Allan G Hill

Professor of Population and International Health
University of Southampton

ah4e10@soton.ac.uk

Field of Study: Demography, Geography, Population and Development, Public Health/ Epidemiology
 
Specialization: Fertility, Mortality, Health, and Longevity, Population and Development, Social Demography, Spatial Analysis (and Geographic Information)
 
Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), University of Durham, Demography, 1969
 
Working languages: English
French, Arabic, German
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), Population Association of America (PAA), Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)


Professional web page:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/demography/about/staff/ah4e10.page?  
 
Professional Summary:

Dr.  Hill is currently Professor of Population and International Health, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton and the Emeritus Andelot Professor of Demography at Harvard University.  The long-standing focus of Hill’s research has been understanding the health, mortality and fertility health transitions and their determinants in the Arab World and West Africa.   


Hill directed a series of linked studies in Ghana including Wave 2 of the Women’s Health Study of Accra, a panel study of the health transitions and differentials in 3200 urban women.  This work is conducted in close collaboration with colleagues in Ghana both at ISSER and at the Ghana School of Public Health.  It involves the training of Ghanaian MPH and PhD students as well as their counterparts in US and UK universities in the methods and theory of longitudinal health research.  

 

 

Publications:

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (2020). Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants. Lancet 2020; 396: 1511–24. PMID: 33160572. PMCID: PMC7658740.  DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31859-6

 

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (2019). Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults. Nature, 569(7755), 260-264. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x

 

Morgan SA, Eyles C, Roderick PJ, Adongo PB, Hill AG. Women living with multi-morbidity in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana: a qualitative study guided by the Cumulative Complexity Model.J Biosoc Sci 51(4): 562-577.

  doi:10.1017/S0021932018000342. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30472965.

 

Frempong-Ainguah F, Bailey CE, Hill AG. Women's health status in urban Ghana: dimensions and differentials using short form 36. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2018 Apr 24;16(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s12955-018-0894-y. PubMed PMID: 29690865; PubMed

Central PMCID: PMC5926535.

 

Dzodzomenyo, M., M. Dzodzomenyo  G. Fink  W. Dotse-Gborgbortsi  N. Wardrop  G. Aryeetey  N. Coleman A. Hill  J. Wright

J Water Health Sachet water quality and product registration: a cross-sectional study in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Water and Health, 2018. 16(4): p. 646-656.

 

Waterhouse, P, Hill, Allan G. and Hinde, Andrew (2017) Combining work and childcare: the experiences of mothers in Accra, Ghana.  Development Southern Africa. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2017.1323627 Published online on 17 May 2017.

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
UK ESRC Grants Assessment Panel C (2015-19).

UK ESRC Understanding Society Governing Board (2013 - 2018).

UK ESRC Methods and Infrastructure Committee (2011 - 14).

US National Academy of Sciences Committee Member on Leveraging Longitudinal Data In Developing Countries, Committee on Population (2001-2).

Secretary-General and Treasurer, Council member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Liège. 1989-1997.

Associate and Regional Representative for Arab West Asia, The Population Council, Beirut & Amman (1975-79).

Population Officer, The Ford Foundation, Beirut and Cairo. Middle East Regional Office. (1975-79).