(2010) The Malthus Lectureship, a partnership between the Population Reference Bureau and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), promotes the study of the connections among nutrition, food, agriculture, and population and invites an outstanding scholar or policymaker to give a presentation each year. The first Annual Malthus Lecture took place on March 3, 2010, in Washington, D.C.
(2010) Disability in older Americans affects the entire population of the United States because of its impact on the level of health care spending, especially spending on long-term care.
Kenya is experiencing a growing epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). A window of opportunity exists to address the four key NCD risk behaviors ( tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity) in Kenya's large and growing youth population.
(2011) "Generations on the Rise in Pakistan" is an ENGAGE multimedia presentation that examines the important link between high fertility and the health of women and children, highlighting improvements in family planning use over time as well as the gaps in implementation.
(2008) On Dec. 10, Barry M. Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the UNC-CH's Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity, visited PRB to discuss rising obesity worldwide and his new book, The World is Fat, published by Avery in December 2008.
(2020) Census operations are changing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Census Bureau announced on June 18, 2020, that it is reaching out to colleges and universities with significant off-campus student populations to help ensure they are counted in the right place in the 2020 Census.