COVID Impact, Census Issues, and Reproductive Health Among Highlights of 2023 Population Association of America Conference
PRB staff offer summaries of new research and insightful sessions from the annual demography meeting.
PRB staff offer summaries of new research and insightful sessions from the annual demography meeting.
(2004) During the last two decades, agricultural expansion, logging, development, and other human activities caused the deforestation of more than 120,000 square kilometers each year.
Through the Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC), PRB helps researchers communicate their work more effectively to target audiences with workshops, toolkits, webinars, and product development.
(2000) Gregory Goodwin "Goody" Pincus was Dr. Pincus because of his Harvard Ph.D. in biology, not because of a medical degree. Yet his work may have been the most important medical advance of the century for improving women's health and status. If any one person merits recognition as the father of the birth control pill, it was Goody Pincus.
HIV/AIDS emerged in the late 20th century. Believed to have originated in Africa, the disease has spread worldwide. Occurrence of HIV/AIDS and primary means of diffusion vary among regions. Because of the social and economic impacts of this disease, students should have a good understanding of the patterns and processes that define the spread of the disease.
(2015) Summary: Although the reported use of modern contraceptives has remained stable in Zimbabwe, fertility increased from an average of 3.8 to 4.1 children per woman between 2006 and 2011.
(2011) Today, Americans are more likely to marry and to divorce than in almost any other Western nation. How has this pattern changed over the last 10 years?
Without coordination from researchers and advocates, “we would have not had 38 other organizations who support reproductive rights in Maryland and across the country come up to support us and provide testimony in that bill," said Lesley Lopez (D-Maryland).