Jasmin Abdel Ghany is a Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology (at Nuffield College, University of Oxford) and an Associate Member of the Department of Sociology and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science in Oxford.
Her research is concerned with environmental early life exposures and their role for social inequalities and stratification. A central interest is to understand how the natural environment shapes health and social stratification at birth and throughout the life-course.
Jasmin's existing work focuses on the impact of prenatal temperature exposure on fertility, reproductive health, and infant well-being. Here, she aims to uncover the social and biological mechanisms that underlie climate-population relationships and their role in (re-)producing social stratification. Moreover, her work makes important advances to explore how we can best measure and model environmental exposures across a range of diverse societies.
During her doctoral studies, Jasmin 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.
Before pursuing graduate studies, she contributed to anti-poverty and sustainable development campaigns in international development, policy and advocacy, and large-scale data collection organisations.
Research interests: demography; environment and climate change; early life exposures; fertility and reproductive health; population health; social stratification
