Aja Sutton, PhD, Contributing Writer

Portland State University
Portland, OR

Dr. Aja Sutton (pronounced /ˈeɪʒə/; she/her) is a computational social scientist, health geographer, and demographer. Her work focuses on the social ecologies of human health: the ways lived environments, group- and individual-level behaviour, and population characteristics interact, drive, and contribute to population-level health phenomena. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Washington (UW). Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Population Research Center (PRC) at Portland State University, Portland, OR. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at Stanford University in the Human Evolutionary Ecology and Health Lab. Her previous training in history and bioarchaeology has provided me with a unique perspective on human social systems, behaviour and health over time. She grew up between rural Ontario and Toronto, Canada, and lives with her partner in Seattle, Washington. She loves asking big questions, answering them with Big Data, long-distance walking holidays, and knitting up a storm.

You can read more about her here.