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Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

  • Elizabeth Gershoff, Director
  • Jennifer Glass, Associate Director
  • Catherine Calder, Associate Director

The mission of the Population Research Center (PRC) is to provide the resources and culture that are necessary to facilitate the highest level of population-related research through the submission of federal and foundation grants, the training of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, the production and publication of population-related knowledge, and the dissemination of this work through scholarly meetings, presentations, workshops, teaching, media outlets, and the web. The PRC is an NICHD-funded center.

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Youth in the United States who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) face widening health disparities compared with their straight or cisgender peers, and LGBQ young adults experience more psychological distress and suicidal thinking than older generations of LGBQ Americans, recent studies show.1 (Responses from transgender participants were examined separately.) “We are…

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Shutdowns and restrictions early in the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted contraceptive services, abortion access, and other sexual and reproductive health care across the globe, new research shows. In many places, providers shifted toward telemedicine; in the United States, more women received medication abortions. But women from disadvantaged groups faced more obstacles to receiving care as the…

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Population Research Center, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

This list includes articles in PubMed as of July 11, 2022 with a PubMed entry date between April 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022 that reference P2C, R24, or T32 grant support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and oversight by Population Dynamics Branch Program Officials. Recent Articles…

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