Casey Breen

Casey Breen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a Ph.D. in Demography and M.A. in Biostatistics from UC Berkeley, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford. His research combines computational demography and network-based methods to address critical questions in population health and mortality disparities, particularly in the United States.

• Key research areas: Formal Demography, Health and Mortality Disparities, Social Networks, Computational Methods

Recent work explores digital inequality, death rate estimation in humanitarian crises, and historical mortality patterns. His publications appear in top journals like Demography, American Journal of Epidemiology, and Population and Development Review.

He actively collaborates with institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Berkeley Population Sciences, and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, and participates in events such as the Population Association of America (PAA) 2025 conference.