posts – Dennis M. Feehan

PAA 2024

I’m looking forward to visiting Ohio this spring! My colleagues and I had several papers accepted, including

Talk at Harvard

I had a great visit to Boston, where I gave a talk as part of the Harvard Social Demography Seminar. My talk focused on validating survey-based methods for estimating adult…

Talk at University of Maryland

Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Maryland Population Research Center. I presented some not-yet-published work on validating methods for estimating adult mortality based on…

Faculty Director of D-Lab

This fall, I’m starting a new role as Faculty Director of Berkeley’s D-Lab. D-Lab is an amazing organization focused on data science education, consulting, and research with…

Formal Demography Workshop

Just finished the week-long Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, which I co-organized with Josh Goldstein and Michelle Poulin. The focus this year was fertility. I learned…

Paper in Epidemics

We have a new paper just published in Epidemics. This study combines BICS contact survey data with a disease model to understand the implications of different vaccine…

PAA 2023

I had a great time at PAA 2023 in New Orleans. I gave a talk on an in-progress project on estimating adult death rates from different social relationships as part of Session…