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NY Times Obituary: Malcolm Potts, Irreverent Evangelist for Contraception, Dies at 90

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With deep sadness we announce the death of Professor Malcolm Potts, our dear colleague, mentor, and the visionary founder of the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability. He passed away on April 25, 2025, at the age of 90. Malcolm's impact reverberates through the...Read more about In Loving Memory of Professor Malcolm Potts

Using community-based participatory research, Bhavya Joshi collaborates with refugee women to address maternal health crises, gender-based violence, and family planning. Her work highlights urgent healthcare gaps and empowers communities to shape solutions, aiming to reach marginalized...Read more about Bhavya Joshi, a UC Berkeley Public Health doctoral student, one of the Bixby Center's fellows of reproductive health was in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp supporting women's health

Dr. Julia Walsh, Senior Research Scientist at the Bixby Center, has co-founded the UC Berkeley Climate and Society Center (CSC). The CSC unites faculty, students, and...Read more about Senior Research Scientist Dr. Julia Walsh was interviewed by NBC

Victoria Lee, Drexler Anthony T. Madamba, Kendy Mendoza, and Hazel Warner, undergraduate students from Ndola Prata's PH181 course, Poverty and Population, have been in touch with Congressional Representatives in Washington DC, Journalist Alisha Haridasani Gupta (New York Times) and...Read more about Ndola Prata's undergraduate student exceptional communications!

The Chair of the Bixby Center Professor Ndola Prata, MD, MSc and her DrPh candidate Blake Erhardt-Ohren presented research from their collaborative projects at the African Population Conference in Lilongwe, Malawi....Read more about Ndola Prata and Blake Erhardt-Ohren presented research in Malawi

DrPH candidate Bhavya Joshi has been working on her dissertation with her advisor, Bixby Center Chair and Professor Ndola Prata, MD, MSc. Bhavya teamed up with Professor Prata on the Malawi trip to present research at the at ...Read more about Bhavya Joshi presented research in Malawi

The Bixby Center Chair and Professor Ndola Prata MD, MSc presented research on women's empowerment and fertility decline in Angola at the African Population...Read more about Ndola Prata MD, MSc presented research in Malawi

Amol De Gabriel from the community-led media initiative Kakuma Cinema interviewed Bhavya Joshi, one of the Bixby Center's fellows on February 22, 2024 in Kakuma, Kenya. The conversation touched upon various topics, beginning with Bhavya’s background, and the purpose of her visit to Kakuma...Read more about Bixby Center's Fellow Bhavya Joshi was interviewed by Kakuma Cinema in Kenya

Telemedicine provides a unique opportunity to improve abortion care in Rwanda by allowing for service provision at primary care level. Efficacy of medication abortion is well established in healthcare,yet research in Rwanda is still needed to determine the effectiveness and safety of...Read more about INNOVATION THROUGH TELEMEDICINE TO IMPROVE MEDICATION ABORTION ACCESS IN MUSANZE DISTRICT, RWANDA RESEARCH BRIEF – FEBRUARY 2024

Close to 300,000 women and more than 1 million newborns die each year from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, mostly in Africa and Asia, where health facilities often lack reliable electricity. Midwives and doctors struggle by candlelight, kerosene lantern, and cell phone...Read more about Panel Discussion; We Care Solar and the Journey to Light Every Birth

Dear Bixby Center Affiliates and Friends:

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has made clear the rapidly narrowing opportunity to enable climate resilient development. To create a different future, we must work differently, integrating across sectors,...Read more about Gender Equity and Climate Change Panel Discussion, April 24, 2023

Professor Ndola Prata will be teaching this new course in the fall 2023 semester. This 2-unit graduate course is open to all students of all disciplines. With special permission, undergraduate students are welcome to enroll as well!

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The poster highlights our work using telemedicine to increase access to 1st trimester abortion in Rwanda.

Please click here for the poster.Read more about Karen Weidert will present a top poster at the Society of Family Planning annual meeting on December 3rd

Bixby Center's summer internship recipients 2022

Renee Clarke's research presentation on "Perceptions of empowerment of birthing people in the San Francisco Bay Area: survey methods"

Bhavya Joshi's research...Read more about Bixby Center Research Video Presentations by Bhavya Joshi and Renee Clarke

Dr. Julia Walsh's opinion has been published in the Mercury News. She explains why she supports abortion choice.

Dr. Walsh is the former Chair of Bixby Center. She was also a health professor in the School of Public Health of UC Berkeley. Currently she is a senior research...Read more about Why a Bay Area Catholic doctor supports abortion choice