Philippine

A film interview with Malcolm Potts

June 18, 2026
The Overpopulation Project presented a film, an interview with Malcolm Potts.

"Malcolm Potts, who died April 2025 at the age of 90, was a professor in Maternal and Child Health and holder of the Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair in Population and Family Planning in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, USA. As physician, reproductive scientist and contraceptive evangelist, Potts spent more than half a century directing programs that provided family planning services to women in developing countries. For instance, he helped to develop and promote the device most frequently used to...

Are There Differences between the Stress Responses of Philippine Men and Women to the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Divya Periyakoil
Preethi Periyakoil
Cherica A Tee
Costas J Spanos
Marie Diener-West
Michael Tee
Ndola Prata
2023

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had a deleterious impact on human health since its beginning in 2019. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and determine if there were differential impacts on women compared to men. A web-based survey was conducted in the Luzon Islands of the Philippines, during the pandemic quarantine. A total of 1879 participants completed online surveys between 28 March–12 April 2020. A bivariate analysis of both men and women for each psychological measure (stress, anxiety, depression, and impact...