Abriendo Oportunidades (“Opening Opportunities”)
Indigenous girls across Latin America are faced with discrimination based on the intersection of gender, economics, and ethnicity. Many live in isolated rural [...]
NISITU: Engaging Men and Boys in Girl-Centered Programming
Evidence from several studies, including in Kenya, supports the idea that empowerment and asset-building interventions targeting multiple levels of the socio-ecological environment can [...]
Michael Mbizvo
Michael Mbizvo is senior associate and senior country advisor for the Population Council’s office in Zambia. Mbizvo provides strategic direction and technical oversight [...]
Miriam Temin
Miriam Temin leads the Council’s work to promote evidence-informed girl-centered programming using evidence synthesis, technical assistance, and capacity-strengthening. She directs the Council's project [...]
Rethinking Sexuality Education
Adolescents in the United States and around the world face significant reproductive health challenges, including high rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted [...]
Sajeda Amin
Sajeda Amin leads the Population Council’s work on livelihoods for adolescent girls. She is a senior sociologist and demographer with decades of experience [...]
Introducing the GIRL Center External Research Collaborators
Collaborators will develop research projects, co-author papers, participate in research agenda-setting, and mentor young researchers focused on adolescents. In addition, as the first [...]
United States
In the US, the Population Council has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. The Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research (CBR)—located on [...]
Gender Equality and Equity
Gender is a multidimensional social construct of norms, behaviors, and roles that vary between societies and over time. Gender links gender identity, gender expression, [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Karen Austrian Appointed as Director of the Population Council’s Girl Innovation, Research, and Learning (GIRL) Center
The Population Council is thrilled to announce the appointment of our colleague Dr. Karen Austrian as the director of the Council’s Girl Innovation, Research, and Learning (GIRL) Center—a [...]
India: Perspectives on Inequalities Magnified by COVID-19
This past year, the coronavirus pandemic has impacted every country, every community, and every person in this world – but not equally nor [...]