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The Overpopulation Project presented a film, an interview with Malcolm Potts. 

The Social Science and Medicine has published Ndola Prata's new article that she co-authored with Alma LiliaJuárez Armenta: The Impact of Neighborhood Violence on Domestic Femicides in Mexico: A Demonstration of the Causal Inference Roadmap.   Please click here to read the article.

This fall 2025 semester Professor Ndola Prata has six exceptional undergraduate students from the PH181 course Poverty and Population who have communicated with their United States representatives, expressing their strong arguments for contraceptives as foreign aid for USAID, comprehensive sex education in public schools, abortion pills, community protection from hunger and climate stress, food security and women's access to reproductive care.  These students are Rishabh Ganesh Balamitran, Raka Bose, Alyssa Chan, Rosalie Güitrón, 

This summer, Dr. Ndola Prata, Chair of the Bixby Center, mentored high school students participating in the University Global Health Institute (UCGHI) Summer Researchers in Global Health program. Student interns were introduced to a myriad of global health issues and solutions through lectures, outreach activities and fieldwork. This cohort's independent project focused on global maternal, child and adolescent health.

The Bixby Center is co-sponsoring the Summer School on Refugee and Migrant Health in Bern, Switzerland, September 9-12. This session offers a unique opportunity to impart specialist and background knowledge in the field of migration and refugee healthcare and to prepare health professionals for the challenges and special features in the treatment of patients with a migration background. More details and registration information can be found here

Can Women’s Empowerment Accelerate Fertility Decline in Angola

Ndola Prata, Bixby Center, UC Berkeley
Karen Weidert, University of California, Berkeley

Impact on Reproductive Health Service Delivery in Kakuma and Kalobeyei Camps during Compounded Crises: A Qualitative Study

BHAVYA JOSHI, University of California, Berkeley
Ndola Prata, Bixby Center, UC Berkeley

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

Please read here.

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 countless individuals he touched and the careers he so generously nurtured.

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 populations first and drive sustainable policy change.  Click here to see her and her teams with refugees to support women's health.

Dr. Julia Walsh, Senior Research Scientist at the Bixby Center, has co-founded the UC Berkeley Climate and Society Center (CSC).

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 Governor Inslee (Washington).  Click here to read the students' exceptional work!

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.

First project

Title: What happens to abortion rights for refugees in Africa when they cross borders?

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 Conference in Lilongwe, Malawi. She co-authored this work with Bixby Center Executive Director Karen Weidert MPH.

Research paper title: Can Women’s Empowerment Accelerate Fertility Decline in Angola?