Audrey Dorélien

Associate Professor
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Contact Information

Savery 230
Office Hours
By appointment

Biography

Ph.D., Public Affairs focus on Demography, Princeton University, 2012
B.A., Economics and Biology, Swarthmore College, 2004

Research overview:  My research agenda centers on how human population dynamics and behavior intersect with the environment to affect health. I describe demographic and health patterns and attempt to identify causal factors responsible for these patterns. My work falls into three main research strands. First, I examine the impacts of early life exposures (i.e., climate/disease/nutrition) on health both in the United States and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, I analyze how human behavior and population dynamics affect the spread and severity of infectious diseases. Third, I study spatial demography and urbanization, with a focus on health and climate change vulnerability. My research has been published in Population Development Review, Demography, Population Health Metrics, Biodemography and Social Biology, Demographic Research, and PLoS ONE.

Biography: I am currently an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Washington (UW). I am also the Training Core PI at the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE) at UW. Previously, I spent ten years at the University of Minnesota where I was first an assistant then associate professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Prior to joining UMN, I was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health. I completed my PhD in Public Affairs in 2012 from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs with a concentration in demography from the Office of Population Research.

Affiliations

Professional Affiliations
Population Association of America (PAA), International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations (IUSSP), Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), Population Environment Network (PERN), Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS), Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study Network (MIDAS)
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