Professor Terence Hull

John C. Caldwell Professor of Population, Health and Development

T: +61 2 6125 0527
E: terry.hull@anu.edu.au
Room 3223 Coombs Building

Background

Terence (Terry) Hull is Professor of Demography in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI) and Adjunct Professor of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH). In the latter position he holds the JC Caldwell Chair in Population, Health and Development. He leads the NCEPH Theme Area on Population Health in the Asia - Pacific Region.

Terry migrated to Australia with his family in 1961, and spent four years in Sydney, where he graduated high school. In 1966 he returned to the United States for undergraduate studies in Economics and Political Science in Miami, Florida, and graduate work at the East West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. With his wife Valerie, he took up a PhD scholarship in Demography at the ANU in 1971, and carried out fieldwork in both Fiji and Indonesia before completing his dissertation on the value of children in Java in 1975.

Between 1975 and 1979 he and Val worked on secondment from the Demography Department to the Population Institute of Gadjah Mada University, under the supervision of Professor Masri Singarimbun. They carried out a variety of research projects on family planning, child survival, breastfeeding, infertility, and demographic trends and helped to establish the Population Research Training Program, under funding from the Ford Foundation and USAID.

Returning to Canberra in 1979, Terry set up the International Population Dynamics Program in Demography, and carried out a series of projects in China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Following a stint in the Department of Political and Social Change in RSPAS, Terry returned to Demography in 1992. From 1993-96 he took leave and a period of secondment to work at the Health Research Centre of the University of Indonesia, where he wrote extensively on the politics of family planning programs, developed qualitative approaches to the study of maternal and child mortality, and collaborated with Endang Sulistyaningsih and Gavin Jones on a study of prostitution in Indonesia. After returning to Canberra in 1996 Terry served as Convenor for the Graduate Program in Demography. and Director of Graduate Studies in Demography, and Associate Director of the Research School of Social Sciences.

Current Research Activities

• Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia, including the four country study of vaginal practices with WHO
• Fertility trends Indonesia
• Politics of family planning in Indonesia
• History of Abortion in Indonesia
• Analysis of the 2000 Indonesian Census. See: http://www.datastatistik-indonesia.com
• Participant in the Marriage Studies Network in Asia. See:
• Marital status worksheets for countries of Asia
• SUSENAS Singulate Mean Age at Marriage Report for Indonesia
• The use of models in the estimation of infant and child mortality. See for background: Levels and trends of infant and child mortality in Indonesia estimated in 1978: A methodological review. 1995. In Ananta, A. (ed), Kecenderungan dan faktor penentu fertilitas & mortalitas di Indonesia. Kantor Meteri Negara Kependudukan/BKKBN, Jakarta. 253-322. (PDF 1.35mb)

Selected Publications

Terence H. Hull. 2007. The Strange History and Problematic Future of the Australian Census. Journal of Population Research. 24(1):1-22.

Terence H. Hull. 2007. “Formative years of family planning in Indonesia”. Chapter 15, Pp. 235-256 in Warren C. Robinson and John A. Ross (eds). The Global Family Planning Revolution.Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Terence H. Hull. 2007. Beyond and Below the Nation State: Challenges for Population Data Collection and Analysis. Asia Pacific Population Journal. 22(1):3-7.

Terence H. Hull. 2006 Review of Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer. Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population. In Journal of East Asian Studies, 6 (2): 310-313. May-August 2006.

Terence H. Hull (editor). 2006. Masyarakat, Kependudukan, dan Kebijakan di Indonesia. Jakarta: Equinox Publishing (Asia). (Translation of 2005 People, Population and Policy in Indonesia)

Terence H. Hull. 2005,"Reproductive health trends in Islamic countries" pp. 56-80 In Gavin W. Jones and Mehtab Karim (eds), Islam, the State and Population. London: C. Hurst and Co. ISBN: 1-85065-791-2

Terence H. Hull. 2005. Introduction: Indonesia's Population from 1950 to 2000: Carving out new futures. In Terence H. Hull (ed.) People, Population and Policy in Indonesia. Jakarta and Singapore: Equinox Publishing (Asia) and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Pp. 1-70.

Terence H. Hull and Valerie J. Hull. 2005. Section 1: From family planning to reproductive health care: a brief history. In Terence H. Hull (ed.) People, Population and Policy in Indonesia. Jakarta and Singapore: Equinox Publishing (Asia) and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Pp. xvii - xxi.

Terence H. Hull. Postscript 2004. 2005. In Terence H. Hull (ed.) People, Population and Policy in Indonesia. Jakarta and Singapore: Equinox Publishing (Asia) and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Pp. 169-175.

Terence H. Hull (editor). 2005. People, Population and Policy in Indonesia. Jakarta and Singapore: Equinox Publishing (Asia) and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.