Casey Breen

Casey Breen

Graduate Student

UC Berkeley

About

I am an incoming Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford. I completed my Ph.D. in Demography at UC Berkeley supervised by Dennis Feehan and Joshua R. Goldstein.

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.

View my CV.

Interests

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

Education

  • PhD, Demography, In Progress

    UC Berkeley

  • MA, Biostatistics, 2021

    UC Berkeley

  • BA, Economics, 2016

    Pomona College

Recent News

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Feb. 2023: New publication — Mortality Modeling of Partially Observed Cohorts Using Administrative Death Records

Apr. 2023: Talk at PAA 2023 in the session “Flash: Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality.” [Slides]

Apr. 2023: Talk at PAA 2023 in the session “Flash: Open Science in Demography and Population Studies” [Slides]

Feb. 2023: New publication — Late‑Life Changes in Ethnoracial Self‑identification: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Data

Dec. 2022: New publication — Novel Estimates Reveal Subnational Heterogeneities in Disease-Relevant Contact Patterns in the United States