Effective Climate Adaptation
The climate crisis is accelerating, posing existential threats to people and places around the world. Any successful response must combine mitigation, or reducing [...]
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE): What do we know, and where do we go from here?
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) enables young people to think broadly about the physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects of sexuality and enhances development of [...]
The Roots of Gender Inequality Grow Deeper Than Technology Can Reach
Every two minutes, a woman dies from a maternity-related cause. That number is down significantly from two decades ago, but it’s still three [...]
Women Deliver 2023 Conference
Population Council experts and our partners will attend Women Deliver (WD2023) in Kigali, Rwanda from 17 to 20 July 2023 to share how we [...]
Population Council Fellow: Momoe Makino
A year before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Dr. Momoe Makino took a sabbatical from her position as a Research Fellow at the Institute [...]
The Indigenous Justice Circle: The Next Step on the Path to Restore Indigenous Girl Societies
October 5, 2022—The Population Council is pleased to announce that the Indigenous Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment Network (IMAGEN), which has been incubated at the Council [...]
Addressing Urban Disparities in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
The world is rapidly urbanizing with over 60 percent of the global population estimated to live in urban areas by 2050. Urban environments [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]