Research Foci

• Increasing access to family planning by highlighting and confronting barriers to the use of contraception and safe abortion.
• Improving access to needed commodities by facilitating the distribution of low cost contraceptives and misoprostol (primarily to treat postpartum hemorrhage).
• Documenting the need for cost-effectiveness through economic analyses and developing innovative ways of using donor money, such as output-based assistance.
• Examining creative technologies and practices to improve sexual health on a large scale, regardless of controversy.
• Documenting the synergy that family planning offers for both individual and community welfare.
• Exploring the relationship between rapid population growth and political instability and conflict.