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Ian M. Timæus is a researcher affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their academic work is situated primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Demography, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Gender Studies, and General Health Professions.

Their research topics cover a range of themes including Global Maternal and Child Health, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences, Family Dynamics and Relationships, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, as well as Nutritional Studies and Diet.

Timæus has published articles in several venues, notably including PLoS ONE, Demography, SSM - Population Health, Demographic Research, and Population Health Metrics. These journals have hosted their contributions on diverse aspects of demography and public health.

  • Forecasting the prevalence of overweight and obesity in India to 2040 (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Pathways to Low Fertility: 50 Years of Limitation, Curtailment, and Postponement of Childbearing (2020, Demography)
  • Changing family structures and self-rated health of India's older population (1995-96 to 2014) (2020, SSM - Population Health)
  • The Own-Children Method of fertility estimation: The devil is in the detail (2021, Demographic Research)
  • A new method for estimating recent adult mortality from summary sibling histories (2024, Population Health Metrics)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sanjay Kinra, Lynda Clarke, Bruno Masquelier, Georges Reniers, and Shammi Luhar. These partnerships reflect a network of contributors across fields intersecting public health and demographic studies.

Best Publications

  • Initial burden of disease estimates for South Africa, 2000.

    Debbie Bradshaw;Pam Groenewald;Ria Laubscher;Nadine Nannan

  • The impact of HIV/AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa

    R Dorrington;D Bourne;D Bradshaw;R Laubscher

  • The socioeconomic determinants of HIV incidence: evidence from a longitudinal, population-based study in rural South Africa.

    Till Bärnighausen;Victoria Hosegood;Ian M Timaeus;Marie-Louise Newell

  • Levels and causes of adult mortality in rural South Africa: The impact of AIDS

    Victoria Hosegood;Anna Maria Vanneste;Ian M. Timæus

  • Tools for Demographic Estimation

    TA Moultrie;RE Dorrington;AG Hill;K Hill

  • Adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys.

    Ian M. Timæus;Momodou Jasseh

  • Forecasting the prevalence of overweight and obesity in India to 2040.

    Shammi Luhar;Ian M. Timæus;Ian M. Timæus;Rebecca Jones;Solveig Cunningham

  • Revealing the full extent of households’ experiences of HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa

    Victoria Hosegood;Eleanor Preston-Whyte;Joanna Busza;Sindile Moitse

  • Men's involvement in the South African family: engendering change in the AIDS era.

    Catherine M. Montgomery;Victoria Hosegood;Victoria Hosegood;Joanna Busza;Ian M. Timaeus;Ian M. Timaeus

  • Birth intervals, postponement, and fertility decline in Africa: a new type of transition?

    Tom A Moultrie;Takudzwa S Sayi;Ian M Timæus

  • The impact of HIV / AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa. Technical report.

    Dorrington R;Bourne D;Bradshaw D;Laubscher R

  • Intra-urban differentials in child health

    Ian M Timaeus;Louisiana Lush

  • The South African Fertility Decline: Evidence From Two Censuses and a Demographic and Health Survey

    Tom A. Moultrie;Ian M. Timæus

  • Impact of the HIV epidemic on mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from national surveys and censuses.

    Timaeus Im

  • The impact of adult mortality on household dissolution and migration in rural South Africa

    Hosegood;McGrath N;Herbst K;Timaeus Im

  • On postponement and birth intervals.

    Ian M. Timæus;Tom A. Moultrie

  • Polygynists and Their Wives in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Five Demographic and Health Surveys

    Ian M. Timæus;Angela Reynar

  • Measurement of adult mortality in less developed countries: a comparative review.

    Ian M. Timaeus

  • The Spectrum projection package: improvements in estimating incidence by age and sex, mother-to-child transmission, HIV progression in children and double orphans.

    J Stover;P Johnson;T Hallett;M Marston

  • Household composition and dynamics in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: mirroring social reality in longitudinal data collection

    Victoria Hosegood;Ian M. Timaeus

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Hosegood
Victoria Hosegood University of Southampton
Nicholas C. Grassly
Nicholas C. Grassly Imperial College London
Kenneth Hill
Kenneth Hill Stanford University
Joanna Busza
Joanna Busza London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Marie-Louise Newell
Marie-Louise Newell University of Southampton
Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Kaye Wellings
Kaye Wellings London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Nuala McGrath
Nuala McGrath University of Southampton

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