Ian Timæus MA MSc PhD

Professor of Demography

Room 49/201, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7299 4689

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Affiliated to: PSD.

Disciplines: Demography.

Research areas: Demography, Health inequalities, HIV/AIDS, Social and structural determinants of health.

Other keywords: adult mortality, burden of disease.

Background

I started my career in the software industry but have worked in the Centre for Population Studies since 1980. My first degree is in social anthropology and I like to think of myself as a social scientist, although most of my work is in technical demography.

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Teaching

I am responsible for the taught course module on Population, Poverty and Environment. I also teach on the modules on Population Dynamics and Projections and Analysing Survey and Population Data.

Research

Research interests include methods for measuring adult mortality in developing countries, demographic and poverty dynamics, the social and demographic impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the demography of sub-Saharan Africa more generally, in particular that of South Africa.

Selected publications

Timaeus, I.M.; Moultrie, T.A. On postponement and birth intervals Population and Development Review, 2008; 34(3):483-510
Timaeus, I.M.; Boler, T.; Father figures: the progress at school of orphans in South Africa. AIDS, 2007; 21 Suppl 7:S83-93
Bradshaw, D.; Timaeus, I.M. Levels and trends of adult mortality in 'Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa' Jamison, D.T.; Feachem, R.G.; Makgoba, M.W.; Bos, E.R.; Baingana, F.K.; Hofman, K.J.; Rogo, K.O.(2006) World Bank (Washington, D.C.) :31-42
Grassly, N.C.; Timaeus, I.M.; Methods to Estimate the Number of Orphans as a Result of AIDS and Other Causes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of AIDS, 2005; 39(3):365-375
Hosegood, V.; Vanneste, A.M.; Timaeus, I.M.; Levels and causes of adult mortality in rural South Africa: the impact of AIDS. AIDS, 2004; 18(4):663-71
Timaeus, I.M.; Jasseh, M.; Adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys. Demography, 2004; 41(4):757-72
Moultrie, T.A.; Timaeus, I.M. The South African fertility decline: Evidence from two censuses and a Demographic and Health Survey Population Studies, 2003; 57:265-283
Timaeus, I. M.; Zaba, B.; Ali, M. M. Estimation of adult mortality from data on adult siblings in 'Brass Tacks: Essays in Medical Demography' ZABA, B.; BLACKER, J.(2001) Athlone Press (London) :43-66

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