K.G. Santhya Senior Associate

Chair, Session 4—Emotional Wellbeing of Adolescents and Young People

Rajib Acharya Senior Associate

Panelist, Research Leader Session 11—Family Planning in India during FP2020: Progress and Lessons for FP2030 (sponsored by the Population Council)

Francis Obare Onyango Associate II

Presenter: "Women’s autonomy and men’s concerns regarding contraception: Exploring men’s experiences with progesterone vaginal ring in three sub-Saharan African countries" (co-authors: Fatou Mbow, Saumya RamaRao, and Avishek Hazra)

Session 19—Men as Part of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Equation

Madhusudana Battala

Co-author: "Qualitative examination of the role and influence of mothers-in-law on young married couples’ family planning in rural Maharashtra, India" (co-authors: Anvita Dixit [presenter], Mohan Ghule, Namratha Rao, Shahina Begum, Nicole Johns, Niranjan Saggurti, Jay Silverman, Sarah Averbach, and Anita Raj)

Session 25—Challenges Facing the Young in India

Zeba Sathar Senior Associate & Pakistan Country Director

Chair, Session 27—Early Impacts of COVID-19 on Contraceptive and Abortion Services in LMICs

Ricardo Regules Senior Researcher

Co-author: "Multilevel exploration of factors associated with family size preferences and non-response to fertility preference questions in Mexico’s National Demographic Dynamics Survey" (Ana Ruth Escoto Castillo, presenter)

Poster Session 3

Sajeda Amin Senior Associate

Chair, Session 35—Gender Inequalities: Drivers and Impacts

Avishek Hazra Senior Program Officer III

Presenter: "Improving income and empowering self-help group members through a goat rearing initiative in Bihar, India" (co-authors: Shivani Singh, Supriya Verma, Ankit Nanda, Ruchika Mathur, and Surendra Singh)

Poster Session 5

Sana Ashraf

Presenter: "Effect of COVID-19 on birth planning and contraceptive use among married women in urban India: Evidence from nine selected states" (co-authors: Ashita Munjral, Anshul Kastor, Arupendra Mozumdar, Ankita Shukla, Abhishek Kumar, Subrato Mondal, Niranjan Saggurti, and Rajib Acharya)

Session 44—Health and Reproductive Health

Annabel Erulkar Senior Associate & Ethiopia Country Director

Presenter: "Factors associated with depression among young female migrants in Ethiopia" (co-author: Girmay Medhin)

Session 50—Migrant Health

K.G. Santhya Senior Associate

Chair, Session 110—Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People

John Bongaarts Distinguished Scholar

Presenter: "The effects of family planning programs on wanted and unwanted fertility in sub-Saharan Africa"

Session 114—Population Policies and the Demographic Transition

Francis Obare Onyango Associate II

Presenter: "Using data science and machine learning techniques to understand behavioural responses to COVID-19 in Kenya" (co-authors: Louis Graham, George Odwe, Mathilde Schilling, Daniel Mwanga, Jaspreet Singh, and Eva Muluve)

Poster Session 14

Rajib Acharya Senior Associate

Chair, Session 137—Nutritional Status and its Health and Socioeconomic Effects in Asia

Niranjan Saggurti India Country Director

Chair, Research Leader Session 153—Building Trust in India’s Data Ecosystem: A Model of Change

Ricardo Regules Senior Researcher

Presenter: "Differences in future urbanization trends across Mexican states in the context of climate change: Implications for plans, policies, and practice" (co-authors: Hamidreza Zoraghein, Isabel Vieitez, Isaías Torres, and Leiwen Jiang)

Session 156—Urban Exposure to Risk

Ricardo Regules Senior Researcher

Presenter: "Differences in future urbanization trends across Mexican states in the context of climate change: Implications for plans, policies, and practice" (co-authors: Hamidreza Zoraghein, Isabel Vieitez, Isaías Torres, and Leiwen Jiang)

Session 156—Urban Exposure to Risk

Jaleel Ahmad Senior Program Officer

Presenter: "Self-esteem and control over resources are positively associated with reporting of intimate partner violence among married with: Evidence from a cross-sectional survey in rural Uttar Pradesh, India" (co-author: Avishek Hazra)

Session 157—Female Empowerment, Fertility and Sexual Violence

Leiwen Jiang Senior Associate

Presenter: "How Covid-19 may affect population distributions across the US states?" (co-author: Hamidreza Zoraghein)

Session 159—Covid-19: Impacts and Methodological Challenges

Eva Ireri Muluve Program Officer II

Presenter: "Methodological adaptations using mobile phone surveys to inform Covid-19 response in Kenya" (co-authors: Daniel Mwanga, Faith Mbushi, Beth Kangwana, Timothy Abuya, Daniel Osuka, and  Karen Austrian)

Session 159—Covid-19: Impacts and Methodological Challenges

Jessie Pinchoff Associate II; Co-Lead of Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis Initiative

Presenter: "Classifying sub-populations vulnerable to the impacts of COVID-19 in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: An exploratory analysis using unsupervised learning" (co-authors: Nandita Rajshekhar, Christopher Boyer, Timothy Abuya, Eva Muluve, Daniel Mwanga, Faith Mbushi, and Karen Austrian)

Session 159—Covid-19: Impacts and Methodological Challenges

Zeba Sathar Senior Associate & Pakistan Country Director

Presenter: "More than 50% urban, a possible game changer for Pakistan’s slow and staggered fertility transition?" (co-authors: G.M. Arif and Maqsood Sadiq)

Research Leader Session 163: New Evidence on Urban Fertility and Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Supriya Verma

Presenter: "Association of women’s empowerment with reproductive and maternal health practices: Evidence from a cross-sectional study with women self-help group members in rural India" (co-authors: Avishek Hazra and Laili Irani)

Session 178—Empowerment and Equity in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services

Raj Kumar Verma

Presenter: "Effect of behavior change communication through women’s groups on maternal health care practices in rural India: A hierarchical modeling approach"

Session 178—Empowerment and Equity in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services

Madhusudana Battala

Presenter: "Association between the financial security of women and modern contraceptive use in rural Maharashtra, India" (co-authors: Shahina Begum, Anvita Dixit, Sarah Averbach, Nicole Johns, Mohan Ghule, Niranjan Saggurti, and Anita Raj)

Poster Session 21

Arupendra Mozumdar

Presenter: "Urban-rural differences in coverage and utilization of family planning services in India during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020" (co-authors: Abhishek Kumar, Sana Ashraf, Anshul Kastor, Ashita Munjral, Ankita Shukla, Subrato Mondal, Niranjan Saggurti, and Rajib Acharya)

Poster Session 21

Raj Kumar Verma

Presenter: "Stable and non-stable momentum of population growth: Examining the dominating effect of younger age-structure over fast fertility decline in Indian states"

Session 184—Strengthening the Evidence Base for Inclusive Population Policies

George Odwe Senior Program Officer I

Co-author: "Examining strength of future fertility preferences: A longitudinal study in Kenya and Bangladesh" (co-authors: Kazuyo Machiyama [presenter], Joyce N. Mumah, Fauzia Akhter Huda, Yohannes Dibaba Wado, Francis Obare, John B. Casterline, and John G. Cleland)

Session 194—Economy, Education, and Fertility

Sajeda Amin Senior Associate

Chair, Session 198—Disadvantage, Opportunity and Inequality

Lina López-Lalinde

Presenter: "Exploring wealth-based inequalities in the repercussions of COVID-19 mitigation measures on adolescents and young adults in Mexico" (co-authors: Silvana Larrea Schiavon, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, Isabel Vieitez, René Nevárez, Pablo López, Nicole A. Haberland, Cristina MacGregor, and Thoai Ngô)

Session 202—COVID-19 and Widening Inequalities