Dr Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi
Areas of expertise
- Demography 4403
- Family And Household Studies 440301
- Population Trends And Policies 440305
- Public Health 4206
- Social Determinants Of Health 420606
- Health Informatics And Information Systems 420308
Research interests
Fertility
Ageing
Family Planning and Reproductive Health
Population projections and Birth forecasting
Abortion
Family formation and consanguinity marriage
Migration
Biography
Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Demography at the ANU College of Social Sciences. She is a Senior Research Fellow affiliated to the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) in the Demography and Ageing Unit of the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this, she worked at the ANU's Crawford School of Public Policy and Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute where she carried out her research studies on fertility transition, abortion, consanguinity, and population policies in Iran, and on the Regional Australia Database for Ageing Research.
Meimanat is currently working on forecasting births and demographic change exploring the role of education and migration on the future of ageing, childbearing and cohort fertility in Australia and Iran. She has extensive experience in designing and implementation of surveys, and her expertise in quantitative and qualitative research has been resulted in various collaboratons with well-known international demographers. Her longtime collaboration with Prof. Peter McDonald and Prof. Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi resulted in many joint research articles and a winning-prize book on "Fertility Tranistion in Iran: Reproduction and Revolution".
Researcher's projects
Personal research projects
- Fertility transition and population policies in Iran
- Implications of Demographic Change and Ageing in Australia and Asia
- Abortion: causes, consequences and policy implications
Shared research projects
- Demographic projection models [CEPAR, 2016-2024]
- ARC Linkage Project on Innovation in Demographiv Modeling for Government Analysis and Planning [ABS, 2022-2024
- Family Change and Partnerships in the MENA region [2022-2024]
- Low fertility and its policy implications in five selected provinces of Iran [Iran NIHR, 2018-2021]
- Spital population projection: A multi-dimensional multi-state population models in demographic analysis and projections, focusing on modeling human capital formation (education and health) and urbanization in Iran [Funded by ADRI, 2018-2021]
- The role of education attaiments on trends and prospects of cross-sectional study of cohort fertility in Iran [VID and CEPAR, 2017]
- Drivers and Decision Making Processes of Irregular Migration Among Afghans in Iran [Funded by Australia Departmnt of Immigration and Border Protection 2014-2016]
- Demographic Consequences of Asian Disasters: Family Dynamics, Social Capital and Migration Patterns. [Funded by ARC 2012-2015].
- Recent Trends of Fertility in Iran: Application of the Own-Children Method to the 2011 Census [Funded by Iran's SCI, 2013].
- Assessing Unsafe Abortion in Two Islamic Countries: Iran and Indonesia [Funded by WHO, 2010-2011].
- Trends and Level of Fertility in Iran: Application of Own-Children Method to the 2006 Census data [Funded by Statistical Centre of Iran in 2010].
- Family Planning and Rural Fertility Decline in Iran: A Study in Program Evaluation, funded by Global Development Network [Funded by GDN in 2009].
- Childbearing, Labour Supply, and Women’s Well being in Old Age in Iran [Funded by GERPA in 2008].
- The 2010 Iran Demographic and Health Survey [Funded by the Iran Ministry of Health].
- The 2008 Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (IMES) for Family Health Programs [Funded by the Iran Ministry of Health].
- The 2005 Iran Low Fertility Survey [Funded by Wellcome Trust].
- The 2002 Iran Fertility Transition Survey [Funded by Wellcome Trust].
- The 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey [Funded by the Iran Ministry of Health].
Past student projects
Nasibeh Zanjary, 2012-2016: Successful Ageing in Iran: Conceptualization, Instrument Development and Validation. PhD research project
Publications
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, McDonald, P & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2007, Fertility and contraceptive use dynamics in Iran: Special focus on low fertility regions.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2015, 'Demographic Consequences of the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran', in H. James and P. Douglas (ed.), THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISASTERS: Demographic, Planning, and Policy Implications, Charles C Thomas Publisher Ltd, unknown.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2015, 'Unintended Pregnancy among Iranian Young Women: Incidence, Correlates and Outcomes', Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 95-118.
- McDonald, P, Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Abbasi-Shavazi, M et al. 2015, 'An assessment of recent Iranian fertility trends using parity progression ratios', Demographic Research, vol. 32, pp. 1581-1602.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2014, 'Population trends and policies in Iran: The necessity for comprehensive national population plan', Journal of Population Association of Iran, vol. 7, no. 13, pp. 95-117.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Abbasi-Shavazi, M & Bittles, A 2014, 'Consanguineous marriage, reproductive behaviour and postnatal mortality in contemporary Iran', Human Heredity, vol. 77, no. 1-4, pp. 16-25.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Sadeghi, R, Hosseini Chavoshi, M et al. 2013, Demographic and socio-economic situation of youth in Iran.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Hosseini Chavoshi, M & Hashemi, B 2013, Fertility trends and levels over the last four decades in Iran: Application of the Own-children Method of Fertility Estimation to the 1986 to 2011 censuses.
- Hosseini-Chavoshi, M., 2013. Review of Islam and the securitisation of population policies: Muslim states and sustainability, by Katrina. Riddell. Journal of Population Research, 30(1): 97-99.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Glazebrook, D et al. 2012, 'Social and psychological. consequences of abortion in Iran', International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 118, no. Supplement 2, pp. S172-S177.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2012, 'Demographic Transition in Iran: Changes and Challenges', in Hans Groth, Alfonso Sousa-Poza (ed.), Population Dynamics in Muslim Countries: Assembling the Jigsaw, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 97-115.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Engelman, M et al. 2011, 'The health of older women after high parity in Taft, Iran', Asian Population Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 263-274.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2011, 'Evolution of fertility, family planning and population policies in Iran', Journal of Knowledge in Islamic University (Daneshgah-E-Eslami), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 8-25.
- Salehi-Isfahani, D, Abbasi-Shavazi, M & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2010, 'Family planning and fertility decline in rural Iran: The impact of rural health clinics', Health Economics, vol. 19, pp. 159-180.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, McDonald, P & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2009, The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction, Springer, Dordrect.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Morgan, S, Hosseini Chavoshi, M et al. 2009, 'Family change and continuity in Iran: Birth control use before first pregnancy', Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 1309-1324.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Lutz, W, Hosseini Chavoshi, M et al. 2008, Education and the World's Most Rapid Fertility Decline in Iran.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, McDonald, P & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2008, 'Modernization or Cultural Maintenance: The practices of Consanguineous Marriage in Iran', Journal of Biosocial Science, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 911-933.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, McDonald, P & Hosseini Chavoshi, M 2008, 'The Family and Social Change in Post-Revolutionary Iran', in Kathryn M. Yount and Hoda Rashad (ed.), Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 217-235.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Hosseini Chavoshi, M & McDonald, P 2007, 'The Path to Below Replacement Fertility in the Islamic Republic of Iran', Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 91-112.
- Hosseini Chavoshi, M, McDonald, P & Abbasi-Shavazi, M 2006, 'The Iranian Fertility Decline, 1981-1999: An Application of the Synthetic Parity Progression Ratio Method', Population, vol. 61, no. 5-6, pp. 701-718.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Hosseini Chavoshi, M, McDonald, P et al. 2005, Fertility Transition in Iran: Evidence from Four Selected Provinces [Persian], Iran Ministry of Health, Tehran.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, M, Hosseini Chavoshi, M, Koosheshi, M et al. 2005, 'Trends and Emerging Issues of Health and Mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran', in Thelma Kay (ed.), Emerging Issues of Health and Mortality in the Asian and Pacific Region: Asian Population Studies Series No. 163, United Nations Publishers, Bangkok, pp. 147-160.
- Abbasi-Shavazi, MJ, Hosseini-Chavoshi, M, Aghajanian, A, Delavar, B & Mehryar, A 2004, 'Unintended pregnancies in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Levels and Correlates', Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 27-38.
