Research areas
Mortality and causes of death in industrialized
countries
Demographic trends in Southeast Asia and Sub-
Saharan Africa (family structure and relations,
reproductive change, health and mortality)
Historical demography of Vietnam
Levels, trends and differ
Other activities
Associate Director of the Human Mortality Database project (www.mortality.org) and Director of the United States Mortality DataBase (usa.mortality.org).
'Head (co-head after February 2006) of Ined Research division 7 «Population and development», 2003-200