Casey Flather Breen

Casey Flather Breen

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of Oxford

About

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. I completed my Ph.D. in Demography and M.A. in Biostatistics at UC Berkeley.

My research develops and applies computational and demographic methods to examine questions in population health. In one line of research, I investigate mortality disparities and dynamics in the United States using large-scale administrative data. In a second line of research, I develop and apply network-based methods to sample hard-to-reach populations and estimate mortality rates in humanitarian emergencies.

My work has been published or is forthcoming in Demography, Population and Development Review, Demographic Research, and Population Research and Policy Review, among other outlets.

View my CV.

Interests

  • Social Networks
  • Health and Mortality Disparities
  • Computational Social Science

Education

  • PhD, Demography, 2023

    UC Berkeley

  • MA, Biostatistics, 2021

    UC Berkeley

  • BA, Economics, 2016

    Pomona College

Recent News

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June 2024: New paper in Population and Development Review: New Data Sources for Demographic Research.

June 2024: I co-organized a Workshop on Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development. [Program]

June 2024: I really enjoyed participating in the MORTAL Conference at Oxford and presenting on the Black-White Crossover. [Slides]

June 2024: Talk at EPC 2024 on Mapping Subnational Gender Gaps in Internet and Mobile Adoption Using Social Media Data.” [Slides]

May 2024: I very much enjoyed visiting the Population Studies Group at LSHTM and giving a talk on estimating mortality rates in humanitarian crises using the Network Survival Method.