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Beyond Myths: Addressing Real Concerns About Contraception and Future Fertility

A commentary in Studies in Family Planning explores women’s contraceptive concerns and encourages further nuance in contraceptive counseling to honor women’s lived experience
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We Are Our Memory: A Flexible Framework for Quantifying the Demographic Imprints of the Past

New work provides the demographic tools for estimating the memory of the past in populations of the present and future
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Honoring Christina Wang, MD, PhD

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Differential Acceptance of New Family Behaviors Across Europe

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Girls at the Center: How 30+ Years of Research is Powering Change for Girls

Co-Presidents Pat Vaughan and Jim Sailer reflect on the Council’s three decades of research to improve adolescent girls' lives and how designing interventions to reach girls earlier provides them with the future they deserve.
What Girls Deliver Brings to Women Deliver: A Q&A with GIRL Center Director Karen Austrian
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What Girls Deliver Brings to Women Deliver: A Q&A with GIRL Center Director Karen Austrian

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The Impact of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme’s Coverage Policy on Modern Contraceptive Use

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Infertility and Unrealized Ideal Family Size

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Beyond Lowest-Low Fertility: Why a Quarter-Century-Old Label No Longer Captures Today’s Demographic Reality

New research challenges the usefulness of "lowest-low fertility" as countries with similar birth rates face vastly different demographic futures.
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Self-Assessed Pregnancy Acceptability: A Novel Framework and Measure to Move Beyond Unintended Pregnancy

Embedding “downstream” stakeholder engagement within research uptake: Learnings from the Council's Innovation Initiative
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Embedding “downstream” stakeholder engagement within research uptake: Learnings from the Council’s Innovation Initiative

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Hiding in plain sight: Trafficking persons with disabilities for begging in Ethiopia

Excerpt from first-ever study on forced begging of persons with disabilities.