Population Council Research that makes a difference

2013 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA)
New Orleans, Louisiana
(offsite link)

2013 Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Session presented by the International Rescue Committee, Innovations for Poverty Action, The World Bank, and Population Council: "Franchising their way to success: Measuring the effectiveness of microfranchise" (9/10, 4:00–5:30 pm)

Nambula Kachumi and Ashley Orton
Speakers: "Asset building for vulnerable young women" (9/11, 10:45 am–12:15 pm)

XI International AIDS Impact Conference
Barcelona, Spain
(offsite link)

Oral presentation: "Acceptability and feasibility of the Wisebag compared to other methods for assessing adherence to daily microbicide gel use in the Bronx, NY" (Authors: Helen Cheng, Barbara Mensch, Lauren Katzen, Barbara Friedland, Sarah Littlefield, Niall Buckley, Lilia Espinoza, Marla Keller, Betsy Herold, and Mark Einstein) (9/30, 2:30–4:00 pm)

InsideNGO Annual Conference
Washington, DC
(more) (offsite link)

International Youth Day + Social Good: 'Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward'
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Mark Montgomery, presenter

August Nairobi Technology Salon—"Silicon Savannah: Fact or Fiction?"
Population Council
Nairobi, Kenya
8:00–9:30 am
(offsite link)

XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference
Busan, South Korea
(more) (offsite link)

7th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(more) (offsite link)

July Technology Salon NYC—"ICT4Youth: What is the reality in Indonesia, Sweden, Sierra Leone and Uganda?"
Population Council
New York, New York
9:00–10:30 am
(offsite link)

STI & AIDS World Congress 2013
Vienna, Austria
(offsite link)

Nina Derby, presenter:

Oral session—"A potent combination microbicide gel inhibits SHIV-RT, HSV-2, and HPV infections in vivo" (7/16, 10:30 am–12:00 pm) (authors: Larisa Kizima, Aixa Rodriguez, Jessica Kenney, Mayla Hsu, Nina Derby, Olga Mizenina, Radhika Menon, Thomas Zydowsky, Melissa Robbiani, Jose Fernandez-Romero)

Poster—"In vitro and in vivo evaluation of Carrageenan-based formulations to prevent HPV acquisition" (authors: Aixa Rodriquez, Olga Mizenina, Larisa Kizima, Keith Levendosky, Kyle Kleinbeck, Nina Derby, Melissa Robbiani, Betsy Herold, Thomas Zydowsky, and Jose Fernandez-Romero)

Poster—"A repeated low dose co-challenge model of SHIV-RT and HSV-2 in rhesus macaques" (authors: Jessica Kenney, Nina Derby, Meropi Aravantinou, Shashank Rana, Jeffrey Lifson, Michael Piatak Jr., Agegnehu Gettie, James Blanchard, and Melissa Robbiani)

Reproductive Health Seminar Series
Rockefeller University
New York, New York

Malini Laloraya
Speaker: "New molecules critical to embryo implantation and a defective miRNA-mRNA network at Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)— a disorder characterized with compromised fertility" (more)

The Society for the Study of Reproduction 46th Annual Meeting: "Reproductive Health: Nano to Global"
Montreal, Canada
(offsite link)

Patricia Morris, co-author
"Small ubiquitin-like modifier (sumo) involvement in spindle abnormalities associated with post-ovulatory aging of mouse oocytes" (presenter: Weber B. Feitosa)

"Growth factor signalling and cell cycle kinetics modeling in human endometrial cells: Effects of long-term selective progesterone receptor modulator exposure"(presenter: Ryoei Hara)

Building an AIDS-free Generation: Science, Care & More
Washington, DC
8:30–11:30 am
(offsite link)

Paul Hewett
Presenter: "Behavioral dimensions of scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention" (10:25 am)

Girls on the Move: Adolescent Girls and Migration in the Developing World
World Bank Gender and Development Series
Washington, DC
12:30–2:00 pm

Mark Montgomery and Miriam Temin, speakers

Ishraq Program Dissemination Event
Closing ceremony organized by the Population Council and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Cairo, Egypt
(project information)

Harm Reduction International Conference 2013
Vilnius, Lithuania
(offsite link)

Poster sessions:

"HIV prevalence and risk behaviors among young injecting drug users in Nigeria" (Authors: George Eluwa, Lolade Abiodun, Sylvia Adebajo, I. Kawu, and Babatunde Ahonsi)

"Alcohol use and sexual risk behaviors among female sex workers in Nigeria" (Authors: Sylvia Adebajo, George Eluwa, Lolade Abiodun, and Babatunde Ahonsi)

Vision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriage
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
6th floor, Flom Auditorium
Washington, DC
2:00–4:30 pm
(offsite link)

Annabel Erulkar
Speaker: "Implementing programs in child marriage 'hotspots' in Africa"

6th South African AIDS Conference
Durban, South Africa
(more) (offsite link)

Regional Conference on Population and Development in the Arab States: Development Challenges and Population Dynamics in a Changing Arab World
Cairo, Egypt
(offsite link)

Addressing Disrespect and Abuse During Childbirth
Co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and United Nations Population Fund as part of the Global Health Initiative's "Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health" series
Woodrow Wilson Center, 5th Floor Conference Room
Washington, DC
12:00–2:00 pm
(offsite link)

Speakers: Charlotte Warren, Kathleen Hill, Lynn Freedman, and Mande Limbu

Launch of the new Girls Count report—Girls on the Move: Adolescent Girls and Migration in the Developing World
Organized by the Population Council, the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, the Nike Foundation, and the United Nations Foundation
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor
Washington, DC
3:00–5:00 pm
(offsite link) (more)

Opening remarks: Peter Donaldson

Presentation of key findings by authors: Miriam Temin and Mark R. Montgomery

Expert panel: Kathy Calvin, Ann K. Blanc, Luca Dall’Oglio, Jeni Klugman, and Blair Ruble (moderator)

Is Access Enough? Understanding and Addressing Unmet Need in Family Planning
Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Reproductive Health in collaboration with the STEP UP consortium, Population Council and African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)
Nanyuki, Kenya
(offsite link)

Ajay Kumar Singh
Presenter: "The spatial pattern and correlates of unmet need for family planning in India: Implications for program"

Launch of the new Girls Count report—Girls on the Move: Adolescent Girls and Migration in the Developing World
Organized by the Population Council, the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, the Nike Foundation, and the United Nations Foundation
Population Council
New York, New York
12:00–2:00 pm
(more)

Opening remarks: Peter Donaldson

Presentation of key findings by authors: Miriam Temin and Mark R. Montgomery

Expert panel: Babatunde Osotimehin, Adrienne Germain, Yasmeen Hassan, and Ann K. Blanc (moderator)

First Global Conference on Contraception, Reproductive and Sexual Health Copenhagen, Denmark
(offsite link)

Ruth Merkatz
Presenter: "Efficacy, safety and acceptability of a new contraceptive vaginal ring delivering 150 μg Nestorone(r) and 15 μg Ethinyl Estradiol daily: Results from a multi-center open label Phase 3 clinical trial" (5/23, 3:00 pm)

Congress Session 11: New Research in Contraceptive Technology and Future Developments (5/24, 11:00 am–12:30 pm):

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Workshop organizer and co-chair (with Philippe Bouchard)
Presenter: "Emerging science in contraceptive technology" (11:50 am–12:15 pm)

John Townsend
Presenter: "Global unmet needs for contraception, reproductive health and justice" (11:00–11:25 am)

Society Arranged Session 8: A Rights-based Approach to the Provision of Long-acting Reversible Contraception (LARCs) (5/24, 2:30–4:00 pm):

John Townsend
Presenter: "Good clinical practice: What role do rights and justice have in expanding access to LARCs?" (5/24, 2:30–2:55 pm)

Women Deliver 2013
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(more) (offsite link)

Immune Activation in HIV Infection: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Implications (D2)
Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology
Breckenridge, Colorado
(offsite link)

Diana Goode
Short talk and poster presenter: "HSV-2 infection of the vaginal mucosa ex vivo increases the frequency of alpha4beta7+ T cells"
(Short Talk—Session: Immune Activation and Co-Infections, 4/6, 8:00–11:15 am; Poster Session 1, 4/4, 7:30–10:00 pm)

Natalia Guerra-Perez
Poster presenter: "Retinoic acid conditioned-dendritic cells increase HIV-1 infection" (Poster Session 2, 4/5, 7:30–10:00 pm)

Elena Martinelli
Panel chair: "Mucosal Immunity and HIV" (4/5, 5:00–7:00 pm)

Poster presenter: "The frequency of alpha4beta7high memory CD4+ T cells correlates with susceptibility to SIV rectal infection" and "HSV-2 infection of the vaginal mucosa ex vivo increases the frequency of alpha4beta7+ T cells" (Poster Session 2, 4/5, 7:30–10:00 pm)

The Legal, Ethical, Gender, Human Rights and Public Health Implications of HIV Self-testing Scale-up
Symposium hosted by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, with WHO and the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Geneva, Switzerland

Samuel Kalibala
Presenter: "HIV self testing among health workers in Kenya" (12:00 pm)

Population Association of America Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana
(more)

InsideNGO New York IT Roundtable
Hosted by the Population Council's IT Department
Rockefeller University
New York, New York

Deborah Boccio
Presenter: "eVault EndPoint Protection—How we built a global centralized dashboard for securing laptops"

Samir Souidi
Presenter: "Android CAPI/ACASI—A customized Android application built for data collection in the field"

The Transformational Power of Health IT: Driving Engagement, Outcomes & Insights
HealthTech Council meeting
Chicago, Illinois
(more)

Stanley Mierzwa
Presenter: "The mobile revolution: Remote care and adherence/acceptability data collection without compromising security and quality" (co-presenter: Deborah Lafky)

Forty-sixth Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development
New York, New York
(offsite link)

Fifty-seventh Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
New York, New York
(offsite link)

Girls Growing up Free of Violence: Promoting Tolerance, Equality and Respect
Side event at the UN Commission on the Status of Women
UNICEF
New York, New York
(more)

Sajeda Amin, panelist

Voices of Influence
Screening and panel presentation in celebration of International Women’s Day, hosted by Bloomberg
New York, New York
(more)

Judith Bruce, panelist

Reproductive Health Seminar Series
Rockefeller University
New York, New York

Genevieve Neal-Perry
Speaker: "Vitamin D and reproduction: A role beyond bone health" (more)

15th World Congress on Human Reproduction
Venice, Italy
(offsite link)

Patricia L. Morris
Author: "SUMO dynamics during mouse pre-implantation embryo development" (co-author and presenter: Weber Beringui Feitosa, Council postdoctoral Bixby fellow)

9th Annual Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy: "Human Capital Development for Sustained Economic Growth"
Lahore, Pakistan
(more)

Zeba Sathar
Presenter: "Struggling against the odds of poverty, access and gender: Secondary schooling for girls" (3/20, 11:00 am) (co-author: Maqsood Sadiq)

The National Transfer Accounts for Africa: A Research Proposal Development Workshop
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Ali Rashed, partner

East African Community Health and Scientific Conference
Kigali, Rwanda

Lucy Kanya, presenter

Child Research and Practice Forum
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Annabel Erulkar
Speaker: "Using research to build programs for child domestic workers and other marginalized girls in poor urban areas of Ethiopia"

Private Sector Working Group Quarterly Meeting: Financial Protection Panel
Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project, USAID
Washington, DC
(more)

Charlotte Warren
Presenter: "The differences in out-of-pocket expenditures on reproductive health services following introduction of a reproductive health voucher program in Kenya"

International Conference on Repromics—OMICS in Reproduction and Development
Thiruvananthapuram, India
(offsite link)

Patricia L. Morris
Plenary lecturer: "Human fertility and infertility: A repromic view from both sides"

23rd Annual Meeting of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility (ISSRF)
Thiruvananthapuram, India
(offsite link)

Patricia L. Morris
Panelist: "Embryonic stem cells—Pluripotency to differentiation"

Post-18th Amendment Scenario for Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Pakistan
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan

Zeba Sathar
Keynote speaker: "Family planning as a key strategy for reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity"

Biomedical R&D for Novel Fertility Regulators with Health Benefits
Population Council
New Delhi, India

Patricia L. Morris, speaker

Evaluation Conclave 2013
Kathmandu, Nepal
(offsite link)

Ajay Kumar Singh
Panelist: "How to design and conduct gender responsive evaluations" (2/27)

Girl-Centered Programming: What Are We Really Doing?
Online discussion hosted by FHI 360, on behalf of USAID’s Interagency Youth Working Group, the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, and the Youth Health and Rights Coalition
(offsite link)

Moderators: Joyce Adolwa, Wendy Baldwin, Allison M. Glinski, Kelly Hallman, Paulina Ndawala, Amelia Peltz, and Suzanne Petroni

National Dissemination on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition: Status and Priorities
Islamabad, Pakistan

Zeba Sathar
Panelist: "Present and future of RMNCH and nutrition in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa: What can health professionals and policy makers do?"

Global Maternal Health Conference 2013: Improving Quality of Care
Arusha, Tanzania
(more)

Global Community of Concern on Respectful Maternity Care
Special session at the Global Maternal Health Conference
Arusha, Tanzania
(PDF)

2nd International Congress on Women's Health and Unsafe Abortion
Bangkok, Thailand
(offsite link)

Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Discussant: Symposium 1: IPAS—Expanding the Provider Base for Safe Abortion Care (1/23, 1:30–3:00 pm)

A.J. Francis Zavier
Presenter: "Adoption and continuation of post-abortion contraception: Evidence from rural settings in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, India" (Free Communication 1) (1/23, 3:10 pm)

Claudia Diaz
Presenter: "Can nurses offer early medical abortion as safely and effectively as physicians? A randomized control trial in collaboration with the Mexico City Ministry of Health" (1/24, 1:30–3:00 pm) (Symposium 7: WHO (II)—Moving Beyond Physicians)

Seventh Annual Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development
Oslo, Norway
(offsite link)

Kelly Hallman
Session organizer: "Impact of policy experiments on maternal and child health: Evidence from three regions in Africa" (1/26, 9:00–10:30 am)

Consultation on Social and Behavioral Change Interventions for Enhancing Child Survival in South Asia
New Delhi, India

Anrudh K. Jain
Presenter: "Challenges in impact evaluation" (PDF)

mHealth Summit
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Reproductive Health and the mHealth Revolution
Population Council Symposium
Washington, DC
(PDF)

Safe and Smart Savings Products: Delivering Solutions for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in Kenya and Uganda
Dissemination event sponsored by the Population Council
Nairobi, Kenya
(related project)

Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
Beijing, China
(more) (offsite link)

Inter-Ministerial Conference on "Evidence for Action: South-South Collaboration for ICPD beyond 2014"
Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ian Askew
Presenter: "The role of research evidence in scaling up and replicating family planning programmes" (PDF)

Postabortion Care (PAC) Consortium meetings
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

ExpandNet Workshop: "Scaling up comprehensive PAC services" (11/12)

Technical Exchange: "The unfinished agenda of postabortion care" (11/13)

November Nairobi Technology Salon
Hosted by the Population Council
Nairobi, Kenya
8:00–9:30 am
(RSVP)

Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Annual Meeting
Paris, France
(offsite link)

Market Development Approaches Working Group (10/1, 11:00 am–5:30 pm)
Ian Askew and Bonnie Keith, facilitators

Choice and Equity: Bellagio and Beyond (10/5, 9:05–10:05 am)
Anrudh Jain, keynote speaker: "Encouraging method choice" (PDF)
Ian Askew, panelist: "Monitoring and accountability"

22nd International Congress on Thrombosis
Nice, France
(offsite link)

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Presenter: "Estrogens, progestins, and estrogenicity in contraception"

XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Rome, Italy
(more) (offsite link)

International Day of the Girl: "Telling Our Stories"
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Co-hosted by USAID and The Population Council

Annabel Erulkar
Presenter: " The diversity of girls in Ethiopia"

2012 FIAPAC Congress: "Unwanted pregnancy: A fact of life"
Edinburgh, Scotland
(offsite link)

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Presenter: "Update on contraceptive development"

Holding on to the Gains of Family Planning for Women in Egypt
Organized by the Population Council, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, Faculty of Medicine–Assiut University, and UNFPA
Cairo, Egypt

American Society of Reproductive Medicine Annual Meeting
San Diego, California
(offsite link)

Patricia L. Morris
Speaker: "Contraception: Cell cycle kinetics, nuclear receptor and gene expression in human endometrial cells" (co-authors: KeumSil Hwang, Cathy Rapelje, and Lyann Mitchell)

International Committee for Contraception Research (ICCR) meeting
New York, New York

Régine Sitruk-Ware, chairperson and organizer

30th Annual Symposium for Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS
San Antonio, Texas
(offsite link)

Abenan Louise Ouattara
Oral presenter: "MIV-150 delivered from an intravaginal ring inhibits SHIV-RT infection in macaque vaginal mucosa" (10/26)
(co-authors: Patrick Barnable, Matthew Bigbee, Paul Mawson, Samantha Seidor, Thomas M. Zydowsky, Larisa Kizima, Aixa Rodriguez, Jose Fernandez-Romero, Agegnehu Gettie, James Blanchard, Melissa Robbiani, and Natalia Teleshova)

Poster presenter: "Zinc acetate dihydrate inhibits SHIV-RT infection in macaque vaginal explants and induces immune changes in the mucosa" (10/25 and 10/26) (co-authors: Guillermo Villegas, Patrick Barnable, Daniel Goldman, Radhika Menon, Samantha Seidor, Thomas M. Zydowsky, Larisa Kizima, Aixa Rodriguez, Jose Fernandez-Romero, Agegnehu Gettie, James Blanchard, Melissa Robbiani, and Natalia Teleshova)

American Public Health Association (APHA) 140th Annual Meeting & Expo
San Francisco, California
(more) (offsite link)

Stakeholders’ Consultation—Expanding Contraceptive Choice in India: Focus on New and Underutilized Methods
Hosted by the Family Planning Association of India (FPAI)
New Delhi, India

Saroj Pachauri
Inaugural speech: "Key issues and priority strategies for expanding contraceptive choice in India"

India-Cambridge Summit: India in the Global Age
New Delhi, India
(offsite link)

Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Panelist: "Evidence, social policy and the challenge of development"

British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom
(offsite link)

Mark Montgomery
Presenter: "Urban migration of adolescent girls in developing countries" (Co-authors: Deborah Balk and Zhen Liu) (9/11, 1:30–3:00 pm)

Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Kelly Hallman
Panelist: "Exploring the intersection of adolescent girls’ reproductive health and economic empowerment" (Track 4: Adolescent Girls and Young Women) (9/12, 9:00–10:30 am)

Karen Austrian
Panelist: "Replicating youth financial services: Lessons learned and new innovations" (Track 2: Financial Services and Capabilities) (9/12, 11:00 am–12:30 pm)

Integration for Impact: Reproductive Health and HIV Services in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nairobi, Kenya
(more) (offsite link)

Endocrinology and Reproductive Biology Seminar Series
Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research
New York, New York

Richard M. Schultz
Speaker: "From egg to embryo: A peripatetic journey" (more)

International Conference on Gender Based Violence
Nairobi, Kenya
(offsite link)

Increasing Use of Reproductive Health Services through Community-based and Health Care Financing Programmes: Impact and Sustainability
The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Reproductive Health in collaboration with the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol Unversity
Bangkok, Thailand
(more)

Linking Action on Poverty and Child Health
Hosted by the Overseas Development Institute and Oak Foundation
London, England
(offsite link)

Annabel Erulkar, speaker

High Impact Practices in Family Planning
Meeting sponsored by USAID and UNFPA

Anrudh Jain
Presenter: "Quality of care" (PDF)

Family Planning Summit
Hosted by The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
London, England

7th International Workshop on HIV Transmission
Affiliated event of AIDS 2012
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Mayla Hsu
Presenter: "A MIV-150/ZA/CG gel blocks SHIV-RT and reduces HSV-2 transmission in a nonhuman primate model" (Abstract no. O_05) (Session: Prevention of Transmission, 7/19, 11:15 am)

Children and HIV: Closing the Gap—Ending Vertical Transmission through Community Action
Affiliated event of AIDS 2012
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Katie Schenk
Presenter: "How community-systems strengthening is a critical factor in promoting uptake in vertical transmission services" (co-presenters: Muhadil Shemsanga and Ade Fakoya) (7/21, 10:00 am–12:00 pm)

HIVCore Operations Research Workshop
Affiliated event of AIDS 2012
Washington, DC
(more)

XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012)
Washington, DC
(more) (offsite link)

Youth and Their Money: New Insights on the Financial Lives of Youth in Developing Countries
New America Foundation
Washington, DC
2:00–5:00 pm
(offsite link)

Kelly Hallman
Moderator, Panel 1: "Understanding demand" (2:15 pm)

Strengthening GBV and HIV Integration and Responses in sub-Saharan Africa
Nairobi, Kenya

Workshop convened by Liverpool VCT, Care, and Treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative

Co-sponsored by Comic Relief through Trocaire, United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Elton John AIDS Foundation, and Population Council

Ian Askew
Presenter: "State of the evidence: What are the research gaps and priorities for driving forward the GBV/HIV in sub-Saharan Africa?"

Chi-Chi Undie
Presenter: "Feasibility of GBV screening and responses in health care settings"

Discussant: "Scaling up GBV integration in HIV services: Models and lessons"

Saiqa Mullick
Chair, Day 2 of workshop

Stakeholders’ Consultation on Unmet Need of Family Planning Services in Pakistan
Lahore, Pakistan

Zeba Sathar, speaker

Market Development Approaches Working Group Meeting, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition
Menlo Park, California

Ian Askew
Presenter: "Why contraceptives aren't used and implications for market development" (PDF)

Maternal Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Unfinished Agenda
Women Deliver Regional Consultation
Mexico City, Mexico
(PDF of agenda: English; Spanish)

11th European Meeting Days of the French Society of Gynecology
Paris, France
(offsite link)

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Presenter: "Protéomic and genomic: Contraception for the future?" (Session—Contraception in Europe in 2012)

European Population Conference 2012
Stockholm, Sweden
(more) (offsite link)

Celebrating Men as Fathers and Allies in Gender Equality and Improved Health
Organized by USAID, PEPFAR, U.S. State Department, Promundo, and Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG)
The National Press Club
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

John Townsend, presenter

Shaping the Operations Research Agenda for Women-centered ARV-based Prevention Products: Gels and Rings
Population Council
New York, New York
(invitation-only event)

UK Parliamentary Hearings on Child Marriage
London, England

Annabel Erulkar, oral evidence

12th Congress of the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health
Athens, Greece
(offsite link)

Régine Sitruk-Ware, member of the expert group session on hormonal contraception

2012 Clinton Global Initiative Mid-Year meeting
New York, New York
(members-only event)

Cynthia Lloyd, Population Council Consulting Senior Associate
Anchor speaker on girls' education

Japanese Society of Andrology
Osaka, Japan

Patricia L. Morris
Symposium speaker: "Male fertility and infertility: A molecular and cellular view from both sides" (11:00 am–12:00 pm)

Demographic Dividend in Pakistan
Seminar hosted by the Population Council
Islamabad, Pakistan

John Bongaarts, presenter

The 17th Midwives Conference
Kakamega, Kenya

Wilson Liambila
Presenter: "Increasing access to FP & RH services through task-sharing between community midwives and CHWs" (co-presenters: Judith Maua and Ruth Ngechu)

Population Association of America Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California
(more) (offsite link)

Asia Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care
Dhaka, Bangladesh
(offsite link to live webcast)

Mary Ellen Stanton and Charlotte Warren
Presenters: "Respectful care at birth: Research and advocacy" (5/4, 5:30 pm)

Sharif Hossain
Presenter: "Experience implementing PE/E management program in Nigeria" (5/5, 1:15 pm)

Ubaidur Rob
Moderator: "Implementing MNH programs" (5/6, 1:45 pm)

Licensing Executives Society (LES) 2012 Spring Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts
(offsite link)

George Young
Moderator: "Early-stage deal structures" (5/17, 10:15–11:30 am) (co-author: Nancy Juette)

Safe Motherhood: Achievements and Challenges
Roundtable discussion sponsored by UNFPA and The Daily Star
Dhaka, Bangladesh
(offsite link)

Ubaidur Rob, presenter

Family Planning and Results-Based Financing: Opportunities and Challenges
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Washington, DC
12:00–2:00 pm
(offsite link)

Ben Bellows
Presenter: "Results-based financing and family planning: Evidence from reproductive health vouchers programs" (offsite PDF)

Improving Maternal Health with Commodities
Policy dialogue co-hosted by PATH and Population Council
New York, New York
9:00 am–1:00 pm

2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference
San Francisco, California
(offsite link)

Stan Mierzwa
Presenter: "Metrics: How am I doing? How's my program/project doing? How's my nonprofit doing?" (Leadership breakout session) (4/5, 1:30–3:00 pm)

National Workshop on Contemporary Issues in Youth Employment in Pakistan: Innovative Models of Youth Engagement and Participation for Empowerment of Youth

Zeba Sathar
Presenter: "7 billion globally, what it means for Pakistan"

2012 International Microbicides Conference
Sydney, Australia
(more) (offsite link)

100th International Committee for Contraception Research: Vision for Contraceptive Research and Development
New York, New York
(more)

Régine Sitruk-Ware, chairperson and organizer

Forty-fifth Session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development: "Adolescents and youth"
United Nations
New York, New York
(offsite link)

Shireen Jejeebhoy, keynote speaker

Nigeria Behind the Headlines: Population, Health, Natural Resources,
and Governance
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Washington, DC
8:30 am–4:30 pm
(offsite link to meeting webcast)

Andrew Karlyn
Chair, Panel IV: "The health of Nigeria" (3:15 pm)

15th World Congress of Gynecological Endocrinology
Florence, Italy
(offsite link)

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Presenter: "Progestins and the brain" (Session—Progesterone Receptor: The Next Target for Gynecological Disorders)

Promoting Recovery after War: Microenterprises for Vulnerable Women? Discussion of Preliminary Results from a Randomized Impact Evaluation in Northern Uganda
Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Eric Green, speaker

Family Planning Revitalized: The FALAH Experience
Seminar on the Family Advancement for Life and Health (FALAH) project
Islamabad, Pakistan
(more)

Workshop on Adaptation of “It’s All One Curriculum” in Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh
(agenda)

Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage
Regional Strategic Planning Meeting
New Delhi, India
(offsite link)

Laila Rahman and Shireen Jejeebhoy, speakers

Social Media Week
Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington, DC
(offsite link)

FastForward Health Presents: Stories of Global Health Innovation
Film Screenings
Short film: "Kadi: Saving mothers and babies, one voucher at a time"
(New York, 2/15, 8:00–10:00 pm) (free registration)

John Townsend
Participant in moderated discussion following the screening

22nd Annual Meeting of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction & Fertility (ISSRF) and the International Conference on Reproductive Health with Emphasis on Strategies for Family Planning
New Delhi, India
(offsite link)

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Presenter: "New vaginal ring methods"

Microbicides Trial Network (MTN) 2012 Annual Meeting
Bethesda, Maryland
(offsite link)

Barbara Mensch
Presenter: "Behavior and characteristics associated with HIV-1 drug resistance within a female population screening for a microbicide trial in Durban, South Africa" (Plenary Session 1) (2/20, 9:15–9:30 am)

Molecular and Cellular Biology R&D
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Patricia L. Morris
Speaker: "Human fertility and infertility: A view from both sides" (MCB Seminar Series)

Sustainable Development Seminar Series: The Population Bomb—Defused or Still Ticking?
Columbia University
New York, New York
(offsite link to seminar recap)

John Bongaarts and Mark Montgomery, speakers

Fifty-sixth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
United Nations
New York, New York
(offsite link)

Judith Bruce
Panelist: "Financing powerful women: Integrating microfinancing and women's health" (organized by Women's World Banking)

Global Forum on Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Reproductive Health
Sponsored by The Wellcome Trust, US Agency for International Development (USAID), Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations (CAMI), Initiative for Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (IMPT), and Population Council
London, England
(offsite link) (agenda)

Martha Brady
Session chair: "Regulatory pathways for MPTs"

American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado
(offsite link)

Patricia L. Morris
Presenter: "Smt3 posttranslational modifications mediate critical regulatory events during drosophila spermiogenesis and spermatogenesis" (co-authors: Janet Rollins and KeumSil Hwang) (12/4, 1:30 pm)

Research workshop: "Migrant girls and little maids in Africa"
Side meeting of the Sixth African Population Conference
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
(offsite link)

16th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(more) (offsite link)

2011 mHealth Summit
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Andrew Karlyn
Poster presenter: "The use of SMS technology to facilitate community-based surveillance for maternal and newborn health in rural communities in northern Nigeria" and "Geo-mapping female injecting drug users in Nigeria: Using crowd-sourcing to reach a hidden and vulnerable population across four cities"

Sixth African Population Conference
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
(offsite link)

Ubaidur Rob, Laila Rahman, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Ismat Ara Hena, and Farhana Akter
Authors: "Increasing utilization of maternal, newborn and child health services in Bangladesh: Performance-based incentive works" (Abstract no. 110379) (Session 504: "Policy, system, and service level drivers of progress in achieving MDGs 4 and 5")

Francis Obare, Anke van der Kwaak, and Harriet Birungi
Authors: "Recurrence of unintended pregnancies among HIV-positive adolescent girls in Kenya: Extent and implications for birth outcomes" (Abstract no. 110216) (Session 605: "Fertility among teens and young adults")

Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program Seminar Series
Population Council
New York, New York

Robert McDonald
Speaker: "Getting freshwater to another 3 billion urbanites: Global urban growth and freshwater provision" (more)

International Conference on Population Dynamics, Climate Change
and Sustainable Development
Jointly organized by the Government of the Republic of South Africa and Partners in Population and Development (PPD)
Pretoria, South Africa
(offsite link)

Ian Askew
Member, Declaration Drafting Committee

Intervenant, Session III: "Adolescents, youths, women, displaced and ageing population: Prospects for sustainable development" (11/2, 8:30–10:30 am)

Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Reproductive Health
2011 Symposium
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Ruth Merkatz
Panelist, panel discussion 3: "Incorporating the perspective of product developers/researchers to ensure successful MPTs" (11/3, 2:45–3:45 pm)

Martha Brady
Chair, panel discussion 4: "The critical path for MPTs: Current regulatory pathway for MPTs in different global settings" (11/3, 4:15–5:15 pm)

Panelist, opening plenary 2: "Introduction of the first MPT: Lessons learned to help secure the successful introduction of and adherence to Tenofovir" (11/4, 9:15–10:00 am)

Barbara Friedland
Poster presenter: "Carraguard trial participants' preferences for a dual protection microbicide gel" (11/3, 5:45–8:00 pm)

Thomas Zydowsky
Poster presenter: "An optimized MIV-150/zinc acetate (ZA) gel blocks SHIV-RT and HSV-2 infection in vivo" (11/3, 5:45–8:00 pm)

Chaire Quetelet 2011: Urbanisation, migrations internes et comportements démographiques
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
(offsite link)

Mark Montgomery and Deborah Balk
Presenters: "How much does migration contribute to city growth in poor countries?" (11/16, 11:00 am)

"Urbanization and internal migration in the developing world: What can we learn from censuses and surveys?" (11/17, 11:00 am)

Youth Leadership in Preventing and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
Official Commemoration of the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and 15th Anniversary of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
New York, New York
10:00 am–12:00 pm

Irma Puac, panelist (UN Trust Fund grantee and representative of the Population Council, Guatemala)

2011 International Conference on Family Planning
Dakar, Senegal
(more) (offsite link)

2011 EC Jamboree
Combined Annual Meeting of the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception and the American Society for Emergency Contraception
New York, New York

Martha Brady
Presenter: "Key opinion leaders (KOLs): Who are they, what do they think why they matter?" (PDF) (Session: "EC supply and demand around the world") (10/4, 3:45–4:45 pm)

Sharif Hossain
Presenter: "Emergency contraception in Bangladesh: Introduction, scaling up, current situation, and lessons learned" (Panel session: "Case studies from around the world") (10/5, 11:15 am–12:30 pm)

Herrenhausen Symposium on Reproductive Biology
Kloster Seeon, Germany
(offsite link)

Patricia L. Morris
Presenter: "Regulatory hurdles and ethical issues in reproductive biomedicine" (co-author: John W. Townsend) (10/4, 5:00 pm)

Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum 2011: Moving the Agenda Forward
Cape Town, South Africa
(more) (offsite link)

Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program Seminar Series
Population Council
New York, New York

Michaela Gulemetova
Speaker: "Evaluating the impact of conditional cash transfer programs on adolescent decisions about marriage and fertility: The case of Oportunidades" (more)

CORE Group Fall Meeting
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

James Foreit
Presenter: "Benefits and pitfalls of operations research for community-based health programs" (co-presenter: Florence Nyangara) (10/13, 1:30–3:00)

Improving Health Systems Through a Maternal Health Framework:
A Live Conversation with Kenyan Field Workers and Policymakers
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

John Townsend, expert panelist

International Conference on Research, Healthcare and Preventive Measures for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting—and Support for Capacity Strengthening of Leadership and Research in Africa
Nairobi, Kenya

Ian Askew
Chair, keynote addresses (Session 2) (10/17, 12:00–1:00 pm)

Presenter: "Female genital cutting and HIV: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys in sub-Saharan Africa" (Session 3) (10/17, 4:10–4:30 pm)

Presenter: "Socio-cultural aspects and methodologies for evaluation of interventions" (Session 9) (10/18, 4:20–5:00 pm)

Fourth Research Meeting on Unwanted Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion: Public Health Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexico City

Capacity Building Workshop to Enhance Youth Reproductive Health Research in Egypt
Cairo, Egypt
(PDFS: agenda; application; announcement)

Future of Contraception Initiative
Seattle, Washington
(offsite link)

Patricia Morris
Presenter: "Differential nuclear receptor and gene expression in human endometrial adenocarcinoma cells: Regulation by a novel selective progesterone receptor modulator" (Co-authors: KeumSil Hwang, Catherine Rapelje, Lyann Mitchell, and Régine Sitruk-Ware) (10/29)

Session 1—Why Is There an Urgent Need for Improved Family Planning? Global View and Millennium Development Goals (10/29):

John Townsend
Presenter: "Global unmet need (products/services)" (8:00–8:20 am)

Saiqa Mullick
Presenter: "Consequences of non-use of contraception" (8:20–10:00 am)

Session 3—Improving Existing Methods and Adding Benefits to Contraceptive Use (10/29):

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Presenter: "New ring methods" (1:20–3:25 pm)

American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
(more) (offsite link)

Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference 2011
Washington, DC
(offsite link)

Judith Bruce
Presenter, Breakthrough Innovators session (9/8, 9:30–10:00 am)

Eva Roca
Presenter: "Mixed methods: A practical primer" (9/8, 2:15–3:45 pm) (Track 5: Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment)

Karen Austrian
Presenter: "Financial capabilities programs: A comparative analysis of systems and results" (9/9, 2:45–4:15 pm) (Track 2: Financial Services and Capabilities)

"The Structural Drivers of HIV" Conference 2011
University of East Anglia
Norwich, England
(offsite link)

Kelly Hallman
Chair, Session 1: "Social structures and HIV/AIDS" (9/8, 9:45–11:20 am)
Presenter: "First phase evaluation of the Siyakha Nentsha program" (9/9, 11:35 am–12:00 pm)

9th Congress of the European Society of Gynecology
Copenhagen, Denmark
(offsite link)

Society Symposium (SA01) arranged by the Population Council—Contraception Needs and Prevention of Maternal Mortality in Poor Countries (9/8, 11:30 am–1:00 pm):

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Symposium chair and presenter: "Contraceptive research: Meeting the unmet needs for the future"

Ian Askew
Presenter: "Strategies for increasing access to contraception to reduce maternal and newborn mortality"

Régine Sitruk-Ware
Presenter: "New vision for research in contraception" (Plenary Session PS07: "Contraception, Part 1") (9/8, 4:00–5:30 pm)

Chair, Plenary Lecture (PL22): "Selective progestin receptor modulator" (9/10, 5:30–6:00 pm)

Presenter: "Are all estrogens alike?" (Plenary Session PS32: "Progestins in Europe in 2011") (9/11, 9:00–10:30 am)

AIDSImpact 2011
Santa Fe, New Mexico
(offsite link)

Katie Schenk
Presenter: "On the cutting edge: Research to improve the informed consent process for adolescents in Zambia undergoing male circumcision for HIV prevention" (Co-authors: Barbara Friedland, Lou Apicella, Meredith Sheehy, Kelvin Munjile, and Paul Hewett) (Abstract no. 199) (9/13, 11:00 am–1:00 pm) (Oral Session 8.4—Parallel: Biomedical Prevention, Room: Sweeney North)

Ending Child Marriage in Ethiopia in One Generation
Workshop sponsored by DFID, Save the Children UK, and Ethiopia Ministry of Women, Children & Youth Affairs
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Annabel Erulkar
Presenter: "Ending child marriage in one generation: Strategies in good programmatic practice"