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

November 30, 2020 / Karen Weidert / News

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

November 11, 2020 / Karen Weidert / News

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 board members: Maame Afon Yelbert-Sai and Ndola Prata.

Maame is from Ghana and has been active with the Global Women’s Fund and a program called Moremi that supports young African women in their own leadership journeys. She and Ndola will join Laura for an intimate discussion about women’s leadership. They will both be speaking about their own pathway towards leadership; Ndola will begin with her childhood in Angola, her work at UCB, and her international policy and advocacy work.

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpc-GqrD4vGdF_8m44Zge9t4fW6uf9UcOg

 

 

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Job Opening: GSR for Spring 2021 Semester

October 20, 2020 / Karen Weidert / News

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER OPPORTUNITY

Planning SRH services for adolescents: using a discrete choice experiment approach

SPRING 2021

Background

The Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability within the School of Public health is looking for a graduate level student to contribute to a new US based study. The study will employ a discrete choice experiment (DCE) approach to elicit adolescents’ preferences for sexual and reproductive health services including contraceptive methods. We will explore what makes young people adopt modern methods, and what service characteristics are attractive to them.

Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a quantitative technique for eliciting preferences that can be used in the absence of revealed preference data. The method involves asking individuals to state their preferences over hypothetical alternative scenarios, goods or services. Respondents are presented with choices and asked to indicate which of two or more alternatives they would be most likely to choose2; this may include an option to choose none. This approach is particularly useful when information on actual choices is unavailable, when there is little variation among currently available alternatives and for exploring preferences for new services not yet available outside clinic services. All of these reasons apply to the case of adolescent SRH in California, especially in underserved areas. DCE data can also be used to develop strategies for the introduction of new services, service delivery models or policies as well as to monitor existing services by tailoring them to youth preferences.

Appointment Period: January 12- May 14, 2021

*Possibility to extend through summer semester

Time commitment: 10 hours per week (25%)

Total compensation: GSR Level II @ 25% with partial fee remission

Position Responsibilities

  • Conduct literature reviews on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) to identify an initial set of contraceptive methods attributes for potential inclusion in the DCE.
  • Conduct in-depth interviews with adolescents (via Zoom) to ensure final set of attributes are relevant and valid for this population and that we did not miss a key attribute.
  • Support PIs in development of attribute combinations and choice sets for the 10 item questionnaire.
  • Collaborate with PIs to submit the Center for Protection of Human Subjects at UC Berkeley, seeking study approval, including support in developing a full study protocol including consent forms, data collection tools and data management procedures.
  • Pilot test the questionnaire and oversee revisions.
  • Interview adolescents 15-19 years via Zoom using structured questionnaire.
  • Conduct data entry and code of explanatory variables.
  • Supports PIs in data analysis, including identification of interaction effects, with the type of choice modeled (binary or multinomial). Response data will be modelled within a benefit (or satisfaction) function which provides information on whether or not the given characteristics of the methods are important; the relative importance of characteristics; the rate at which individuals are willing to trade between characteristics; and overall benefit scores for alternative scenarios.
  • Support interpreting and writing up results as needed.

Direct Supervisor: Ndola Prata, Faculty Director of Bixby Center

Qualifications

  • Completed at least 1 year of Master’s or Doctoral program in School of Public Health.
  • High interest, and relevant coursework and experience in adolescent SRH, particularly US based.
  • Experience with advanced statistical methods, with demonstrated expertise in organization and analysis of quantitative datasets and statistical modeling.
  • Excellent organizational skills and academic writing.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • A collaborative approach and ability to work independently.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and with adolescents.
  • Due to the position funding source, applicants must be a California Resident.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience designing and implementing discrete choice experiments, a quantitative technique for eliciting preference data

 

To apply, email bixbycenter@berkeley.edu with CV/resume and cover letter.

Deadline: October 30, 2020

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Shining the light on abortion: Drivers of online abortion searches across the United States in 2018

July 25, 2020 / Karen Weidert / News

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1alVK98R6zJ8fAbEmvwA-pFoOsldLwDdv/view?usp=sharing

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Ndola Prata, MD, MSc: Planetary Health Solutions

June 30, 2019 / Karen Weidert / In the Media, News

Ndola Prata, MD, MSC, presented at the Stanford WHSDM Women’s Global Health Forum. Dr. Prata is a Professor in Residence, Maternal Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Californina, Berkeley; Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair in Population and Family Planning, Director, Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, Co-Director, Innovations for Youth (I4Y) School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley Co-Director, Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment University of California, Global Health Institute (UCGHI)

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New Bixby Publication in The Royal Society about Making family planning accessible in resource-poor settings

June 11, 2019 / Karen Weidert / In the Media, News, Press Release, Stories from the field

Abstract

It is imperative to make family planning more accessible in low resource settings. The poorest couples have the highest fertility, the lowest contraceptive use and the highest unmet need for contraception. It is also in the low resource settings where maternal and child mortality is the highest. Family planning can contribute to improvements in maternal and child health, especially in low resource settings where overall access to health services is limited. Four critical steps should be taken to increase access to family planning in resource-poor settings: (i) increase knowledge about the safety of family planning methods; (ii) ensure contraception is genuinely affordable to the poorest families; (iii) ensure supply of contraceptives by making family planning a permanent line item in healthcare system’s budgets and (iv) take immediate action to remove barriers hindering access to family planning methods. In Africa, there are more women with an unmet need for family planning than women currently using modern methods. Making family planning accessible in low resource settings will help decrease the existing inequities in achieving desired fertility at individual and country level. In addition, it could help slow population growth within a human rights framework. The United Nations Population Division projections for the year 2050 vary between a high of 10.6 and a low of 7.4 billion. Given that most of the growth is expected to come from today’s resource-poor settings, easy access to family planning could make a difference of billions in the world in 2050.

To learn more, access the paper here.

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Measuring #MeToo: A National Study on Sexual Harassment and Assault

May 2, 2019 / Karen Weidert / In the Media, News, Press Release, Stories from the field

The UC San Diego Center on Gender Equity and Health is proud to share findings from their 2019 study on sexual harassment and assault in the United States, “Measuring #MeToo: A National Study on Sexual Harassment and Assault”. This work, conducted in partnership with Stop Street Harassment, Raliance, and Promundo, non-governmental organizations focused on prevention of harmful social norms and violence nationally and globally, was conducted with a nationally representative survey of 1,182 women and 1,037 men. Key findings of this study are  that 81% of women and 43% of men have experienced some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime nationwide, and approximately one-third of people admit to perpetration of sexual harassment. However, only 1-2% of individuals has ever been accused of sexual harassment or assault, indicating that sexual harassment is widespread, particularly among women, but accusations remain very rare.

Street Harassment Factsheet 

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Student Advocacy Day for SB 24

March 21, 2019 / Karen Weidert / In the Media, News, Stories from the field

Last week, students from the Bixby Center joined students from all over California to lobby senators at the Capitol in support of SB 24, a fully-funded bill that would mandate California UCs and CSUs to provide medication abortion. Community colleges and private institutions may opt-in to receive funding grants as well.

Trust students! Do not allow barriers to their healthcare access!

#justCARE #SB24 #caleg

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

January 24, 2019 / Karen Weidert / In the Media, News

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

July 17, 2018 / Karen Weidert / News, Press Release

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 learn more, access the paper here.

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