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Audrey
Dorélien
Associate Professor
234 Humphrey School
Currently reviewing Ph.D. applicants
Currently reviewing PhD applicants
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Global Policy Area
Social Policy Area
Areas of Expertise
Public health; demography; international development; data visualization; infectious diseases
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    Biography

    Audrey Dorélien is an Associate Professor in the global policy and the social policy & policy analysis areas at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota (UMN). At UMN, she is also a faculty affiliate in the Applied Economics Department, the School of Public Health, and the Minnesota Population Center, where she currently serves as the Co-Director of the Population Training Program.

    Professor Dorélien's research agenda strives to elucidate how human population dynamics and behavior intersect with environmental conditions to affect health. Her work describes demographic and health patterns and attempts to identify causal factors responsible for these patterns. The first strand of her research focuses on the effects of early life exposures (i.e., disease/nutrition/climate) on health both in the United States and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, she analyzes how human behavior and population dynamics affect the spread and severity of infectious diseases. Third, Professor Dorélien has conducted research on spatial demography/ urbanization with a focus on health and climate change vulnerability. Her research has appeared in Population Development Review, Demography, Population Health Metrics, Biodemography and Social Biology, Demographic Research, and PLoS ONE.

    Prior to joining the Humphrey School faculty she 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. She earned her PhD in Public Policy from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs with a concentration in demography from the Office of Population Research.

    Education

    PhD in Public Affairs (Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2012)

    BA in Honors Economics and Biology (Swarthmore College, 2004)

    Dorelien, A., Ramen, A., Swanson, I. & Hill, R. (2021). Analyzing the demographic, spatial, and temporal factors influencing social contact patterns in US and implications for infectious disease spread, BMC Infectious Disease, 21(1),

    Grace, K., Verdin, A., Dorélien, A., Davenport, F., Funk, C. & Husak, G. (2021). Exploring Strategies for Investigating the Mechanisms Linking Climate and Individual-Level Child Health Outcomes: An Analysis of Birth Weight in Mali, Demography, 58(2), 499-526

    Dorelien, A. & Xu, H. (2020). Estimating rural urban disparities in self-rated health in China: Impact of choice of urban definition, Demographic Research,

    Dorelien, A. (2020). Minnesota Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Survey with Implications for Modelling of Infectious Disease Transmission and Control, Survey Practice, 13(1),

    Davenport, F., Dorélien, A. & Grace, K. (2020). Investigating the linkages between pregnancy outcomes and climate in sub-Saharan Africa, Population and Environment, 41(4), 397-421

    Tymejczyk, O., Rivera, V., Peck, M., Dorélien, A., Petion, J., Seo, G., Walsh, K., Pape, J. W., Mcnairy, M., Fitzgerald, D. W., Nash, D. & Parcesepe, A. (2020). Psychological distress among a population-representative sample of residents of four slum neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Journal of Affective Disorders,

    Dorélien, A. (2019). The effect of in utero exposure to influenza on birth and infant outcomes in the US, Population and Development Review, 45(3), 489-523

    McNairy, M. L., Tymejczyk, O., Rivera, V., Seo, G., Dorélien, A., Peck, M., Petion, J., Walsh, K., Bolgrien, A., Nash, D., Pape, J. & Fitzgerald, D. W. (2019). High Burden of Non-communicable Diseases among a Young Slum Population in Haiti, Journal of Urban Health,