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Professor Tiziana Leone

Professor in Health and International Development | Deputy Head of Department
Department of International Development

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Tiziana Leone is a Professor at the London School of Economics whose research sits at the intersection of demography, gender and global health.

Her work follows women's lives across time examining how reproductive experiences, from menarche through menopause, shape health in later life, and how crises such as conflict and natural disasters compound those trajectories. The cumulative weight of these life-course events on ageing women in Low and Middle Income Countries is the thread running through her more recent research.
Her geographical focus is comparative in nature with specific work dedicated to the occupied Palestinian territory, India, Indonesia and Brazil. She has advised WHO, UNFPA and UNICEF on tracking maternal and child health progress against the MDGs and SDGs as well as on the measurement of maternal mortality using census data.
A social statistician by training, Tiziana worked in the UN Statistics Division before moving into academia, coordinating census and civil registration work across low income countries. That background shapes her methodological approach as well as her passion for data, its management and full use in low resource settings. She is particularly keen to experiment with traditional and innovative methods that can make the most of underused data. For example, she specialises in extracting longitudinal insight from cross-sectional data, a technically demanding practice that allows her to ask long-run questions of datasets not designed to answer them. Her methods range from pathway and longitudinal analysis to quasi-experimental and mixed methods approaches, frequently across international collaborations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Expertise

applied social statistics, demographic data, demography, LMICs, population health and conflict, population studies, reproductive health