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Senior Burkina Faso Health Official Affirms Strong Commitment to Universal Health Coverage

November 15, 2018

Family Planning Key to Primary Care, Prevention-Based Approach

(KIGALI, RWANDA) Burkina Faso’s Minister of Health, Nicolas Meda, affirmed Burkina Faso’s strong financial and political commitment to improving public health through universal access to comprehensive health coverage, citing the key role of family planning and the importance of donors and partners in helping secure the additional resources needed to meet their ambitious goals.

Senior Burkina Faso Officials Outline Ambitious Health Goals at First Reference Group Meeting

October 23, 2018

Senior officials from Burkina Faso outlined their strong political and financial commitment to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and called on members of the new Burkina Faso Reference Group to help them secure additional resources to support this ambitious effort.

PRB Welcomes Isabella Aboderin of APHRC, Jennifer Madans of CDC to the Board

August 23, 2018

By asoares

Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is pleased to announce the addition of two members to its Board of Trustees: Isabella Aboderin, senior research scientist at the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) in Nairobi, Kenya; and Jennifer Madans, associate director for science at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Know Your Audience: Ensure Your Research Influences the Right People

August 20, 2018

As an emerging researcher and demographer, I spent the first several years of my Ph.D.

PRB in Consortium Selected by USAID to Establish Global Researcher Network

August 9, 2018

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USAID announced that the 11-member consortium, led by the NORC research institute at the University of Chicago, will establish and manage a Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC) under a four-year award worth up to $24 million.

Your Research Matters: Make It Accessible to Policymakers

July 2, 2018

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U.S. Poverty Thresholds and Poverty Guidelines: What’s the Difference?

March 25, 2018

There are two different U.S. poverty measures, both often referred to as “poverty level”—one based on poverty thresholds and one based on poverty guidelines.

Journalists’ Reporting on Reproductive Health Helps Make It a Policymaking Priority

March 21, 2018

In Senegal, journalists’ reporting on reproductive health issues has drawn policymakers’ attention and spurred action, contributing to a doubling of the country’s modern contraceptive use in less than a decade.

PRB Report Launch: Curbing the Noncommunicable Disease Epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa

January 25, 2018

By asoares

“If we can implement the right combination of effective and sustainable interventions to nurture healthy behaviors among youth today, then we can make progress toward curbing the NCD epidemic [in the MENA region] in one generation,” said Toshiko Kaneda, a senior research associate at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), to an engaged crowd of around 70 people gathered at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the launch of PRB’s new report and data sheet on preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through curbing the risk factors among youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

PRB Policy Fellow Aasha Jackson Receives Marshall Scholarship

December 8, 2017

Aasha Jackson, a PRB International Programs Policy Fellow, has been awarded a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine starting in 2018.

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