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.

BSc(Econ) (London), MSc (Southampton), PhD (London)

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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.