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Rising early adult mortality in the US
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and researchers from the University of Minnesota and Boston University analyzed death rates between 1999-2023. The new study, published in JAMA Network Open, found:
- For early adults, there was a large jump in the death rate between 2019 and 2021, which are considered the core pandemic years. In 2023, the death rate remained nearly 20% higher than in 2019.
- Drug-related deaths are the single largest cause of 2023 excess mortality, compared with the mortality that would have been expected had earlier trends continued.
- Other important contributing causes were a variety of natural causes, including cardiometabolic and nutritional causes, and a variety of other external causes, including transport deaths.
Research Barnraising

HOME: Health, Opportunity, Mobility and Equity in Housing
February 24 - 25, 2025 | Andersen Library
Our Research Barnraising is a 1.5 day symposium, where we aim to explore and start to build innovative research and collaborations centered around the theme of housing.
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Avelina Rivero
Dra. Avelina Rivero is a mixed-methods researcher and community-engaged scholar. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota and an Extension Specialist at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on identifying the sociocultural factors that contribute to Latina young women’s development.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Minnesota Population Center (P2C HD041023) funded through a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)