Courtney completed a qualitative research investigation into women’s perceptions, enabling factors, and barriers to access and use of non-permanent family planning methods, in collaboration with World Health Partners (WHP), an Indian non-governmental organization that provides health services to rural communities in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India.

Bernadine Han, MS/MD Candidate

STD/HIV prevention poster in Pune, Maharashtra, India. The caption can be loosely translated as, ‘whether one or many (partners), find a condom!’ The cartooned condom himself asks, ‘what do you think?’

This project explores how shifts in India’s family planning and family planning policy have been filtered down to local communities [...]

Population Services International (PSI) enlisted Bixby Intern Julie Earne’s help to study the potential of developing social franchising in India to communicate the importance of birth spacing through the use of temporary methods of birth control.