Jasmin Abdel Ghany

I am a 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. I received my PhD in 2025 at the University of Oxford, where I was based at the 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 International Research School. 

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

My work uncovers how environmental exposures impact socioeconomic and health outcomes unequally between social groups. Ultimately, I study how the environment drives social stratification - from birth and beyond. To do so, I use social survey and registry data and apply causal inference methods, with a keen interest in how we can best measure and model environmental impacts across diverse societies. An important goal of my research is to parse out the pathways that link the environment with social and health outcomes, including both socio-behavioral and biological pathways. 

In my doctoral dissertation, I showed that extreme heat has consequences for who survives to birth and that these adverse impacts are unevenly distributed among social groups. More recently, I am using this understanding to investigate how extreme heat in the early-life period and at later ages has lasting impacts on socioeconomic attainment.  

My work has been published in PNAS, Population and Development Review, and the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research and covered internationally in the media, including radio, podcasts, and news.

I am co-chair of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Climate and Environmental Demography and a steering committee member of the EAPS Working Group on Environmental Demography. Through these working groups, we aim to strengthen research networks internationally, build capacity for environment-population scholarship, and advance the field with rigorous, interdisciplinary evidence.