Deborah Mesce
Former Program Director, International Media Training
Featured News & Insights
Journalists’ Reporting on Reproductive Health Helps Make It a Policymaking Priority
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.
A PRB Media Landscape Review: Are the News Media Giving Policymakers the Information They Need?
Where do developing country policymakers get the information on which they base their public policy decisions?
Journalists Learn Where Reproduction Begins (It’s Not Where You Think)
After I introduced Dr. Eve Nakabembe as the first speaker at PRB’s Women’s Edition seminar in Kampala, Uganda, the young obstetrician/gynocologist first asked the journalists where they thought the process of reproduction begins.
Journalists Weather Currency Storm
The day after the Nov. 8 U.
Featured Resources
Population Growth Concentrated Among the Poorest Communities
As sub-Saharan African countries strive to grow their economies, it is critical that they consider their age structures—or more particularly, the age structures of their richest and poorest populations, which are determined largely by fertility rates.
Can Drones Help Avert Contraceptive Stockouts? Maybe…
Drones might seem to be a natural solution to maintaining a more even contraceptive supply in hard-to-reach areas, but family planning supplies aren’t yet the ideal cargo.
Using Films to Start Conversations for Change
Using Films to Start Conversations for Change Dressed in their colorful native garb, women from India, South Sudan, and Malawi gathered in a classroom at the Barefoot College in the village of Tilonia in northwestern India.
