CSDE Committees: Executive Committee Member
CSDE Research Areas:
- Demographic Measurements and Methods
- Environments and Populations
- Health of People and Populations
In the News:
- Curran, Dorélien, and Zagheni Nominated for IUSSP Council Member Elections (09/04/2025)
- CSDE Welcomes 4 New Research Affiliates in Fall Quarter 2024 (09/26/2024)
Audrey Dorélien is CSDE’s Training Core PI and a faculty member in the University of Washington's Department of Sociology. Previously she taught at the Humphrey School for 10 years. 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, 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.