Events

(September 2014) On Aug. 20, 2014, PRB hosted a tweet chat on U.S. population with Mark Mather, demographer and associate vice president of U.S. Programs. Participants used #2014wpds to participate. Here are some highlights. [View the story “PRB Tweet Chat on U.S. Population” on Storify]

From May 29-30, PRB and its partner, Sabre Systems, in conjunction with the U.S. Census Bureau, hosted the first-ever American Community Survey (ACS) Data Users Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference was attended by 284 participants from across the United States and featured more than 40 pres…

(June 2014) The Hopkins Population Center and PRB’s Center for Public Information on Population Research co-hosted a webinar on Thursday, June 26, 2014, from 1-2:15 p.m. (EDT), with funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In this webina…

(February 2014) PRB joins USAID in commemorating Feb. 6, 2014, the 11th anniversary of the first International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and more than…

(January 2014) PRB is joining with FHI 360, on behalf of USAID’s Interagency Youth Working Group, Pathfinder International, and the Youth Health and Rights Coalition, to host an online forum, “Following Through on the 2013 ICFP: Youth, SRHR, and Policy Change.” The forum will be he…

(October 2013) PRB will be at the International Conference on Family Planning 2013: Full Access, Full Choice in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from November 12-15. Staff will also be at the closed-session High-Level Ministerial Meeting (HLMM) on November 12. The theme of the HLMM is “The Youth Dividen…

(June 2013) On June 17, USAID and the IGWG s Task Force on Gender-Based Violence, its co-chairs PRB and CARE, and the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted “Vision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriage” at the Wilson Center. Carla Koppe…

(March 2013) This lively discussion focused on CARE’s work in Sri Lanka and how it has approached the topic of gender-based violence by working on gender norms. This relatively new program encountered societal challenges to bringing up the topic of gender and violence, but has made much progre…

(January 2013) The 7th Annual PopPov Conference was held in Oslo, Norway, in January 2013. In this video, participants shared their reflections on the conference, the importance of the PopPov Network and its research, and how to connect research findings to policy.

(December 2012) To commemorate 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, PAHO, USAID, George Washington University’s Global Women’s Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and the Gender-Based Violence Task Force of the Interagency Gender Working Group, hosted an event focused on the cri…

(November 2012) In commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence the GBV Task Force of the Interagency Gender Working Group held discussion on “Who Takes Care of the Caregivers? Providing Care and Safety for Staff in GBV Settings.” The event featured four presentations…

(October 2012) On Oct. 10, 2012, the Gender-Based Violence Task Force of the IGWG held a brown bag with Dr. Agnes Tiwari, who spoke on “Engaging Men in Prenatal Care for Violence Prevention: Process, Outcomes and Lessons Learned.” Dr. Tiwari gave a brief history of her work at the…