(3):565–581. PDF

• Juliane Baron and Andrew Noymer (2005) Plans to fight pandemic flu must focus on senior citizens. Chicago Sun-Times, 5 November. PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2003) You might be infected — with an urban legend. Los Angeles Times, 28 December, p. M5. PDF

• Andrew Noymer (2004) Algorithm (pp. 9–10). The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods.

• Andrew Noymer and Michel Garenne (2003) Long-term effects of the 1918 'Spanish' influenza epidemic on sex differentials of mortality in the USA: exploratory findings from historical data (Chapter 13, pp. 202–217). The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: New Perspectives. (Studies in the Social History of Medicine, 12) Routledge.
  

• Andrew Noymer (2003) Influenza (pp. 540–542) and Tuberculosis (pp. 946–948). Encyclopedia of Population. Macmillan Reference.

• The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, by John M. Barry. Population and Development Review 30(3):537–539 (2004) PDF
  
• Island Epidemics, by Andrew D. Cliff, Peter Haggett, and Matthew R. Smallman-Raynor. Journal of Economic History 62(3):916–918 (2002) PDF
  
• Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it, by Gina Kolata. Population and Development Review 27(1):187–191 (2001) PDF

• Mean age of death (PDF)
• Shortening Long UIDs (PDF)
• 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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