The Health Transition Centre was established in 1988 by The Australian National University as part of the ANU’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health to foster work on the cultural, social and behavioral aspects of health. The Health Transition Review was published from the Australian National University, 1991–1997 (Vols. 1–7) with John C. Caldwell, editor and various co-editors. Health transition refers to the broad study of mortality transition involving interaction of cultural, social and behavioral factors with economic and medical factors to produce declines in morbidity and mortality.