Acknowledgements

These materials have been developed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) for the UNFPA. The authors would like to thank the module organisers and presenters of the in-house modules at LSHTM who kindly contributed materials. Special thanks to the volunteers who pre-tested all materials.

Module authors

Clara Calvert

Clara Calvert is a Research Degree Student in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM. Her research is focused on maternal health and HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Clara wrote:

Amanda Chorley

Amanda Chorley completed an MSc in Demography and Health at LSHTM in 2012. Her research interests include demographic processes in high income countries, reproductive and health decision-making, and social inequalities in health. She wrote or contributed to the following sessions:

Lynda Clarke

Lynda Clarke was overall project director for these distance learning materials. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population Health at LSHTM and Course Director of the two Masters courses in Demography and Health and Reproductive and Sexual Health Research. She has substantive interests in family demography (particularly changing family circumstances and policy, fatherhood and fertility). She wrote or co-authored:

Megan Douthwaite

Megan Douthwaite is a Demographer with research experience in South and South East Asia. Her research interests include the monitoring and evaluation of family planning programmes. She currently tutors on the Epidemiology Distance Learning MSc at LSHTM. She wrote:

Purushottam Kulkarni

Purushottam Kulkarni is a Professor in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The main areas of his research are fertility, technical demography, population policies and programmes. Kulkarni was in the Advisory Board for PAPP and acted as a reviewer for a number of sessions.

Kazuyo Machiyama

Kazuyo Machiyama is a Research Fellow at Department of Population Health in LSHTM. The main area of her research is fertility and family planning in sub-Saharan Africa. She wrote:

Tom Moultrie

Tom Moultrie is Associate Professor of Demography at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests lie in the areas of indirect estimation of demographic parameters, and the dynamics of fertility transitions in Africa. He contributed to the following sessions:

Jose Irineu Rangel Rigotti

Undergraduate in Geography from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil (1990), masters at Demography from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1994) and PhD at Demography from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1999). Has experience in Demography, focusing on General Space Distribution, acting on the following subjects: migration, spatial distribution of the populations, and educational indicators. He wrote:

Georges Reniers

Georges Reniers is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population Health at LSHTM. He has substantive interests in the demography of sub-Saharan Africa (mortality, family dynamics, sexual behavior and HIV) and migration studies. He wrote or co-authored:

Emma Slaymaker

Emma Slaymaker is an epidemiologist who analyses data on HIV and sexual behaviour from demographic and health surveys and demographic surveillance sites. She is a lecturer in the Population Studies Group within the Department of Population Health at LSHTM. Emma wrote:

Andy Sloggett

Andy Sloggett was a Senior Lecturer in Demography at the Department of Population Health, LSHTM. He was for many years the Course Director for MSc Demography and Health and is now retired. His interests are applied demographic methods and the analysis of complex surveys and longitudinal studies. He reviewed several sessions and wrote:

and co-authored:

Ian Timaeus

Ian Timaeus is Professor of Demography in the Department of Population Health, LSHTM. His research interests include the fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa, inequalities in child health and welfare, and methods for measuring adult mortality in developing countries. He wrote:

Sarah Walters

Sarah Walters is a demographer whose work focuses on long-term trends in African demography and on health inequalities and policy in the UK. She is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health at LSHTM. She wrote:

Basia Zaba

Basia Zaba is Professor of Medical Demography in the Department of Population Health. Her current research focuses on the demographic correlates of the HIV epidemic in Africa. Basia co-authored a number sessions including:

Design and development

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