Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Social Support, Networks, and Happiness
As Americans live longer, researchers have begun to investigate how people can move into old age not just healthier, but also happier.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
As Americans live longer, researchers have begun to investigate how people can move into old age not just healthier, but also happier.
“Girls, women, families, society, and the economy all pay a price for the gaps in knowledge about women’s health,” a new report says.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
A new Youth Leaders module in the Policy Communication Toolkit provides youth-led and youth-serving advocacy and accountability organizations a curriculum that meaningfully engages youth to develop their policy communication knowledge and skills.
(2013) Feb. 6, 2013, marks a decade since the first International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation was commemorated. An estimated 100 million to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and more than 3 million girls are at risk for cutting each year on the African continent alone.
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.
The first in a series of three blogs on our new "Losing More Ground" report, published November 30.
(2001) The people of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long played an integral, if sometimes volatile, role in the history of human civilization. MENA is one of the cradles of civilization and of urban culture. Three of the world's major religions originated in the region — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Universities existed in MENA long before they did in Europe.