HIVAN Fellow Prof Jack Caldwell - Seminars

The MRC KZN AIDS Forum, in association with The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN), was proud to host Professor Jack Caldwell at the Forum held on 15 October 2002. He will be presenting another paper later this week.

Professor Caldwell presented his paper "The African AIDS Epidemic" at this forum. Professor Caldwell and his wife, Pat, have recently become HIVAN Fellows and we are delighted to have them on board.

The School of Development Studies and HIVAN is holding a Seminar by Emeritus Professor Jack Caldwell. Professor Caldwell will be speaking to a paper entitled 'The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa'. He will, however, also be reflecting on the relevance of demography to broader development debates. For this latter component of the talk, he will be responding to Tim Dyson's 2001 piece in the International Journal of Population Geography entitled 'A Partial Theory of World Development: The Neglected Role of Demographic Transition in the Shaping of Modern Society'.

The Caldwells have legendary status in African Population Studies and Demography. Latterly they have come to be leaders in the area of African HIV studies in both the fields of Health and multi-disciplinary Social Science. They have been responsible for developing two (and currently three) generations of Population Scientists in Africa and Bangladesh.

Emeritus Professor Jack Caldwell was head of the Australian National University's Department of Demography for almost 20 years, and Coordinator of the University's Health Transition Centre in its National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health from 1994 to 2002. He was President of the demographers' international learned society, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, from 1993 until 1997, the only Australian to have occupied this post. He has been on the Australian delegation to each of the decennial World Population Conferences. He and his wife, Pat Caldwell, have been carrying out research around the world on issues of population growth for over 40 years, some of the findings being recorded in 20 books and 250 chapters and papers in professional journals. Pat brings to Population Studies the specific focus of anthropology and qualitative research.

For a full report on Prof Caldwell's seminar, please go to https://hivan.org.za/arttemp.asp?id=1996

Prof Caldwell's papers can be downloaded on the righthand side of this page.