Dr. Jordan D. Klein

Research Scientist

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Department of Digital and Computational Demography

Laboratories of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being, and Migration and Mobility

Bio

Jordan Klein is a demographer, social epidemiologist, and quantitative and computational social scientist. His current work focuses on understanding the drivers of the spatio-temporal evolution of mortality disparities, especially in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

Interests

Substantive: Mortality, migration, social epidemiology, climate & population, re-/emerging infectious disease, political economy of health, historical demography & epidemiology
Data: Official statistics, civil & vital registration, surveys, digital trace, geospatial
Methods: Statistics, machine learning, mechanistic modeling & simulation, time series & panel models, non-parametric models, demographic measurement & estimation, causal inference

Education

PhD in Demography (subfields: international comparative epidemiology and computational demography), Certificate in Statistics and Machine Learning, 2024

Princeton University
MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017

Tufts University School of Medicine
BS in International Relations and Biology, 2016

Tufts University