Marko Galjak- PhD
- Research Associate at Institute of Social Sciences
Marko Galjak
- PhD
- Research Associate at Institute of Social Sciences
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Introduction
I am a multidisciplinary researcher at the intersection of demography, public health, computational social science, AI, ethics, and philanthropy. My research portfolio spans diverse areas, including premature mortality, COVID-19, demographic challenges in Serbia and the EU, and the application of artificial intelligence in social sciences. Beyond academia, I serve as the Director of Technology at Catalyst Balkans, where I lead initiatives in AI, Research, and Digital Transformation.
Current institution
Education
January 2016 - January 2017
November 2014 - July 2022
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography
Field of study
- Demography
October 2013 - October 2014
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography
Field of study
- Demography
Publications
Publications (30)
As census data play a significant role in analyzing population changes in Serbia makes this study important given the lack of a statistical population register and a series of demographic, socio-economic and other challenges facing Serbian society. The content is conceived so to bring into particular focus the regional aspects of demographic proces...
Since 2014, Catalyst Balkans has been amassing philanthropy data across seven Western Balkan countries in the Giving Balkans database. Traditionally reliant on press clippings, the manual categorization of news became increasingly cumbersome. Catalyst Balkans implemented AI solutions to remedy this, adopting a hybrid model: automating specific task...
Understanding public perceptions of energy sources is essential for successful policy formulation. Our study explores the Serbian public's attitudes toward different types of energy, taking into account NIMBY (“Not In My Back Yard") sentiments, nationalist orientation, and pro-Russian attitudes. A correlational cross-sectional design utilized an on...
This study examines excess mortality patterns in 32 European countries during the first three years of the pandemic, offering insights into the pandemic’s toll on each country. Using data from national statistical offices, we calculated monthly excess mortality for 2020–2022. Time series decomposition was employed for trend analysis, followed by cl...
Serbia, with its already aged population, is facing demographic challenges that are projected to result in even older population in the following 30 years. The main reasons of this frightening outlook are low fertility rates, emigration, and premature mortality. This chapter provides an in-depth overview of political response to these challenges. T...
Premature mortality, defined as death occurring before a predetermined chronological age, is a significant public health challenge in Serbia, compounded by an aging population , high rates of non-communicable diseases, and healthcare system challenges. This study introduces a novel indicator, the Median Age of Years of Life Lost (MeAYPLL), to asses...
Researching mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging due to methodological inconsistencies and the limited availability of vital statistics data. At the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organization recommended daily data publication to inform policy response, but these data were often poor. Final data on COVID-19 deat...
Purpose:
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have scrambled to set up data collection and dissemination pipelines for various online datasets. This study aims to evaluate the reliability of the preliminary COVID-19 mortality data from Serbia, which has been included in major COVID-19 databases and utilized for research purposes wor...
Smrtnost mladih u Srbiji je problem koji se često zanemaruje. U radu se kvantifikuje preveremeni mortalitet u Srbiji i to ukupan preveremeni mortalitet, kao i mortalitet izazvan pandemijom COVID-19 i aerozagađenjem sitnim PM2.5 česticama. Rezultati pokazuju da Srbija izgubi preko pola miliona godina potencijalnog života godišnje. Aerozagađenje PM2....
The present chapter focuses on fertility and mortality problems as the two big demographic challenges facing Serbia. The trend of the average number of live births to women who were past the reproductive age in 2011, considered by age cohorts, indicates an early below-replacement fertility and a long period in which the number of live births per wo...
The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causes the systemic disease COVID-19, which killed more people in a few months than all infectious diseases together in this century. COVID-19 was one of the leading causes of death in 2020 in many countries (according to the preliminary data). By applying the demographic method to final mortality data for 2020, we can gi...
Serbia is experiencing a massive number of deaths due to COVID-19. One way to express this mortality is by measuring the years of potential life lost to this disease. This paper looks at the cost of the pandemic in 2020 to premature deaths in Serbia. The final data on mortality in 2020 in Serbia provided by the Statistical Office of the Republic of...
The paper represents an empirical study of public attitudes towards moral bioenhancement. Moral bioenhance-ment implies the improvement of moral dispositions, i.e. an increase in the moral value of the actions or character of a moral agent. The views of bioethicists and scientists on this topic are present in the ongoing debate, but not the view of...
The 2020 pandemic came at a huge demographic cost, particularly regarding the
increase in mortality. In this paper we examine excess deaths in Serbia and
34 other European countries in 2020. Methodological inconsistencies and big
differences in how COVID-19 deaths were recorded across different countries
make it difficult to make any cross-country...
Cross-country philanthropy research is problematic because of cultural, economic and political differences. The paper proposes an alternative approach of cross-country comparison by looking at the networks formed by donors and beneficiaries. Data on giving from local sources in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and...
Teorije grafova i analiza društvenih mreža se sve češće koristi u različitim naukama za analizu i vizuelizaciju podataka. Prebacivanjem fokusa sa entiteta na veze koje entiteti imaju među sobom nudi potpuno novu dimenziju za istraživanje, a ta dimenzija se često previđa. Izlažu se dva primera primene teorija grafova. U prvom se analizira interakcij...
The goal was to examine demographic differences between former communist
regions and other regions of the EU. Besides providing a regional overview of
EU’s demographic differences, we question whether the subnational approach
offers any new insights into the East-West divide. This cross-sectional study
was conducted on 1,155 EU’s NUTS3 regions from...
Serbia is faced with many demographic challenges, and one of them is a relatively high mortality, especially the avoidable mortality. The clearest example of successful interventions to lower the mortality is the one which took place in a province of Finland called North Karelia between 1972 and 1977. A big campaign, with goal to lower the cardiova...
Age structure of a population, representing the final result of all the demographic processes, tells a unique story which incorporates not only the main demographic components, but also its history, cultural and political characteristics of the population. Through its history the Balkan Peninsula has been alluring to all kinds of demographic resear...
State of mortality differs across members of the European Union. That state of mortality can be represented using a couple of different measures. In this article the state of mortality across the EU and Serbia is compared using standardized amenable mortality rate. The advantages and disadvantages of this measure are demonstrated. Also the correlat...
