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Dissemination: Making Results Known
Dissemination of the Population Council’s findings takes many forms:
meetings with policymakers and program managers around the world;
presentations and distribution of findings at major public health,
social science, and biomedical conferences; media briefings and
interviews; publication of books, working papers, and in two
internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals,
Population and
Development Review
and Studies in
Family Planning;
and on its Web site.
A
June seminar in a series hosted by the Horizons Program and InterAction
about the featured presentation, “Providing Psychosocial Support to
Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Context of the AIDS Epidemic and
Tsunami Disaster,” sought to create dialogue between organizations
working with children in a variety of difficult settings. Information is
available
here.
In
August, the Council’s regional office for Latin America and the
Caribbean hosted its “Second Research Meeting on Unwanted Pregnancy and
Unsafe Abortion” in association with local and international
collaborating organizations. The three-day conference in Mexico City
brought together 230 participants from 22 countries in the region.
An
op-ed piece by Saroj Pachauri, regional director of the Council’s South
and East Asia Region, was published in The Indian Express, a
Mumbai newspaper, shortly before the September 2005 UN World Summit.
Pachauri urged that sexual and reproductive health (RH) issues—omitted
from the Millennium Development Goals yet profoundly influencing
population issues—be included in the UN’s 21st-century agenda. Asked to
write a follow-up article, she was able to report that RH priorities had
been added and acknowledged as essential to meeting the goals.
From April through August, Council program associate Judith Diers made
presentations on child marriage and the “girls left behind” to a variety
of faith-based organizations, including the annual meeting of Christian
Connections for International Health, the Division for Global Missions
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Wheaton College (an
evangelical college), a Lutheran missionary conference, and others as
part of “Reaching Out for Common Ground,” an initiative funded by The
Libra Foundation.
Cynthia B. Lloyd, the Council’s director of social science research and
editor of the National Academies report Growing Up Global: The
Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries, has
presented its findings to policymakers and social scientists in Mexico
City, London, and New Delhi. In the last six months she has made two
presentations to USAID, and one each at the World Bank and Woodrow
Wilson Center. A congressional briefing is scheduled for the beginning
of December.
Régine L. Sitruk-Ware, executive director of the Council’s Product
Research and Development program, chaired a session at the 11th World
Congress on the Menopause symposium in Buenos Aires in October on “The
meaning of individualized therapy for prescribers and patients,” and
delivered four papers.
Ragui Assaad, regional director for West Asia and North Africa, chaired
a panel on “International databases and data sharing” at the Social
Science Research Council’s October conference, “Promoting International
Cooperation in Social Science Research.”
With underwriting from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Council for the first time has posted information in
Arabic on its Web site. The nearly 30 Arabic publications comprising
over 1,300 pages—and expanded Spanish- and French-language sections of
the site—are accessible from
www.popcouncil.org, which serves some 60,000 visits each month.
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