Time Trends of Mortality and Morbidity Attributable to Pollution in Asia-Pacific Region
Seminar
Environmental issues and its harmful effects on human health have attracted attention from global public health. Human-made activities are largely responsible for causing environmental issues, which in turn impact the population. Pollution impacts demographic perspectives such as population size,…
20th Australian Population Association Conference
Conference
Population and Policy: Addressing population change The Australian Population Association and the Conference Organising Committee are looking forward to welcoming you to Canberra in November 2022 for the 20th Australian Population Association Conference. The Australian Population Association…
70th Anniversary Demography Reunion at the ANU
Alumni engagement
Reunions are a unique time to reconnect with friends, colleagues and classmates, as well as an opportunity learn how much Demography and the ANU has progressed since your last visit. Whether you graduated or work at Demography ANU currently, 10 years ago or 50 years ago, we want you to celebrate…
DEMO-ECR Symposium
Symposium
As part of this year’s Australian Population Conference in Canberra, the ANU School of Demography is organising the first DEMO-ECR symposium as a pre-conference event. The main objective of this symposium is to create a relaxed and welcoming environment where junior researchers can share their…
Dementia in Aging Populations: How can Health Claims Data Help Meet this Challenge
Seminar
Population-based observational studies using process-produced secondary data, such as health claims data, provide important information on health events. I will discuss to what extent the epidemiological measures obtained from them are a valid reflection of disease incidence. Our latest results…
Estimating Global and Country-Specific Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Seminar
Estimating the true mortality burden of COVID-19 for every country in the world is a difficult, but crucial, public health endeavor. Attributing deaths, direct or indirect, to COVID-19 is problematic. A more attainable target is the ``excess deaths'', the number of deaths in a particular…
Visualizing Human Diversity in Multiple Dimensions
Seminar
Recent migration and mobility have made human regions so diverse, in so many different ways, that conventional social science concepts and theories sometimes struggle to make sense of what is happening. For example, concepts like ‘cultural diversity’ – which were once understood in terms of large,…