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Public health; demography; international development; data visualization; infectious diseases
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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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Public Affairs, Princeton University
… → 2012
BA, Honors Economics and Biology, Swarthmore College
… → 2004
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Projects
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Midwest Disease Modeling and Analytics Preparedness Center (MDAP)
Enns, E. (PI), Berman, J. (CoI), Craft, M. E. (CoI), Dorelien, A. M. (CoI), Drawz, P. E. (CoI), Duarte, H. (CoI), Dudley, A. (CoI), Johnson, S. (CoI), Kulasingam, S. L. (CoI), Kuntz, K. M. (CoI), Pendleton, K. (CoI), Searle, K. (CoI), Ward, C. (CoI), Zang, X. (CoI) & Zhang, R. (CoI)
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
9/30/23 → 9/29/27
Project: Research project
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International Population and Agricultural Census Data for Environmental Health Research
Kugler, T. A. (PI), Cleveland, L. L. (CoI), Dorelien, A. M. (CoI), Grace, K. L. (CoI), King, M. L. (CoI), Manson, S. M. (CoI), Schroeder, J. P. (CoI) & Searle, K. (CoI)
NIH NATL INST OF ENVIRON HEALTH SCIENCES
12/23/22 → 10/31/25
Project: Research project
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Integrated Demographic and Health Survey Data for Population Health Research
Boyle, E. H. (PI), King, M. L. (CoI), Assaad, R. A. (Other Role), Dorelien, A. M. (Other Role), Grace, K. L. (Other Role), Levison, D. (Other Role), Sarkar, S. (Other Role) & Sobek, M. (Other Role)
NIH NAT'L INST OF CHILD HEALTH/HUMAN DEV
7/8/22 → 4/30/27
Project: Research project
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Integrated Global Data on Child Health and Development
Boyle, E. H. (PI), Assaad, R. A. (CoI), Dorelien, A. M. (CoI), Jeffers, K. M. (CoI), King, M. L. (CoI), Levison, D. (CoI) & Sobek, M. (CoI)
NIH NAT'L INST OF CHILD HEALTH/HUMAN DEV
9/1/20 → 5/31/25
Project: Research project
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Demography as a Field: Where We Came From and Where We Are Headed
Pesando, L. M., Dorélien, A., St-Denis, X. & Santos, A., Sep 2023, In: Canadian Studies in Population. 50, 3, 4.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Quantifying social contact patterns in Minnesota during stay-at-home social distancing order
Dorélien, A. M., Venkateswaran, N., Deng, J., Searle, K., Enns, E., Alarcon Espinoza, G. & Kulasingam, S., Dec 2023, In: BMC infectious diseases. 23, 1, 324.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Scopus citations -
Analyzing the demographic, spatial, and temporal factors influencing social contact patterns in U.S. and implications for infectious disease spread
Dorélien, A. M., Ramen, A., Swanson, I. & Hill, R., Dec 2021, In: BMC infectious diseases. 21, 1, 1009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access9 Scopus citations -
Exploring strategies for investigating the mechanisms linking climate and individual-level child health outcomes: An analysis of birth weight in mali
Grace, K., Verdin, A., Dorélien, A., Davenport, F., Funk, C. & Husak, G., Apr 1 2021, In: Demography. 58, 2, p. 499-526 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access15 Scopus citations -
Estimating rural–urban disparities in self-rated health in China: Impact of choice of urban definition
Dorélien, A. & Xu, H., Jan 2020, In: Demographic Research. 43, p. 1429-1460 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access10 Scopus citations
Press/Media
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The Road Ahead: Charting the coronavirus pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
9/22/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment or Interview