Dr. Courtney Boen

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Courtney Boen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brown University and a Faculty Affiliate at the Population Studies and Training Center. Dr. Boen’s research focuses on uncovering the social and political forces that generate population patterns in health and mortality. Her work combines critical relational theories of inequality and insights from life course perspectives, utilizing a variety of social demographic techniques. The primary goals of her research are to provide detailed and accurate estimates of population health and longevity patterns and to interrogate the structural, institutional, and sociopolitical determinants of health inequities. Dr. Boen’s work has been published in esteemed journals including Demography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and others. Her research has received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Research Interests

Requirements for Brown University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GRE General
TOEFL
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Undergraduate degree in Economics or related field
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Specialization Notes

Department: Department of Economics