The Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability

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Community health worker at training to provide injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia.

By training front line health workers, like community health workers, the Bixby Center reaches women who cannot easily access clinics.

Musanze District Youth Center opens in Rwanda

The center empowers young people to make informed reproductive health decisions. Services include education and training in IT, sexuality, reproductive health, employment, and a full clinic.

Stay tuned for our upcoming internship opportunities!

During the summer, one of Bixby’s interns, Iris Lin, gives sexual health education seminar at a high school while she was interning with a NGO called Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL) in Kampala, Uganda.

The Bixby Center will have five presentations at ICFP.

Dr. Ndola presenting findings on a study on maternal mortality in Uganda as evidence to a landmark lawsuit against the Ugandan government.

The Uganda-based Center for Health, Human Rights and Development and the families of
women who suffered preventable deaths in childbirth have sued the Ugandan government in a
landmark case, demanding that the state provide minimum health guarantees to expectant
mothers.

Community health worker at training to provide injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia.
By training front line health workers, like community health workers, the Bixby Center reaches women who cannot easily access clinics.

The Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability is dedicated to helping achieve slower population growth within a human right framework by addressing the unmet need for family planning. The Center seeks to improve the health outcomes of world's poorest and most vulnerable women and their families. Learn more >

Core Research Projects

We conduct research in regions with persistently high birth rates and constrained access to contraceptive methods. We work to produce reliable information for population policy including barriers to fertility regulation, ease of access to contraception, safe motherhood, and the management and financing of family planning in resource scarce regions.

Special Programs & Initiatives

In addition to core research, Bixby has special programs and initiatives that address complex multifactorial population issues and development challenges. These special programs include The OASIS Initiative in the Sahel region in Africa, Global Reproductive Health, and Women's Empowerment.

News

Summer 2019 Funding Opportunity (new deadline: 3/15)

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New Bixby Publication in Dovepress about abortion history and modern contraception in Luanda, Angola

Women in sub-Saharan Africa often use abortion as a method of limiting their fertility and spacing births. However, it is not well understood whether having an abortion influences contraceptive behavior. The goal of this study was to examine associations between abortion history and use of a modern contraceptive method among women in Luanda, Angola. To […]

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Bixby has new publication in GHSP Journal about engaging men in FP

Men in the study generally supported couples’ use of contraception, especially citing socioeconomic reasons. Some had reservations stemming from perceptions that family planning could facilitate infidelity and promiscuity. They also thought family planning decisions should be made jointly. All men expressed interest in learning more about family planning, preferring dissemination from community health workers, trusted […]

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New Bixby publication in SSM-Population Health is available online

The open access version of Bixby’s most recent publication in Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, Do Perceived Contraception Attitudes Influence Abortion Stigma? Evidence from Luanda, Angola, is now available online.

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Dr. Holcombe Has Published an Article on Advocacy by Ethiopia’s Obstetrician-Gynecologist Society in the Journal Health Policy and Planning

The Bixby Center’s Associate Fellow Sarah Jane Holcombe has just published an article in the journal Health Policy and Planning on advocacy by Ethiopia’s obstetrician-gynecologist society in support of the country’s 2005 reform of its law on abortion. Medical society engagement in contentious policy reform: the Ethiopian Society for Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ESOG) and Ethiopia’s […]

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Bixby Center is now accepting applications to fund summer internships or doctoral research

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Malcolms Potts has commentary in SF Chronicle: Cultural debate over harassment is a step in human evolution

Written by Malcolm Potts on San Francisco Chronicle | November 29, 2017 Hogamous, higamous Man is polygamous Higamous, hogamous, Woman is monogamous A 20th-century tale recounted the story of a woman who awoke one night believing she had discovered the meaning of life. When she looked at what she had scribbled the next morning, it was […]

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UC Berkeley Global Health is Offering Summer Reporting Internship 2018

The UC Berkeley Center for Global Public Health and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism are excited to offer a joint internship for a summer global health reporting project in 2018. A $4,000 stipend will be awarded to a UC Berkeley graduate student to cover expenses involved in producing a work of journalism that […]

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Events

The UC and CSU Access to Reproductive Health Services Study

April 4 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Bixby Biweekly Meetings: Presentation by Geffan Pearlson

March 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Universal Children’s Day: Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage

November 17, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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International Conference on Family Planning

November 13, 2018 @ 10:00 am - November 14, 2018 @ 12:00 pm
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An Analysis: The Implementation Of Youth Centers In Musanze, Rwanda

October 10, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Combating Maternal Mortality: Ugandan lawsuit

September 20, 2018 @ 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
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Dr. Nouhou Presenting: Women’s Empowerment and Fertility Decision Making in Niger

May 2, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Dr. Prata and Natalie Morris Will Be Presenting at the Psychological Workshop and PAA

April 24, 2018 - April 28, 2018
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