Amelia Branigan is a social demographer with central interests in inequality, health, and the criminal legal system. Her current work follows three lines of inquiry. A first project considers the social consequences of variation in visible phenotype, specifically focusing on body mass and skin color, and on approaches to survey measurement of these attributes. A second project explores intersections between education, health, and the criminal legal system. Her most recent project is the NYU World Trade Center Health and Wellbeing Study, a retrospective health survey designed to produce causal estimates of the health impacts of 9/11 on survivors exposed in young adulthood and on their later-born children. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and she has published in sociology journals including Social Forces, Demography, and Social Psychology Quarterly, and in neighboring fields including criminology, public health, and pediatrics. Branigan received a BA in History and Journalism from New York University, an MA and PhD in sociology from Northwestern University, and completed her postdoctoral training at the Cornell Population Center. She is a faculty associate of the Maryland Population Research Center.