Amol De Gabriel from the community-led media initiative Kakuma Cinema interviewed Bhavya Joshi, one of the Bixby Center's fellows on February 22, 2024 in Kakuma, Kenya. The conversation touched upon various topics, beginning with Bhavya’s background, and the purpose of her visit to Kakuma. She shared perspectives on the significance of her work in promoting reproductive health and well-being within the community. She concluded with a message to Kakuma's youth. The exchange highlighted the spirit of mutual learning and collaboration with the community.
Webinars and Presentations
Ndola Prata: Innovation Through Telemedicine Medication to Improve Medication Abortion Access in Musanze, Rwanda
Dr. Brown is the Bixby Center's postdoctoral scholar. She conducts her research through Pathfinder’s Climate Resilience Innovation Lab.
Climate change is having a profound effect on health – including sexual and reproductive health. Effectively addressing these risks will require new approaches and partnerships. Over the past several months, Dr. Brown has worked with staff at Pathfinder International to develop and pilot the Climate Resilience Innovation Lab (CRIL), a workshop series designed to use participatory active learning exercises to leverage existing research and knowledge, build community, and develop translatable skills for climate innovation aligned with local needs and vision. This talk will offer an overview of connections between climate and reproductive health, introduce the CRIL approach, and share lessons learned that can be applied in participatory and community-based design research.
Gender Equity and Climate Change: Opportunities for Connection
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has made clear the rapidly narrowing opportunity to enable climate resilient development. To create a different future, we must work differently, integrating across sectors, seeking synergy between climate and development actions, and highlighting diverse knowledge and innovation—especially from women and girls.
Women and girls may be the most affected by climate change—but they are also key to climate resilience and a thriving future.
This event was presented by U.C. Berkeley Bixby Center in collaboration with Pathfinder International.
Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergency Settings
This is Bhavya Joshi's research presentation for Bixby Center. Bhavya is a second year student in the DrPH Program at the School of Public Health , UC Berkeley. She was one of Bixby Center's Summer Internship recipients in 2022. Her work centered on the issues of sexual and reproductive health in the refugee areas of Croatia.
Ndola Prata with UCGHI in the Health Services Committee of the UC Board of Regents
In March 2023, Ndola Prata, the Bixby Center's Chair and University of California Global Health Institute's Co-Director, participated in the meeting with the Health Services Committee of the UC Board of Regents.
Perceptions of empowerment of birthing people in the San Francisco Bay Area: survey methods review
This is Renee Clarke's research presentation. She is a second year student in the SPH DrPH program, UC Berkeley. She is one of the Bixby Center's Summer Internship recipients in 2022.
Marcus Gay's UG Research Presentation April 28, 2021
In June 2019, 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)
Adolescent Reproductive Health: Decreasing risk and optimizing prospects
Ndola Prata MD, MS, associate professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health; director, Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability; and co-director, 14Y, presents at the school’s research symposium, “A Second Chance in the Second Decade: Adolescence as a Key Developmental Window to Transform Population Health,” December 8, 2014. Dr. Prata is a public health physician and medical demographer who conducts large-scale research in developing countries focusing on a wide range of topics related to adolescent reproductive health services.
Ndola Prata: Family Planning, fertility, and women’s empowerment in low and middle-income countries
Strategies to Move from Law to Health Practice: Embarking on a Program to Improve Reproductive Services for Girls and Women in Rwanda Ndola Prata UC Berkeley Bixby Center Chair, Professor of Public Health. Presentation at the Symposium on Gender Equity and Global Reproductive Health 2014, La Jolla, California. UCSD, Calit2, Qi, Qualcomm Institute.
Dr. Ndola Prata & Richard Trimble on Global Medicine with Dr. Z
Dr. Prata is an Angolan physician and medical demographer who has worked throughout Africa and Asia. She has designed the protocols and directed technical assistance and training for our clinical demonstration studies in Tanzania, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Zambia and Ethiopia. She is an Associate Professor in Residence of Maternal and Child Health in theSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley where she also holds the Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair in Population and Family Planning. Dr. Prata is also the Director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ndola Prata MD, MSc: Effects of husband/partner approval on modern methods of contraception use in Angola
Effects of husband/partner approval and encouragement on modern methods of contraception use in Angola. Ndola Prata, UC Berkeley Bixby Center Chair, Prof of Public Health. Presentation at the Symposium on Gender Equity and Global Reproductive Health 2014, La Jolla, California. UCSD, Calit2, Qi, Qualcomm Institute.
Ndola Prata: Financing and Distribution Strategies to Increase Access to Contraceptives
Ndola Prata's lecture in May 2012: Financing and Distribution Strategies to Increase Access to Contraceptives
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