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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.

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.

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

After a long nine years of waiting, the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) finally received the judgement in the famous Petition 16 maternal health case on Aug 19, 2020. The judgment recognizes basic maternal health care services and emergency obstetric care. The Bixby Center co-authored a report which was used as key evidence in this case. The Court ordered the government to implement several immediate financial and structural remedies, several of which were recommended by the Bixby Center in the report. See full judgement: https://bit.ly/3gcsEcm

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

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

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

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Core Research

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

Special Programs and Initiatives

The Bixby Center has special programs and initiatives that address complex multi-factorial population issues and development challenges. These programs include The OASIS Initiative in the Sahel region in Africa, Global Reproductive Health, and Women's Empowerment.

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  • Bixby Center’s Affiliate UC Global Health’s Creative Expression Contest!

    UC Global Health Day 2021 Creative Expression Contest Contest winners will receive a $500 cash prize! Please explore contest details below. Deadline for submissions: March 28, 2021 We are thrilled to invite you to submit to the Creative Expression Contest in photography, video and poetry. Selected submissions will be featured in this year’s UC Global Health Day on April […]

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    Bixby Center’s affiliate CEGA has an open job opportunity

    Senior Associate or Project Manager,  Finance and Reporting The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) seeks an enthusiastic and resourceful full-time Senior Associate or Project Manager to support center-wide administration. A critical member of the Operations team, you will work across the Center to activate funded research, enhance financial management and information systems, and strengthen […]

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    Recommendations to Improve Medication-Assisted Treatment Implementation in Correctional Health

    Letters Recommendations to Improve Medication-Assisted Treatment Implementation in Correctional Health Authors: Clayton A. Barnes, M.D., M.P.H., Andrea N. Ponce, B.A., Rachel Loewy, Ph.D.   Special thanks to Ndola Prata, MD, MSc Dr. Ndola Prata mentored Andrea N. Ponce in her Honors Thesis identifying determinants of modern contraceptive use among Filipina women of reproductive age. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in […]

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    Child Marriage: Latest Trends & Future Prospects

    Bixby Center is sponsoring the I4Y Speaker Series Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 12:30-1:30 pm Presenter: Claudia Cappa, UNICEF Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/I4YCMYE-1 Click this url to see this flyer https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O7WDfoeB3F4EgPuDfrCPomFyAPqX0kQP/view      

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  • Student Job Opportunity

    Bixby Center is seeking a student research assistant with background in graphic design to create two infographics to depict the key findings from the research brief as described below.  This research was funded by UNICEF. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Gender-based differences remain prevalent in adolescent development despite global recognition and efforts to address such inequalities. Drawing on […]

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    Preventing post-partum haemorrhage at home during COVID-19: what are we waiting for?

    Authors: Karen Hobday, Ndola Prata, Jennifer Hulme and Caroline SE Homer https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2214-109X(21)00003-6    

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    Ndola Prata will lecture at the FIGO Africa Regional Kigali Congress December 2020

    Virtual Event with a Hub in Kigali Please click this url to register: https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/cac75c62-e3b5-4c1e-8e92-14437f662b59/websitePage:80d68191-d123-4ddd-b1ee-e48a1c89febc?environment=production-eu&5S%2CM3%2Ccac75c62-e3b5-4c1e-8e92-14437f662b59=

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    The Power of Leadership – November 13, 2020

    Please join alumna Laura Stachel MD, MPH, DrPH and Dr. Ndola Prata at a webinar entitled The Power of Leadership, November 13, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. As part of their 10 year anniversary, We Care Solar is hosting a series of webinars. This week, they are presenting The Power of Leadership featuring two of their […]

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    Child Marriage: Latest Trends and Future Prospects

    February 9 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Transformative approaches to gender justice in sexual and reproductive health

    July 31, 2020

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    A Glimpse at the Vulnerable Population’s Access to Sexual Health Service in China

    October 7, 2019 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

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    What do Climate Change and Girls’ Education have to do with Food Security in the Sahel?

    October 2, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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  • Abortion Policies and Interprofessional Conflict in US Ob-Gyn Teaching Hospitals: A Mixed Methods Study

    September 26, 2019 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

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    Gaps in data, the importance of language, and existing initiatives underway that address the queer community

    September 12, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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    Uptake of long acting reversible contraceptives in Musanze, Rwanda: integration of family planning services into primary healthcare 2016-2017

    May 20, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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    Population & Food Security in the Sahel: a consideration of integrated rural extension services

    May 16, 2019 @ 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

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