Jasmin Abdel Ghany

I am a Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology (at Nuffield College, University of Oxford) and an Associate Member of Oxford's Department of Sociology and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. 

My research focuses on environmental impacts on socioeconomic attainment, fertility, and health. 

I am interested in how environmental exposures throughout the life-course shape these outcomes unequally among social groups, ultimately reproducing social stratification, even at birth. I aim to uncover the social and biological mechanisms that underlie climate-population relationships. Moreover, my work explores how we can best measure and model environmental impacts across a range of diverse societies. 

My recent research focuses on the impact of prenatal temperature exposure on fertility, sex ratios at birth, antenatal care, and infant mortality and discusses how we can make global health data infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries more equitable. My work has been published in PNAS, Population and Development Review, and the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research.

During my doctoral studies, I was a student at Oxford's Nuffield Department of Population Health and the Department of Sociology and an active member of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research's IMPRS-PHDS Research School.