Basia Zaba

Basia Zaba (1949-2018)

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Basia Zaba, Professor of Medical Demography at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on Thursday 12 July, 2018, aged 69. She leaves an enormous legacy to demography, through her work on demographic estimation and population-level HIV surveillance and through her mentorship and guidance of generations of demographers in the UK and abroad.

Basia first joined the IUSSP in 1980. She was an active contributor to its activities throughout her career, delivering scientific papers at conferences and seminars and doing much to enliven the social events that followed the formal sessions. In 1986, she wrote Measurement of Emigration using Indirect Techniques (published in English, French and Spanish) on behalf of two IUSSP Scientific Committees. Then, with John Clarke, she edited the 1994 volume onEnvironment and Population Change that arose from a 1992 conference that was co-sponsored by the British Society for Population Studies and IUSSP. From 1995-9, Basia chaired the IUSSP Committee on AIDS. In that role, she co-edited a 1997 supplement for Health Transition Review: Evidence of the Socio-Demographic Impact of AIDS in Africa based on a seminar held earlier that year in Durban, South Africa... Read more on Basia Zaba's career.

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