Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
(2020) Nearly everyone has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic that is sweeping the globe, straining health systems and people’s abilities to maintain their livelihoods.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
(2011) Millions of young women around the world are married before they turn 18, many against their will and in violation of international laws and conventions on women's rights.
(2008) A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports on a sex ratio that favors boys among U.S.-born children in Indian, Korean, and Chinese families.
(2009) It is estimated that 5,000 women worldwide are murdered every year in so-called "honor killings"—committed by a woman's relatives in order to cleanse the family of acts the woman has engaged in that they consider "immoral."
(2008) Research has shown that growing up in poverty leads to negative health, social, and economic consequences for children that often continue in adulthood.
(2002) Cohabitation is profoundly reshaping family life in the United States. The share of children born to parents who lived together but were not married nearly doubled between 1984 and 1994, growing from 6 percent to 11 percent.
(2020) The world is better equipped to fight a pandemic today than it was in 1918, when influenza swept the globe and infected up to one-third of the world’s population.1 While science and medical advances have given us new advantages in fighting disease, some demographic trends since 1918 may increase the risk for spreading contagions and our vulnerability to viruses.