Advancing Health Equity Through Contraception
We hear it in nearly every sexual and reproductive health conversation today—from HIV prevention to family planning to STI treatment, people want and deserve [...]
COVID-19 Hospitalizations in the United States: Where Are the Data on Race?
The United States has shifted its focus on tracking COVID-19 cases to the use of hospitalizations as a primary metric in assessing “community-level risk.” [...]
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
This year’s 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is dedicated to “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all [...]
A Hasty Census Exercise
Pakistan’s Council of Common Interests approved work on the seventh population and housing census. A pilot of the digital process will be conducted in May, [...]
IWD 2022: Break the Bias
March 8th marks International Women’s Day, a global event that celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women around the world. This year, [...]
A Call to Protect Gender-Minority Children and Adolescents
Globally, sexual and gender minority (SGM) children and adolescents suffer disproportionately from gender discrimination inflicted by entrenched social inequalities. They are at higher risk [...]
To Slow The Spread Of COVID-19, We Need To Bring Back The Swiss Cheese Model Of Pandemic Response
In Health Affairs Forefront, the Council's Thoai Ngo calls for biomedical and social and behavioral know-how, captured in the Swiss Cheese Model, to suppress transmission [...]
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Showing Us About the Global Learning Crisis
In the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women Around the World blog, Council researchers Nicole Haberland and Timothy Abuya discuss the impact of COVID-19 on progress in education worldwide. The authors [...]