Update: See a video of the webinar here » Over the past two decades, striking progress has been achieved in making pregnancy and childbirth safer in developing countries. However, a report issued by the Guttmacher Institute and the United Nations Population Fund finds a staggering lack of basic sexual and reproductive health services in developing countries. The report, Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Reproductive Health Services 2014, documents current levels of unmet need for modern…

Update: View a video of the webinar here In this webinar, Scott Radloff, senior scientist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, and Emily Sonneveldt, director for the Center of M&E and Advocacy at the Futures Institute, describe how mobile technology is being used by local data collectors in Africa and Asia to generate rapid-turnaround data, and how this information is being used in tandem with modeling that leverages service statistics to measure progress across…

Update: View a video of the webinar here In this recording of a webinar, Jennie E. Brand, associate professor of sociology and associate director of the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at UCLA, and Till von Wachter, associate professor of economics and faculty affiliate of CCPR at UCLA, discussed some of the short-term and long-term consequences of job loss and unemployment for families in the United States. Their discussion was followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers. This…