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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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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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An Analysis: The Implementation Of Youth Centers In Musanze, Rwanda

October 10, 2018 / Karen Weidert

Presentation by Bixby Summer Funding Award Recipient Kalee Singh

Kalee will present her analysis on the implementation of the Bixby Center’s youth center, based in the district of Musanze, Rwanda. The youth center model aims to utilize a multi-pronged approach–addressing both structural and social determinants–to improve the health and wellbeing of youth in Rwanda. The model, co- designed and managed by youth, strives to empower adolescents through the provision of comprehensive sexual education and linkages to high-quality, youth- friendly reproductive health services, livelihood skills, and general health information. The overarching goal of Kalee’s research was to develop a descriptive case study of the youth center model, documenting its effectiveness in addressing the health and wellbeing of adolescents and young adults in the Musanze district of Rwanda.

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Combating Maternal Mortality: Ugandan lawsuit

September 20, 2018 / Karen Weidert
The Uganda-based Center for Health, Human Rights and Development and the families of women who suffered preventable deaths in childbirth have sued the Ugandan government in a landmark case, demanding that the state provide minimum health guarantees to expectant mothers.
University of Wyoming Law Professor Noah Novogrodsky and UC Berkeley School of Public Health Professor Ndola Prata discuss the challenge of promoting social and economic rights through test-case litigation.
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP: tinyurl.com/HRC-maternal-mortality

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

May 2, 2018 / Karen Weidert

Join the OASIS Initiative (Organizing to Advance Solutions in the Sahel) and the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability for a talk by Dr. Nouhou Abdoul Moumouni, Director of OASIS Niger and a champion for women’s empowerment and family planning in the West African Sahel.

Dr. Nouhou will discuss strategies to improve family planning demand in Niger, with a focus on understanding women’s empowerment challenges. The fertility rate in Niger has been stagnant for the last 25 years at over seven children per woman, despite 20 years of population policy and decline in child mortality. Nouhou will discuss how girls and women’s empowerment influences fertility rates in Niger.

About the Speaker:

Nouhou Abdoul Moumouni, PhD

Director, OASIS Niger

Nouhou Abdoul Moumouni is a demographer-statistician involved in innovative work on demographic issues in West Africa. His PhD research focuses on the links between women’s empowerment and fertility projections, including the use of contraception. Nouhou believes in the potential of women to contribute to family welfare and the need for African countries to unlock this potential to accelerate economic and social development.
The OASIS Initiative aims to accelerate a demographic transition in the Sahel. We are building the evidence base and local leadership to help the region overcome serious development challenges. OASIS works to increase contraceptive uptake, delay the onset of childbearing, and empower girls and women to make strategic decisions about their reproductive lives.

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