Research shows that self-managed medication abortion accessed through online telehealth is medically safe and effective, but prospective patients face a complex web of barriers.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Experiencing racism damages a person’s health by triggering the release of stress hormones and a chain of biological events that cause premature aging, which in turn increase the risk of chronic disease.
Attempts at immigration reform should address issues that have been with us, in various guises, for at least a century.
PRB produced a global interactive database and a series of regional policy reports and data sheets that highlight the importance of taking action now to address noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors among youth.
As Earth's population reaches the eight-billion milestone, we put it into context.
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
Explore PRB and PACE’s work at the intersection of digital health technologies and family planning programming.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
(2017) The videos aim to expand understanding of key data issues in FGM/C research, including the importance of looking beyond national prevalence to identify hotspots or areas within a country where FGM/C is widely practiced, analyzing change over time by comparing older and younger cohorts rather than changes in overall prevalence, and understanding the various questions and data gaps that are raised by newly available data in Indonesia.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
(2020) The coronavirus pandemic—coupled with ongoing demographic trends—is making family life even more complicated for Americans. Millions of families are at increased risk of falling into poverty due to pandemic-related job losses, and social distancing protocols are separating some children from their parents who live in a different household.