We are excited to announce that our special theme issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B The Impact of Population Growth on Tomorrow’s World, is now published.
The Bixby Center, working with Venture Strategies and local partners reach women who will deliver at home and study the scaling up misoprostol use in rural areas of Bangladesh.
The Bixby Center’s infographic “Sex Matters,” which explores contaception and family planning in different parts of the world, has been published in Foreign Policy Magazine. The piece argues that “Low birthrates aren’t a consequence of national wealth; rather, they’re needed to create it.”
In 2006, the Bixby Center played key roles in hearings organized by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health in the UK Parliament on the impact of population growth on the Millennium Development Goals.
Dr. Ndola Prata and Dr. Malcolm Potts were among the 53 experts and international agencies submitting written evidence [...]
Researchers from the Bixby Center at UC Berkeley call for bold new initiatives to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters.
The United Nations established the eight millennium goals in 2000 to help alleviate poverty throughout the world. Can these goals be met? What is the missing link? Be apart of a class that will explore how to eradicate poverty, hunger, and infant/child/maternal mortality knowing that population growth WILL effect the outcome.
On May 8, 2009 The Bixby Center co-sponsored cross-disciplinary symposium on Global Change and Global Health with Berkeley Alliance for Global Health and the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies. The symposium focused on urban health challenges at the intersection of climate change, demographic shifts and economic globalization.
Both within and beyond UC Berkeley, there is [...]
Population growth will be a major force shaping the next half century with 99% of this growth happening in developing world. To address these issues, Berkeley’s Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability hosted, in collaboration with the Bixby centers at UCLA and UCSF, an international forum titled The World in 2050: A Scientific Investigation of the Impact of Global Population Changes on a Divided Planet.
Thanks to a $15 million gift from the Fred H. Bixby Foundation, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health will enrich and expand its current Bixby Program in Population, Family Planning & Maternal Health to become the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability.
The Bixby Center applauds Obama’s recent reversal of the Mexico City policy and his statement in support of family planning worldwide
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