CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE

• May – July 2007: PEER Communications Specialist, Jamaica – Kingston, Constella/Hope Enterprises. Participatory qualitative research project for inner-city women into sexual relationships, HIV and condom use.
• March 2004: Demographic Consultant - Switzerland, UNAIDS, AIDS In Africa: Scenarios for the Future project. Carried out epidemiological and demographic projections to feed into the development of scenarios.

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

• Nov 2006 – Mar 2007 Social Scientist - Karonga Prevention Study, Malawi. Designed sexual behaviour survey for longitudinal demographic and epidemiological research project, including formative research, developing field protocols and pre-testing. Developed indicators for HIV risk behaviours. Carried out situational analysis of HIV/AIDS related services and prevention activities in the study area.
• Oct 2005 – Jan 2006 Economic and Social Research Council Fellow - Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology. Researched and wrote briefing paper for parliament on public health in UK. Organised House of Lords dissemination seminar.
• Oct 2005 – Jan 2006 Research Associate – Fathers in Prison study. A mixed-methods study of family dynamics among UK prisoners. 
• 0ct 2003 – Feb 2004 Research Assistant – UNAIDS, London. Commissioning of research evidence for multi-disciplinary programme. Analysis and summary of policy and anthropological evidence.
• Oct 2001 – Jan 2002 Information Analyst – Northern and Yorkshire Public Health Observatory. Analysis and presentation of local public health data for primary health care audiences.

PUBLICATIONS

• Rolfe, B and Joanne Hemmings. “she sweet up the boopsy and him nuh get nuh wine: young women and sexual relationships in Kingston, Jamaica”. Report for CHARISMA, published by the PEER Unit, Options Consultancy. August 2007
• Hemmings, J. “Managing infertility in northern Malawi: Rights and responsibilities from a global perspective”. Paper presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, 2006 November 4-8, Boston, MA (134th Meeting).
• Hemmings, J, Mwaungulu J, Crampin A, Kalua C. “I Dreamt I was Holding a Baby Boy”: Infertility in Northern Malawi. Paper presented at the European Population Conference, 21-24 June 2006, Liverpool, UK.
• Hemmings, Joanne. ‘Healthy Life Expectancy’ PostNote (four-page briefing document) No. 257, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, February 2006.
• Lynda Clarke, Margaret O’Brien, Randal D. Day, Hugo Godwin, Jo Connolly, Joanne Hemmings, and Terri Van Leeson. “Fathering behind Bars in English Prisons: Imprisoned Fathers’ Identity and Contact with Their Children” (221-241). Fathering Vol 3 (3) 2005
• Hemmings J, Banda D, Crampin A, Jahn A, Ngwira L. “Infertility and women’s life courses in northern Malawi” Paper presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population XXV International Population Conference. Tours, France, July 18-23, 2005.
• Hemmings, J and J Wilkinson. ‘What is a Public Health Observatory?’ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2003; 57; 324-326.