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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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Transformative approaches to gender justice in sexual and reproductive health

July 31, 2020 / bixby

From: Sumstine, Stephanie <SSumstine@mednet.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2020
Subject: [WHGE] New Special Issue: Transformative approaches to gender justice in sexual and reproductive health

Women’s empowerment has received increasing attention over the past three decades from fields as diverse as epidemiology, economic development, and social justice. Considerable research has shown that unequal power dynamics between women and men leads to numerous poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including increased risk of HIV, greater morbidity in childbearing, and higher levels of gender-based violence. Culture, defined broadly as the social and structural underpinnings of human behavior, works at various socio-ecological levels to sustain the unequal power dynamics that drive poor health outcomes.

Despite progress, terms such as “women’s empowerment,” “gender transformation,” and “masculinities,” are frequently used without clear definition, impeding the ability of researchers and policy makers to determine whether or not they have been attained. There is a dearth of conceptual and empirical work articulating “gender transformation” as either an outcome or a step in a broader process that results in improved health for individuals or communities. As structural approaches gain traction in the field of public health, there is a pressing need to open the ‘black box’ of empowerment and other gender-oriented interventions to better understand the mechanisms that lead to success and failure.

To address this evidence gap, the University of California Global Health Institute’s Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment prepared  a special issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality journal on Transformative Approaches for Gender Justice in Sexual and Reproductive Health, led by Guest Editors Rebecca Fielding-Miller and Abigail Hatcher. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tchs20/22/sup1?nav=tocList&

UCGHI CHS announcement_Final 7.31.20

 

 

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

October 7, 2019 / Karen Weidert

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

October 2, 2019 / Karen Weidert

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

September 26, 2019 / Karen Weidert

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

September 12, 2019 / Karen Weidert

 

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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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