Early Childbearing and Child Marriage: An Update
Child marriage and early childbearing—marriages and births to girls below age 18—are serious threats to girls’ wellbeing everywhere. The mere existence of child [...]
Fellowships
For 70 years, Population Council fellowship programs have advanced the careers of thousands of public health, social science, and biomedical researchers around the [...]
Improving Acceptability, Use, and Continuation of Intrauterine Devices (IUDs) in Bangladesh
The Council is conducting longitudinal research to improve the experiences of IUD users in the Keraniganj, Savar, and Nawabganj Upazila regions of Dhaka [...]
Research and Analysis for Scientific Transformation and Advancement (RASTA)
The Council is leading multiple institutions in the RASTA initiative, which uses a collaborative research platform to track India’s progress toward achieving the [...]
A Tribute to Neil Zimmerman
The Population Council expresses its sorrow at the passing of Neil Zimmerman, who retired in 2017 following more than four decades of service [...]
Violence Outcomes in COVID-19 Era Study (VoCes-19)
VoCes-19 is a web-based open cohort study that aims to understand the short- and mid-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives [...]
FP2030 North, West, and Central Africa Hub
According to the UN’s 2019 estimates, Africa’s population scenario as a function of fertility, migration, and mortality rates is projected to be over [...]
Direct-to-Consumer Fertility Awareness and Reproductive Health Information
The Game of Choice, Not Chance (GOC) is a Direct to Consumer (DTC) educational mobile game. The GOC provides young women with a [...]
Response to Devastating Flooding in Pakistan
Devastating flooding in Pakistan has affected more than one-third of the country and displaced 32 million people. The unprecedented monsoon season began in July [...]
Integrated Health and Population Dashboard
Under the component of bolstering accountability on family planning policy and implementation of Council of Common Interests (CCI) decisions through the Gates-funded grant [...]
Berhane Hewan Ethiopia
Berhane Hewan (Light for Eve, in Amharic) was a community-based intervention designed to both prevent child marriage and support girls who were already [...]
Toyin O. Akomolafe
Toyin O. Akomolafe designs, conducts, manages data for, analyzes, reports, and disseminates multi-site/country research studies across all IntegratE project divisions. She identifies research [...]