Courtney Boen

Courtney Boen is an Assistant Professor and Axilrod Faculty Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania; a Research Associate in the Penn Population Studies Center and Population Aging Research Center; a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics; and an Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration. Her research combines critical and relational theories of race and racism, insights from the life course perspective, and a variety of social demographic techniques to: 1) provide detailed and accurate estimates of racialized, socioeconomic, and legal status inequities in health and aging; and 2) interrogate and reveal the structural, institutional, and sociopolitical determinants of population health inequality. Dr. Boen’s research has been published in a number of journals, including Demography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science and Medicine, The Journals of Gerontology, Biodemography and Social Biology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Demographic Research, the Journal of Aging and Health, and Health Affairs, among others. Her work has received funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.