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Dr Bruce Caldwell   BA (Hons) Anthropology; MA Anthropology; Phd Demography ANU Current Position: Research Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 0715 F: +61 2 6125 0740 Email

Research Interests

• Third World urban health
• Fertility decline
• Family planning
• Reproductive health
• Abortion
• HIV/AIDS
• Marriage patterns
• Field research in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India and Africa.

Selected Recent Publications

Caldwell BK, Smith WT, Lokuge K, Ranmuthugala G, Dear K, Milton AH, Sim MR, Ng JC, Mitra SN. Access to Drinking-water and Arsenicosis in Bangladesh. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 2006; 24(3): 336-345.

Caldwell BK. Why women continue to die from childbirth in Dhaka, Bangladesh. in Reproductive Health, Unmet needs and Poverty. Issues of access and quality of services, Susana Lerner and Éric Vilquin, (eds.), CICRED, Paris 2005, pp 311 -342.

Caldwell BK. Factors affecting female age at marriage in South Asia: Contrasts between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Asian Population Studies, 2005; 1 (3) : 283-301.

Caldwell BK, Smith WT, Caldwell JC, Mitra SN. Trends in Water Usage and Knowledge of Arsenicosis in Bangladesh: Findings from Successive National Surveys. Population Space and Place July/August 2005. 11 (4), Pages 211-223

Caldwell BK, Caldwell JC. Below-Replacement Fertility in Asia: Determinants and Prospects in South Asia. Journal of Population Research 2003; 20 (1):19-34.

Caldwell BK, Caldwell JC, S.N. Mitra, Smith W. Searching for an Optimum Solution to the Bangladesh Arsenic Crisis. Social Science and Medicine 2003; 56 (10): 2089-2096.

Caldwell BK, Caldwell JC, Mitra SN, Smith W. Tubewells and arsenic in Bangladesh: challenging a public health success story. International Journal of Population Geography 9, 2003: 23-38. (www.interscience.wiley.com).

Caldwell BK, Caldwell JC, Barkat-e-Khuda, Pieris I. Why do the children of the poor die in Dhaka, Bangladesh? Population Research and Policy Review 2002; 21: 159-178.

Caldwell JC, Caldwell BK. Pre-transitional Population Control and Equilibrium. Population Studies 2003; 57 (2): 1-17.

Caldwell B. Pieris I. Sexual regimes and sexual networking: the risk of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in Bangladesh. Social Science & Medicine 1999; 48:1103-1116.