The Population Council works with health authorities and policymakers to generate and share data in real-time and provide evidence to mitigate the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research serves communities most vulnerable due to structural barriers, including economic inequality, racism, harmful gender norms, and numerous other intertwining factors.
The COVID-19 research and analyses are locally led, draw on expertise from across the globe, utilize existing data and study cohorts, and build on decades-long relationships with community leaders, government officials, and partners.
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- Brief and Data: Covid-19 knowledge, attitudes, practices & needs
- Brief: Trends in maternal health and family planning service uptake during COVID-19
- Commentary: Bangladeshi women play crucial role in fight against COVID-19
- Webinar: COVID-19 evidence and impact from Bangladesh, Guatemala, India, and Kenya
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- Brief and Data: COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and practices
- Commentary: Lejos de la desescalada. Elementos para otra estrategia
- E-learning program for girl mentors: Mentoral Digitale 2020 facilitated access to information, stimulate participation, and empower young Indigenous mentors to support young girls in rural communities in Guatemala during the COVID-19 pandemic
In India, the Population Council partners with the government, and nongovernmental and multilateral organizations to understand the immediate and long-term effects of COVID-19 and mitigation measures on social, health, economic, and education outcomes of marginalized populations, including women, children and adolescents.
Council researchers were the first to develop a composite measure of community-level vulnerability to COVID-19 in India. This vulnerability index helps the government in its efforts to effectively respond to the evolving pandemic. Council researchers also advise the Lancet COVID-19 Commission on priorities to suppress the second wave of COVID-19 in India.
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- Task force: The Lancet COVID-19 Commission
- Research: Population Council Institute analyzed key findings from a rapid, longitudinal study on women and children in Bihar and evaluated adoption of preventive practices; awareness and use of social protection; impacts on nutrition; family planning; livelihood, employment, and financial resources; effects on migrant households; and potential contributions of Self-Help Groups
- Article: A vulnerability index for the management of and response to the COVID-19 epidemic in India: an ecological study
- Brief: Women’s groups and COVID-19: Challenges, engagement, and opportunities published by the Evidence Consortium on Women’s Groups (ECWG) presents the potential implications of the pandemic and related lockdowns for women’s groups in India, Nigeria, and Uganda. This work is co-led by the American Institutes for Research and the Population Council
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- Article: Gendered economic, social and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation policies in Kenya: evidence from a prospective cohort survey in Nairobi informal settlements
- Report: Promises to Keep: Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescents in Kenya
- Webinar: The Impact of COVID-19 on Urban Informal Settlements: Lessons from Kenya
- Brief: Social, health, education and economic effects of COVID-19 on adolescent girls in Kenya: Responses from data collection in five Nairobi informal settlements (Kibera, Huruma, Kariobangi, Dandora, and Mathare), June 2020—Nairobi
- Commentary: We wanted to know how coronavirus affects Nairobi’s slum residents. What we found
- Article: Mobility Patterns During COVID-19 Travel Restrictions in Nairobi Urban Informal Settlements: Who Is Leaving Home and Why
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In Pakistan, the Population Council partners with the government and international development partners to generate evidence on the effects of COVID-19 on the health system and its impact on marginalized populations, including poor women.
Research in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab helped illuminate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of critical maternal health and family planning services, and documented the effects of disrupted services at the beginning of the pandemic for both poor women as well as health service providers.
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- Report: Reproductive health care in the time of COVID-19: Perspectives of poor women and service providers from Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab
- Brief: Facing COVID-19: Knowledge, attitudes, practices, and challenges of healthcare providers
- Commentary: Population and the pandemic
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- Code: Predicting COVID-19 cases at the country-level in the US
- Article: Spatiotemporal prediction of COVID-19 cases using inter- and intra-county proxies of human interactions
- Data: Tracking COVID-19 data reporting & analysis in the United States
- Research: Supporting Native American Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Commentary: Tackling the U.S. Coronavirus Data Catastrophe
- Commentary: We Need a Pro-Poor and Pro-Black Response to COVID-19
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