Understanding parent and child mental health outcomes and the potential of family-centred interventions in HIV epidemic settings in Africa
Seminar
Africa is at the centre of the global HIV epidemic, and South Africa is one of the most heavily affected countries with one of the largest HIV treatment programmes in the world. The success of prevention and treatment in South Africa has led to large numbers of HIV-infected parents surviving to…
How Demographers Reduce Fertility in Indonesia
Seminar
Demographers are trained to be sceptical about their data. Over the past five decades, huge institutions have grown with claims to have gold plated measures of fertility and mortality rates, and each year new wall-charts and websites emerge to justify league tables of national development or…
Visualisation Workshop Series
Seminar
Impact assessment of organisational interventions on Mental Health systems for evidence-informed policy design. (A collaboration betwen the ANU's Centre for Mental Health Research, RSPH, CHM; School of Demography, CASS and the Research School of Computer Science, CECCS.)
Uncertainty in migration forecasting – data, methods and challenges
Seminar
International migration flows are considered the most difficult demographic component to forecast and, for that reason, models for forecasting migration are few and relatively undeveloped. This is worrying because, in developed societies, international migration is often the most influential…
Postgraduate Information Evening - November 2018
Advisory session
Whether you are an experienced professional looking for a career change, or just finished your degree and are thinking about further study, you are invited to learn more about postgraduate study opportunities in demography during the ANU Postgraduate Information Evening. This is an expo style…
Mapping the distribution of maternal health and service delivery in West Africa
Seminar
Improvement in maternal and new born health in developing countries has been a major priority in public health since the 1980s. In spite of efforts to increase access to reproductive health services and reduce maternal mortality, maternal health is still poor in most developing countries.…
Population and Labour Force Prospects for Australia
Lecture
Please join us for this Public Lecture presented by Professor Peter McDonald, University of Melbourne. Australia’s Permanent Migration planning level has remained unchanged for the past eight years under both Labor and Coalition Governments. This planning level is based on the impact that…