About Me

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle and an affiliate student of the Max Planck School of Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.

I think of myself as a social demographer and quantitative medical sociologist whose work lays at the intersection of population health inequities and healthcare access. My research interests and experience also include the nexus between population dynamics and environment, and maternal and child health.

I have a MSc in Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and BS in Public Health from the University of Colorado Denver.

My dissertation is centered on the evolving healthcare access before and after the desegregation of American hosptials during the civil rights era. I use quantitative and demographic methods to understand how the social and political sphere affected healthcare access and health trajectories.

Peer-Reviewed Publications & Book Chapters

Reosti, A., Hess, C., Allen, C., & Crowder, K. (2024). “Mom-and-Pop” Landlords and Regulatory Backlash: A Seattle Case Study. Socius, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241296169

Almquist, Zack W., Courtney Allen, and Ihsan Kahveci. Book Chapter in Computational Demography and Health. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.13056 (2023). https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13056

Allen, Courtney K., Shireen Assaf, Sorrel Namaste, and Rukundo K. Benedict. 2023.“Estimates and trends of zero vegetable or fruit consumption among children aged 6–23 months in 64 countries”. PLOS Global Public Health 3(6):e0001662. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001662.

MacQuarrie, Kerry LD, Courtney Allen, Alison Gemmill. “Demographic and Fertility Characteristics of Contraceptive Clusters in Burundi.” Studies in Family Planning. 2021. 52(4), pp.415-438. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12179 Among TOP DOWNLOADED PAPERS in this journal for 2021!!!

Wang, Wenjuan, Lindsay Mallick, Courtney Allen, and Thomas Pullum. “Effective coverage of facility delivery in Bangladesh, Haiti, Malawi, Nepal, Senegal, and Tanzania.” PlOS one. 2019. 14(6): e0217853. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217853

Mallick, Lindsay, Jennifer Yourkavitch, and Courtney Allen. “Trends, determinants, and newborn mortality related to thermal care and umbilical cord care practices in South Asia.” BMC Pediatrics 2019. 19: 248. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1616-2

Awards and Research Support

2024 NIH T32 Data Science Training in Demography and Population Health Training Grant, $28,224

2024 Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Travel Award, $1000

2023 Spring Research Fund Award, University of Washington, Sociology, $500

2020 – 2021 Top Scholar Fellowship, University of Washington, $21,924

Teaching

Instructor of Record – Population and Society

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