John Cleland BA MA FBA

Professor of Medical Demography

Room 50/204, Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 207 299 4621

Fax: +44 (0) 207 299 4637

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Affiliated to: PSD.

Disciplines: Demography.

Research areas: Sexual and reproductive health.

Other keywords: Contraception, Child mortality, Survey methods, fertility theories.

Background

My career has involved a long spell with the World Fertility Survey and shorter periods with the International Statistical Institute in Netherlands and with the Medical Department in Fiji. Joined the School in 1988 and appointed Professor of Medical Demography in 1993. I am currently nearing the end of my presidency of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (2006-9).

Teaching

I teach on Population Studies in term 1 and on the study unit ' Family Planning Programmes' and 'Population, Poverty and Environment' in Term 2. I also undertake a fair amount of overseas teaching and currently supervise three doctoral students.

Research

My longstanding research interests concern fertility, family planning and child health in developing countries. Current research studies include HIV prevention, contraceptive failure and discontinuation, and the sexual and reproductive health of young people

Selected publications

Abouzahr, C.; Cleland, J.; Coullare, F.; MacFarlane, S.B.; Notzon, F.C.; Setel, P.; Szreter, S. Who counts? 4 - The way forward Lancet, 2007; 370(9601):1791-1799
Cleland, J.; Ali, M.M. Sexual abstinence, contraception, and condom use by young African women: a secondary analysis of survey data Lancet, 2006; 368(9549):1788-1793
Ali, M. M.; Cleland, J. Sexual and reproductive behaviour among single women aged 15-24 in eight Latin American countries: a comparative analysis Social Science & Medicine, 2005; :1175
Cleland, J.; Ali, M.M.; Reproductive consequences of contraceptive failure in 19 developing countries. Obstet Gynecol , 2004; 104 (2 ):314-20
Cleland, J.; Boerma, J.T.; Carael, M.; Weir, S.S.; Monitoring sexual behaviour in general populations: a synthesis of lessons of the past decade. Sex Transm Infect, 2004; 80 Suppl 2:ii1-ii7
Cleland, J.; Bernstein, S.; Ezeh, A.; Faundes, A.; Glasier, A.; Innis, J. Sexual and Reproductive Health 3 - Family planning: the unfinished agenda Lancet, 2006; 368(9549):1810-1827

Full publications listing (since 2001)