Get to Know PRB CEO Jennifer D. Sciubba
An internationally recognized expert in political demography, Jennifer has worked throughout her career to educate the broader public about the importance of population trends.
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Rural America Is Aging—Without Enough Care Workers
Faced with a deficit of nursing assistants and home health aides, rural areas lack the workforce they need for people to age in place, new research finds.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
High Obesity Rates Plus Severe Coronavirus Cases Could Strain Rural U.S. Hospitals
As coronavirus cases rise in less densely populated states in the Midwest and West, the disease, combined with high levels of obesity in rural America, could pose major challenges for health care systems, suggests Mark Lee at the University of Minnesota.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Disparities Related to Education, Race, and Gender Compound Health Disadvantages at Older Ages
Black adults who have not finished high school are at much greater risk of dementia than other groups.
Subsidized Contraceptives Benefit Disadvantaged Women
(2013) The 2012 London Summit on Family Planning brought renewed attention to the cause of providing women with options for managing their fertility—enabling them to have the number of children they want when they want them and spaced at healthy intervals. In that conference, countries and donor agencies expressed their commitment to increase funding for family planning programs to ensure that reliable contraceptive supplies are available and affordable to all women who express a desire to postpone or avoid childbearing.
PRB Discuss Online: Integrating Family Planning and HIV Programs
(2010) There is an urgent need for stronger links between family planning/reproductive health and HIV policies, programs, and services.
PRB in the News: Diana Elliott Discusses the Labor Shortage With NPR
“The employers who think more creatively about policies are the ones who are going to come out ahead in the next couple of decades,” Elliott said.