Publications highlights

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Monday 20 October 2025
2025 has been a remarkably productive year for the ANU School of Demography: Our academic community has contributed a wealth of research through numerous articles and publications, advancing knowledge across a wide range of demographic topics.
A selection of recent works that highlight the depth and diversity of our community is provided below:
- Spatial Inequities in Women's Health: The Global Impact of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuels by Pattheera (Paire) Somboonsin and Bernard Baffour (ANU).
- Reproductive milestones and oral contraceptive timing predict late-life mortality, by Dr Saul Newman (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing) and Professor Emerita Heather Booth (ANU).
- Education shapes episodic memory measurement via test specifications: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, by Yizhou Chen and James O'Donnell (ANU).
- Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy, Wen Su and Vladimir Canudas-Romo (ANU), and Mike Hollingshaus (University of Utah).
- The burden of air pollution (PM2.5) in subnational Australian life expectancy by Pattheera Somboonsin and Vladimir Canudas-Romo (ANU), Juthasinee Thanyapraneedkul (Thammasat University) and Ivan C. Hanigan (Curtin University, WA).
- Modelling the age and sex profiles of net international migration, by James Raymer, Qing Guan and Tianyu Shen (ANU) and Sara Hertog and Patrick Gerland (United Nations Population Division).
- Decomposing fertility rates–how are changing relationship patterns and increasing singlehood contributing to fertility decline? by Anna Reimondos, Bethan Allen, Edith Gray & Ann Evans (ANU).
- Parental imprisonment, childhood behavioral problems, and adolescent and young adult cardiometabolic risk: results from a prospective Australian birth cohort study by Michael E. Roettger, Jolene Tan, Brian Houle (ANU), Jake M. Najman (University of Queensland) and Tara McGee (Griffith University).
- The role of education composition in shaping the burden of obesity and diabetes in Indonesia: a microsimulation-based projection study, by Lilipramawanty K. Liwin, Tianyu Shen and Collin F. Payne (ANU).