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 is concerned with environmental early life exposures — or the question of how the natural environment shapes health and social stratification at birth, the first years of life, and throughout the life-course. I aim to understand the social and biological mechanisms that underlie climate-population relationships and their role in (re-)producing social stratification. Moreover, my work explores how we can best measure and model environmental exposures across a range of diverse societies. 

My ongoing work focuses on the impact of prenatal temperature exposure on fertility, sex ratios at birth, antenatal care, and infant mortality, and demographic and health survey data infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries. My research is published in PNAS, Population Development Review, and others.

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.