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
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
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PhD in Demography (subfields: international comparative epidemiology and computational demography), Certificate in Statistics and Machine Learning, 2024
Princeton University
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MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2017
Tufts University School of Medicine
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BS in International Relations and Biology, 2016
Tufts University