Emily Treleaven

Dr. Treleaven is a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Research. As a demographer and social epidemiologist, she studies health and mortality in early childhood. Specifically, she studies the mechanisms through which family and community context shape health outcomes in early childhood, and how health system characteristics affect children’s health and healthcare utilization. This includes how families make decisions and investments related to young children’s health, particularly when facing economic insecurity. In collaborative projects, she also designs, implements, and evaluates interventions related to maternal, newborn, and child health. Across her work, Dr. Treleaven has developed and tested novel survey measures and strategies to improve measurement of health and mortality in early childhood. She analyzes complex survey and panel data to study these topics, implementing advanced epidemiologic, statistical, and econometric methods, as well as geospatial/GIS analysis.