Rebecca Kippen is Associate Professor of Demography in the School of Rural Health at Monash University, Bendigo. She holds a Bachelor of Business (Mathematics and Accounting) from La Trobe University, Bendigo, and a PhD (Demography) from the Australian National University, Canberra. She has held research and teaching positions at the Australian National University, and was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, 2010-2014, researching Australia's historical demography. Current research includes health and mortality in regional areas.