This training series helps participants identify the policy implications of research, understand how research can influence the policy process, and communicate research findings in simple and compelling formats to policy audiences and the news media. Workshops are held in Costa Rica, Thailand, and Uganda.
The PHE program collaborates closely with partners around the world to help field practitioners develop the ability to mobilize and train others, use information for policy change, and design and manage PHE projects.
This program selects a group of PhD students each year to come to PRB to learn skills and approaches for communicating research findings to policy and other nonspecialist audiences. They also examine the process by which research findings influence policy development.
The Population Reference Bureau sponsors 12-month full-time fellowships through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Hewlett/PRB Dissertation Fellowships
Since 2006, the Population Reference Bureau and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation have offered financial support to outstanding U.S. and Canadian graduate students in economics, demography, sociology, and related fields. For more information: www.poppov.org.
Since 2001 the Compton Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) have collaborated to increase the capacity of outstanding graduate students from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to improve and/or influence policy for the effectiveness of population, family planning, and reproductive health programs in the developing world.