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Project: Breakthrough RESEARCH
Interactive. Research Spotlight: USAID Tulonge Afya’s NAWEZA Platform
Building Evidence to Inform Practice for Integrated Social and Behavior Change Programming
Health Sector Reform: How It Affects Reproductive Health
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
New Research Finds Health-Promoting Improvements Concentrated in More Advantaged U.S. Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods that are more walkable, with accessible public transportation, and amenities such as parks that promote physical and social activity are associated with better health.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
Youth Family Planning Policy Scorecard: Measuring Commitment to Effective Policy and Program Interventions
PRB’s Youth Family Planning Policy Scorecard evaluates the favorability of 28 current national policy and program environments for youth access to sexual and reproductive health services.
The U.S. Census Tradition
At the fractious Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, America's founders conceived the idea of a national census to determine the number of representatives each state would send to Congress.
Empowering Communities to Reduce the Impact of Infectious Diseases
(2004) Infectious diseases continue to cause ill health and deaths to millions worldwide, despite advances in public health over the last 100 years — advances that include the development of vaccines and antibiotics and improvements in sanitation.
Are U.S. Girls Becoming More Violent?
(2006) Adolescent U.S. girls are being arrested in record numbers. And every year brings new media attention to mean or aggressive girls' behavior—with sensational newspaper headlines and book titles such as See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It and Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence.1 Could there be an epidemic of violence in the United States among girls—who have traditionally been considered more mature and less trouble to raise than boys?