My research agenda centers on how human population dynamics and behavior intersect with the environment to affect health. My work falls into three main research strands. First, I examine the impacts of climate change and infectious disease exposure on maternal and child health. Second, I analyze how human behavior and population dynamics affect the spread and severity of infectious diseases. Third, I study spatial demography and urbanization, with a focus on health and climate change vulnerability. My different research strands highlight the interdisciplinary, data intensive, and methodologically innovative nature of my work.
Papers
Population and Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Dorélien, Audrey M., Sebastien Ballesteros, and Bryan T. Grenfell. Impact of birth seasonality on dynamics of acute immunizing infections in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS One 8, no. 10 (2013): e75806.
- Audrey M. Dorélien, Alisha Simon, Sarah Hagge, Kathleen Thiede Call, Eva Enns, and Shalini Kulasingam. Minnesota Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Survey with Implications for Modelling of Infectious Disease Transmission and Control. Survey Practice (2020) 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.29115/SP-2020-0007.
- Dorélien, A.M., Ramen, A. and Swanson, I., Hill, Rachel. 2021. Analyzing the demographic, spatial, and temporal factors influencing social contact patterns in US and implications for infectious disease spread. BMC Infect Dis 21(1): 1009. doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06610-w
- Winner of IPUMS Time Use Research Award for 2021 Best Published Paper
Seasonality/Climate and Implications of Health
- Grace, K., A. Verdin, A. Dorélien, F. Davenport, G. Husak, C. Funk. 2020. Exploring strategies for investigating the mechanisms linking climate and individual-level child health outcomes: an analysis of birth weight in Mali. Demography 58 (2):499-526. doi.org/10.1215/00703370-8977484
- Frank Davenport, Audrey M. Dorélien, Kathryn Grace. 2020. Investigating the linkages between pregnancy outcomes and climate in sub-Saharan Africa. Population and Environment 41:397–421 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-020-00342-w
- Dorélien, Audrey M. 2019. The effects of in utero exposure to influenza on fetal and infant outcomes in the United States. Population and Development Review
- Dorélien, Audrey. Birth seasonality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Demographic Research 34 (2016): 761-796.
- Dorélien, Audrey M., Sebastien Ballesteros, and Bryan T. Grenfell. Impact of birth seasonality on dynamics of acute immunizing infections in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS One 8, no. 10 (2013): e75806.
- Dorélien, Audrey M. Effects of Birth Month on Child Health and Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa. Biodemography and Social Biology 61, no. 2 (2015): 209-230.
Urbanization and Spatial Demography
- Dorélien, Audrey and Hongwei Xu. Estimating rural urban disparities in self-rated health in China: Impact of choice of urban definition and reporting heterogeneity. Demographic Research 43(49): 1429-1460.
- Dorélien, Audrey, Deborah Balk, and Megan Todd. What Is urban? Comparing a satellite view with the Demographic and Health Surveys. Population and Development Review 39, no. 3 (2013): 413-439.
- Tatem, Andrew J., Susana Adamo, Nita Bharti, Clara R. Burgert, Marcia Castro, Audrey Dorelien, Gunter Fink et al. Mapping populations at risk: improving spatial demographic data for infectious disease modeling and metric derivation. Population health metrics 10, no. 1 (2012): 1.
- Balk, D., Montogomery, M. R., McGranahan, G., Kim, D., Todd, M., Buettner, T., and Dorélien, A. 2009. Mapping Urban Settlements and the Risks of Climate Change in Africa, Asia, and South America. In G. Martine, J.-M. Guzman, G. McGranahan, D. Schensul, & C. Tacoli (Eds.), Population Dynamics and Climate Change (pp. 80-103). New York: United Nations Population Fund and International Institute for the Environment and Development.
Urban Health
- Olga Tymejczyk,Vanessa Rivera, Mireille Peck, Audrey Dorelien, Jacky Petion, Grace Seo, Kathleen F Walsh, Jean W. Pape, Margaret Mcnairy, Daniel W. Fitzgerald, Denis Nash, Angela Parcesepe. 2020. Psychological distress among a population-representative sample of residents of four slum neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Journal of Affective Disorders 263:241-245
- McNairy, M.L., Tymejczyk, O., Rivera, V., Seo, G., Dorélien, A., Peck, M., Petion, J., Walsh, K., Bolgrien, A., Nash, D. and Pape, J. 2019. High Burden of Non-communicable Diseases among a Young Slum Population in Haiti. Journal of Urban Health, pp.1-16.
- Tymejczyk O, McNairy ML, Petion JS, Rivera VR, Dorélien A, Peck M, Seo G, Walsh KF, Fitzgerald DW, Peck RN, Joshi A, Pape JW, Nash D. 2018. Hypertension prevalence and risk factors among residents of four slum communities: population-representative findings from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Journal of Hypertension. PMID:30308598
Other
- Audrey Dorélien. 2008. Population’s Role in the Current Food Crisis: Focus on East Africa. Population Reference Bureau web article
- Jason Bremner, and Audrey Dorélien. 2008. Forest Conservation and Population Growth among Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon. Population Reference Bureau web article