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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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Pandemic Lockdowns Disrupted Family Planning and Other Reproductive Health Care Worldwide

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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High Premature Birth Rates Among U.S. Black Women May Reflect the Stress of Racism and Health and Economic Factors

Racism-related stress may help explain why Black women in the United States are over 50% more likely to deliver a premature baby than white women. Just over 14% of Black women have premature births compared with 9% of white women.1 These stark racial disparities have been documented for more than a century, reports Catherine Cubbin…

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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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Recent Journal Articles by NICHD-Funded Population Centers Show Breadth of Research on Emerging Health Issues

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) recently published a new Strategic Plan focused on the Institute’s research and training efforts to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. PRB created a list of illustrative grants and recently…

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