Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
As they age, Black adults experience more rapid decline in the body’s ability to recover from stress or damage, with social and economic factors contributing to this decline.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
This segment from the ENGAGE presentation “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend” explains the changes necessary for countries to achieve a demographic dividend, and serves as a platform for leaders to discuss investments in youth, family planning, education, and the economy.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Combined oral contraception is a daily pill that contains low doses of estrogen and progestin to prevent pregnancy. The method is a short-term reversible contraceptive option. Effectiveness depends on user’s adherence.
Imali Ngusale, alumna of PRB's Youth Multimedia Fellowship, discusses how she is using her training to educate young people.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Older Black adults are less likely than their white peers to have private insurance and more likely to rely on Medicaid or Medicare as their only health insurance.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Nearly 1 in 4 young married women in Tanzania, ages 15 to 19, have a desire to use contraception, but are not currently using any method.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
(2018) Over the last 50 years, family planning (FP) has created opportunities for women and girls to increase schooling, labor force participation, occupational choice, and wages, so they can build better lives for themselves and their families.
The current growth of the population ages 65 and older is unprecedented in U.S. history and has important implications for policymakers.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
In Ghana and Uganda, young people below the the age of 15 dominate the population age structure. Both countries can shift this high child dependency by empowering women to achieve their reproductive goals.