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BBC Radio 4 | Sarah Harper
How do we prepare for an ageing population? What will living longer mean for the life choices we make? Professor Sarah Harper discussed increasing life expectancies with important implications f...
New Publication Alert: Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies
Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies: Active Ageing Index and its Potential Edited by A. Zaidi, S. Harper, K. Howse, G. Lamura, J. Perek-Biaas Description This book provides multin...
New Publication Alert
Global demographic change and grandparenthood by George Leeson Description Life expectancies at birth have increased at the global level from 47 years in the mid-twentieth century to a...
New Publication Alert
As the World Ages: When Older Populations Become the Majority by Sarah Harper. Description One of the great challenges facing the global order over the coming decades is the aging of the pop...
Ageing in the Commonwealth
The latest edition of Driven by Health magazine features the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing research report “Ageing in the Commonwealth” commissioned by the Commonwealth As...
New Publication Alert
Son Preference and Family Limitation in Pakistan: A Parity- and Contraceptive Method–Specific Analysis by Dr Melanie Channon (Frost). Description: Son preference exerts a strong i...
HDR UK | Sarah Harper
Professor Sarah Harper has been appointed to the Board of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK). HDR UK supports world-leading research to develop cutting-edge analytical tools and methodologies to a...
United Nations Radio | George Leeson
With the launch of The International Labour Organization’s flagship report World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2018, Dr George Leeson was interviewed by the UN Depar...
Claudia Azevedo | PhD Award
Congratulations to Claudia Azevedo on successfully defending her doctoral thesis. Claudia was awarded a PhD in Gerontology and Geriatrics from the Instituto de Ciências Biomé...
Healthy Aging Symposium 2018
Professor Sarah Harper is an invited speaker at the Healthy Aging Symposium 2018 taking place at Tel Aviv University on 11 January 2018. The goal of the Healthy Aging Symposium is to prese...
2018 EIT Health Summer School on Active Ageing
The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, in partnership with SAID Business School and the Pierre & Marie Currie University in Paris, has been successful in a bid to host a 2018 EIT Health Sum...
Population Horizons | New Issue Alert
We are pleased to announce that issue 14(2) of Population Horizons is now complete and available online at Sciendo. Population Horizons is a forum for analysis and debate on the many complex and...
Future Foresight Forum 2017 | Clarification
An article in the Times of Oman reporting views of experts who have been invited speakers at the Future Foresight Forum, part of the Sultanate’s Oman Vision 2040, misinterpreted trends outlin...
Future Foresight Forum 2017
Professor Sarah Harper is an invited speaker at The Future Foresight Forum (FFF) event taking place at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre under the patronage of H H Sayyid Haitham bin Tariq ...
Longer lives | Thisismoney.co.uk
The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing study is mentioned in a Thisismoney.co.uk article “Retirees risk running out of money in later life as 78% underestimate how long they are likely to ...