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Biography
Heather Booth is Professor Emerita in the School of Demography in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. She has over 40 years' experience in demographic research in both developed and developing countries. Her more recent work focusses on mortality modelling and forecasting, population ageing, and the socio-demography of longevity.
Heather is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research and a previous Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. Heather has served on the Advanced Grants Panel of the European Research Council, and was Founding Editor of the Journal of Population Research (JPR) from 2000 to 2006.
Heather began her career at the London School of Economics before moving to the USA to join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her doctoral research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Heather developed the Booth Standard for use with the Brass Relational Gompertz Model of fertility. She then undertook research on ethnic minority populations in Britain and Western Europe. In 1984, Heather relocated to Nouméa, New Caledonia, to take up a position as demographer with the South Pacific Commission, working throughout the Pacific Islands. She has also worked as an international consultant with the UN and other funding agencies. Heather joined the ANU in 1994.
Qualifications
BSc(Econ) (London), MSc (Southampton), PhD (London)
Research Interests
Researchgate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heather_Booth
Heather’s research is situated in the DEMOGRAPHY OF AGEING. This includes:
- The future of structural population ageing through dynamic stochastic modelling. Heather is an international expert in stochastic modelling and forecasting of mortality and populations.
- Understanding mortality patterns, gaps and transitions through modelling and decomposition.
- The role of social networks with family and friends in the well-being of older people, and the socio-demography of ageing and longevity.
- Socio-demographic determinants of self-rated health and well-being at older ages.
- The future of longevity and mortality at very old ages, and its implications.
- Microsimulation modelling of disability at older ages.
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Thirty years on: A review of the Lee–Carter method for forecasting mortality
Basellini, U., Camarda, C. G. & Booth, H., 1 Jul 2023, In: International Journal of Forecasting. 39, 3, p. 1033-1049 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
17 Citations (Scopus) -
Education-related inequalities in cause-specific mortality: First estimates for Australia using individual-level linked census and mortality data
Welsh, J., Joshy, G., Moran, L., Soga, K., Law, H. D., Butler, D., Bishop, K., Gourley, M., Eynstone-Hinkins, J., Booth, H., Moon, L., Biddle, N., Blakely, A., Banks, E. & Korda, R. J., 1 Dec 2021, In: International Journal of Epidemiology. 50, 6, p. 1981-1994 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access6 Citations (Scopus) -
Inequalities in life expectancy in Australia according to education level: a whole-of-population record linkage study
Welsh, J., Bishop, K., Booth, H., Butler, D., Gourley, M., Law, H., Banks, E., Canudas-Romo, V. & Korda, R., Dec 2021, In: International Journal for Equity in Health. 20, 1, 178.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access14 Citations (Scopus) -
Coherent Mortality Forecasting with Standards: Low Mortality Serves as a Guide
Booth, H., 2020, Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., p. 153-178 26 p. (Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis; vol. 49).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus) -
Factors associated with regional variation in disability-free life expectancy based on functional difficulty among older persons in the Philippines
Abalos, J. B. & Booth, H., 2020, In: Asian Population Studies. p. 264-286 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus)
Projects
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ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR I)
Anstey, K., Piggott, J. R., Blake, D., Booth, H., Cumming, R., Disney, R. F., Fang, H., Keane, M. P., Kendig, H., Kumru, C., McDonald, P., Sherris, M., Tran, C. & Woodland, A. D.
10/02/11 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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The role of online social networks in successful ageing: benefitting from 'who you know' at older ages
Booth, H., Ackland, R. & Windsor, T.
1/03/10 → 30/10/14
Project: Research
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Learning How to Age Well from Australian Longitudinal Studies of Ageing
Anstey, K., Booth, H., Brown, L., Browning, C., Butterworth, P., Byles, J., Cumming, R., Harding, A., Healy, J., Luszcz, M. A., Mitchell, P., Ross, L. & Steel, D.
1/05/07 → 30/06/13
Project: Research
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