The Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability

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UC Global Health Day 2018: Committing to a Healthier World

This system-wide conference on global health, now in its sixth year, showcases the outstanding research, training and outreach taking place across the University of California and is an amazing opportunity for UC students, fellows, faculty, staff and visiting scholars to gather to share their work. Click for more info!

Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs)

By training front line health workers, like traditional birth attendants, 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.

Global Health Expert Panel: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health

Join UCGHI for an expert panel with an interdisciplinary discussion on Maternal Health, Infectious Disease, and Climate Change. Our panelists from across the UC system will be discussing current challenges and opportunities in Global Health.

UC Global Health Day 2018: Committing to a Healthier World
This system-wide conference on global health, now in its sixth year, showcases the outstanding research, training and outreach taking place across the University of California and is an amazing opportunity for UC students, fellows, faculty, staff and visiting scholars to gather to share their work. Click for more info!

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

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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UC Berkeley Center for Global Public Health has Research Fellowship Opportunities

The Center for Global Public Health established its annual graduate student research fellowships in 2008 to provide experiential learning for Berkeley students who are interested in global public health. This year, eight to ten research fellowships in the amount of $3,000-$5,000 will be awarded to qualified students who are selected, via a competitive evaluation process, […]

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The special issue on women’s health, gender and empowerment is now available on BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Research Edited by: Ndola Prata, Paula Tavrow, and Ushma Upadhyay Published: 8 November 2017 The link to the supplement is permanently accessible via the Supplements link on the article page of the journal website. Empowerment is widely acknowledged as a process by which those who have been disempowered are able to increase their self-efficacy, make life-enhancing decisions, and […]

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Dr. Prata Serves as Discussant in IUUSP 2017

Tuesday, October 31 2017 at 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Discussant Ndola Prata – University of California, Berkeley Organiser Susheela Singh – Guttmacher Institute For more information: http://ipc2017capetown.iussp.org/

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Dr. Prata Presents at the IUSSP Conference 2017

Engaging Men in Family Planning: Perspectives from Married Men in Lomé, Togo October 30th, 2017 at 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM Short Abstract Although family planning activities have made vast progress in many regions of sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade, lack of male engagement in many of these interventions has resulted in disappointing outcomes. […]

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Events

Dr. Nouhou Presenting: Women’s Empowerment and Fertility Decision Making in Niger

May 2 @ 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 - April 28
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Dr. Marc Mitchell Will be Presenting The Health Systems of the Future–Here Today

April 23 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Bixby Internship Presentation on The Impacts of Heavy Load Carrying on the Reproductive, Musculoskeletal, and Physiological Health of Sand Miners in Nepal

March 12 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Bixby Team Meeting – Summer Internship Presentation on research with Uganda Youth Development Link

February 26 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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i4Y Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group: Speaker Series

February 7 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Global Health Expert Panel: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health

November 7, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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i4Y Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group: Speaker Series

October 26, 2017 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
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