Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy (EEDA) was a four-and-a-half year project (2017-2021) implemented by PRB and the International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP) and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
(2010) Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Socioeconomic inequality and racism-related stress are at the root of Black-white health disparities, requiring policies and interventions targeting both economic inequality and exposure to high levels of stress.
Investments in young people are crucial to achieving a demographic dividend. The demographic dividend provides a framework for promoting investments in youth as fertility declines and population age structure changes. Sustained investments in voluntary family planning, health, education, and job growth can help to guide a country towards a demographic dividend.
Each year about 1 million Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday. Malnutrition contributes to nearly half of these deaths. The multimedia presentation, Malnutrition: Nigeria’s Silent Crisis, presents the reasons why proper nutrition for women and children is so important, especially in the first 1,000 day period—from the start of a woman’s pregnancy until her child’s second birthday
Project: Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy to Expand Access to Safe Abortion (SAFE ENGAGE)
Out of the Shadows: Saving Women’s Lives From Unsafe Abortion in Lagos State is an ENGAGE multimedia production that outlines progress toward safe abortion in Lagos state, barriers to ensuring access to safe abortion, and steps that policymakers and decisionmakers can take to improve access to safe abortion within the full extent of the law.
Project: KIDS COUNT Technical Assistance and Training
In this video tutorial series, PRB introduces data users to the American Community Survey and provides key information about how to access and use ACS data.
Jason Bremner, associate vice president of International Programs, and program director, Population, Health, and Environment at the Population Reference Bureau, was interviewed on MSNBC's Greenhouse program by host Tony Dokoupil.
