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Jeromey Temple, Ph.D

Director

Dr. Jeromey TEMPLE is the Director of the Productive Ageing Centre. He has also held positions as Director of Demographic Insight Pty Ltd, Research Fellow at the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ANU) and as Research Advisor to Malcolm Turnbull, M.P. He holds a PhD in Demography, a first class honours degree in Population Studies and a Bachelor of Commerce all from the ANU. He has written widely on individual ageing including: health insurance reform, housing affordability, living arrangements, fraud, dissaving and asset deaccumulation behavior, expenditure behavior and time use in the later lifecourse. Together with Peter McDonald, He has also written widely on aspects of population ageing focusing on implications of structural ageing for Australian labour force growth, GDP per capita growth and the role of demographic factors in ameliorating future outcomes.

 

 
  

 

Tim Adair, Ph.D

Senior Research Fellow

Dr. Tim ADAIR is a demographer with extensive experience, both in Australia and internationally, working within the government, university and private sectors in the analysis of a wide range of key policy issues. In particular, his research work has focused on the quantitative analysis of government programs on health outcomes, and the design and implementation of surveys and other data collections. He has also worked as a consultant to develop and conduct training programs to improve the capacity of policymakers to utilise evidence to monitor and evaluation programs. He has a PhD in Demography from the Australian National University and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the MEASURE DHS Program at Macro International (now ICF Macro) in the USA.

 

 

Lea Ortega

Research Associate

Lea ORTEGA was a consultant at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Economic Research Department, and, Office of Regional Economic Integration before joining the Productive Ageing Centre. She has a wide range of research experience across different areas including aid and development, governance and institutions, macroeconomics, infrastructure, ageing and social protection. For more than eight years, Ortega had worked on projects in partnership with aid agencies including the United Nation (UN), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).  She finished her Masters degree in International Development majoring in Economic Development Policy and Management at Nagoya University as a scholar on the Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP).  From 1999 to 2005, she worked for the Philippine Government in the Ministry of Finance, International Finance Group after completing her undergraduate study in Economics at the University of the City of Manila.

 

  

Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, Ph.D

Adjunct Fellow

Dr. Meimanat HOSSEINI-CHAVOSHI is a Research Fellow at the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute of the Australian National University (ANU) as well as an Adjunct Fellow with the Productive Ageing Center.  Prior to completing a Ph.D in Demography, for 18 years  Hosseini-Chavoshi was a Senior Officer with the Family Health Department of the Iran Ministry of Health, managing the Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation Health System Unit.  She has worked in a range of areas covering population, family and reproductive health at both provincial and national levels, and was responsible for designing, implementing and analyzing several major national surveys conducted by the ministry of health in the field of fertility, reproductive health, abortion, ageing and adolescents. Hosseini-Chavoshi has been collaborating with ANU Professors McDonald and Abbasi-Shavazi in several research projects on Fertility in Iran funded by the Welcome Trust. The outcome of their decade-long research culminated in a book that won the World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2011. She holds a Ph.D in Demography and Master of Population Studies from the ANU, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran.