Régine Sitruk Ware, distinguished scientist at the Population Council, is the recipient of the 2022 Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor is given to individuals or teams who have dedicated their careers to advancing the science of abortion and contraception and have supported others in achieving their own success.
Adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries are migrating from rural to urban areas in ever greater numbers. This increase in migration has given rise to a “migration industry” that includes brokers and informal labor intermediaries and recruiters who facilitate migration or help new arrivals with employment.
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Nguyen To Nhu was a young medical officer in Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, when she was accepted to the University of California, Los Angeles’s (UCLA) Master’s degree program in Public Health.
Dr. Satvika Chalasani first learned about the Population Council when she was a PhD candidate at the Pennsylvania State University, working with Prof. John Casterline—then a professor of Sociology and Demography and a former Senior Associate at the Population Council.
It is estimated that there are 17.2 million child domestic workers globally, most of whom are girls. Research related to this marginalized group is limited, with most at a small scale or subsumed in other topics, such as domestic workers generally.
The dearth of evidence limits awareness about girls in such circumstances and inhibits the design and implementation of context-appropriate policy and program responses.
According to the United Nations, the world’s population reached 8 billion people on 15 November 2022. What are the implications of adding one billion people into the world in just twelve years?
Dr. Moira O'Bryan became “hooked on science” during her Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, which supported young reproductive scientists to work on contraceptive development at the Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research (CBR) at Rockefeller University in New York. After obtaining her PhD in immunology and reproductive biology in 1994, she spent three years at CBR studying endocrinology of male fertility.
The United Nations has declared that on November 15, 2022, the world’s population will reach a historic milestone: the birth of the eighth billionth person.
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Dr. Sohail Agha’s academic pursuits led him to a doctoral program in Population Dynamics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. During this time, he studied with public health pioneer Prof. Henry Mosely, a former Population Council Associate, who developed the framework for child survival programs in Indonesia and Kenya.
IMPACTS develops and deploys solutions to understand who and where is most affected by the climate crisis to inform targeted and equitable responses for vulnerable populations and places.
