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Public Health: Saving Lives and Spending Less
The US healthcare system costs far more than in Japan, where emphasis is placed on lifestyle Sarah Harper The Guardian, 11 March 2012 18.30 GMT The over-consumption of food and alcoho...
Long lives and low birth rates are a problem across the West
The EU is likely to see an average increase of 23 per cent in public pension expenditure by the middle of the century. In an interview in The Independent on Tuesday 31 January 2012, Sarah Ha...
Planet Under Pressure: Taking Stock of Past and Current Demographic Trends
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) has interviewed Prof Sarah Harper at London’s 2012 “Planet Under Pressure” conference on populat...
12 Days Without a Home - A Diary Among Old Homeless
12 Days Without a Home - A Diary Among Old Homeless - 12 Dage Uden Hjem – En dagbog blandt gamle hjemløse by Dr George Leeson was published in December 2011 (currently only...
The Economist: 'Health and longevity. A chinking time bomb'
The Economist has reported on Sarah Harper's recent London lecture in an article entitled 'Health and longevity. A chinking time bomb' . The article addresses Harpers arguments on unhea...
The Guardian's video coverage of Sarah Harper's lecture on population ageing
Main extracts from the Oxford London Lecture by Professor Sarah Harper, organized in association with the Guardian. Professor Harper examines the effects of population growth, global agei...
Science Royal Society's 'People and the planet' report delivers stark warnings
Wired.co.uk reports on Royal Society's 'People and the planet' report. The report is as a result of a 21-month study by the Royal Society, which brought together 22 experts, in...
Planning to flourish in a world of 7 billion
BBC News interviews Prof Sarah Harper on her recent Royal Society Report 'People and the Planet'. 'According to the UN the world population is set to rise to 10 billion before the en...
Sarah Harper discusses China's demographic 'Achille's heel' on The Economist
A comparison with America reveals a deep flaw in China’s model of growth. Sarah Harper has discussed with the Achille's Heel Economist China's demographic Achille's hell ...
People and the Planet - media coverage
The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing has co-authored 'People and the Planet', a major policy report commissioned by the Royal Society. The study brought together 22 leading expe...
Time for action on population and consumption
Academics and world leaders are calling for decisive action on population and consumption. The world’s 105 science academies representing countries as diverse as South Africa, Latvia, Japan, ...
Why do so many African leaders die in office?
It's rare for the leader of a country to die in office. Since 2008, it's happened 13 times worldwide - but10 of those leaders have been African. Why is it so much more common in this one co...
BBC Radio 4 interviews Dr George Leeson
On July 27th, Dr George W Leeson has released an interview to BBC Radio 4, 'More or Less'. The show examined the 'Age at death of the mothers of Presidents of the United Stat...
Dr George Leeson awarded British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Grant
Dr George W. Leeson has been awarded a three year British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Grant, beginning September 2012, to work with Dr Alejandro Klein from the University of Guan...
The Longevity of US Presidents' Mothers
Dr George Leeson (Co-Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing) was asked to contribute his expertise to a recent research enquiry on the Longevity of US Presidents' Mother...