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Dr Gordon Carmichael   BA (Auck), MA (Auck), PhD (ANU) Current Position: Fellow Convenor, Graduate Studies in Epidemiology, Population Health and Health Services 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 2309 F: +61 2 6125 0740 Email

Research Interests

• Family formation decision-making in Australia
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Health inequalities
• Health systems
• Mortality trends and patterns
• Adolescent sexuality
• Health transition in Thailand.

Selected Recent Publications

SunX, JacksonS, CarmichaelG, Sleigh,A. Prescribing Behaviour of Village Doctors Under China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme, Social Science and Medicine, 2009; doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.043.

RazzaqueA, CarmichaelG, StreatfieldP.K. Adult Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh: Levels, Trends, Socio-demographic Differentials and Causes of Death, Asian Population Studies, 2009; 5(1), 85-100.

Sun X, Jackson S, Carmichael G, Sleigh, A. Catastrophic Medical Payment and Financial Protection in Rural China: Evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Shandong Province, Health Economics, 2009; 18, 103-119.

Carmichael G. Demographic Disequilibrium in Early Twentieth Century Thailand: Falling Mortality, Rising Fertility, or Both? Asian Population Studies, 2008; 4(2), 161-176.

Yiengprugsawan V, Lim L, Carmichael G, Sidorenko A, Sleigh A. Measuring and Decomposing Inequity in Self-reported Morbidity and Self-assessed Health in Thailand, International Journal for Equity in Health, 2007; 6 (paper 23), 17pp.

Carmichael G, Whittaker A. Living Together in Australia: Qualitative Insights Into a Complex Phenomenon, Journal of Family Studies, 2007; 13(2), 202-223.

Carmichael G, Whittaker A. Forming Relationships in Australia: Qualitative Insights Into a Process Important to Human Wellbeing, Journal of Population Research, 2007; 24(1), 23-49.

Carmichael G, Whittaker A, Choice and Circumstance: Qualitative Insights Into Contemporary Childlessness in Australia’, European Journal of Population, 2007; 23(2) 111-143.

Carmichael G. Things Ain’t What They Used to Be!  Demography, Mental Cohorts, Morality and Values in Post-war Australia’, Journal of the Australian Population Association, 1998; 15(2), 91‑113.

CarmichaelG. From Floating Brothels to Suburban Semirespectability: Two Centuries of Nonmarital Pregnancy in Australia, Journal of Family History, 1996; 21(3), 281-315.