Events

(March 2011) On March 10, 2011, the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) held a Plenary in celebration of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. After a welcome by Michal Avni, senior gender advisor at USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health in the Global Hea…

(March 2011) American industries rely on good data to make targeted, wise investments. These economic, demographic and social data are largely derived from the American Community Survey (ACS). On March 7, 2011, the Annie E. Casey Foundation sponsored two congressional briefings on the importance of …

(January 2011) American families have changed dramatically in recent years. As part of PRB’s Policy Seminar series, professor of social work and public affairs at Columbia University Jane Waldfogel described four major types of work-family policies: parental leave; other types of paid leave; f…

(November 2010) What are the most promising new developments in contraceptive research and implementation? What are current priorities in the research and development of new contraceptives? What are some of the new contraceptive technologies currently in the field? These questions were addressed by …

(November 2010) According to Linda Waite, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, a large share of the older population in the United States is doing well, overall. In her presentation as part of PRB’s Policy Seminar Series, Waite described an effort by her and colleagues to categ…

(July 2010) On July 12, 2010, the Population Association of America sponsored a presentation on recession, recovery, and families in the United States. Presenters were Matthew Stagner, University of Chicago; Michael Hurd, director of the Center for the Study of Aging at the RAND Corporation; Kathlee…

(September 2010) The gap between those working on climate change issues and those in international development needs to be bridged. Karen Hardee, visiting Senior Fellow at PRB, identified existing connections between climate change and sustainable development, and recommended stronger and more durab…

(March 2010) The Malthus Lectureship, a partnership between the Population Reference Bureau and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), promotes the study of the connections among nutrition, food, agriculture, and population and invites an outstanding scholar or policymaker to give…

According to Davidson Gwatkin, Senior Fellow at the Results for Development Institute, most global health inequalities are attributable to differences among groups within developing countries. In this webcast, Gwatkin provides evidence to support his claims about inequalities in health status and se…

PRB’s 2009 World Population Data Sheet was released at a press briefing at the National Press Club, in Washington, DC, on Aug. 12, 2009. This year’s theme: As World Population Approaches 7 Billion, the Youth Population Is More and More Concentrated in Africa and Asia. Video…

(June 2009) Every year, 265,000 mothers die in childbirth and 4.5 million children die before the age of 5 from preventable causes in sub-Saharan Africa. To discuss these stark facts and the benefits of family planning programs to address the health of mothers and children, three researchers address…

(May 2009) On May 14, demographic and environmental experts discussed the health effects of climate change on the world’s growing urban population at the symposium “Climate Change and Urban Adaptation: Managing Unavoidable Health Risks in Developing Countries.” The symposium was jo…