Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Reproductive Health Services
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...
Children of Incarcerated Parents
UPDATE: See a video of the webinar >> The United States has more than 2 million people behind bars, and 45 percent were living with their children before they were imprisoned. U.S. children of incarcerated parents are an extremely vulnerable group, and much more likely to have behavioral problems and physical and mental health conditions...
U.S. Marriage, Divorce, Childbearing Trends Bring New Risks for Parents, Children
UPDATE: See videos of the presentations >> Increased childbearing outside marriage, more parents with children from more than one partner, and a shrinking share of married people in the U.S. population have brought new complexity to U.S. family life, and risks for the health and well-being of children and parents. Several noted demographers and social...
Extreme Poverty and Health in the United States
Update: See the video from the webinar >> Studies show that a growing number of U.S. families have incomes so low that the difficulties of their living situations may be masked by thinking of the poor as a homogeneous group. For instance, since the mid-1990s the number of families living on less than $2.00 in...
Dating Violence and Safety on College Campuses: Using Technology to Change the Climate
Update: See our recap of this event here. Presenters included: Michele Decker, associate professor, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and co-chair of the university’s Sexual Violence Advisory Committee (slides: PDF). Nancy Glass, professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and associate director of the university’s Center...
Small Towns/Big Changes: The Shifting Demographics of Rural America
Update: See our recap of this event and videos of presentations here. Trends shaping rural life in America include unprecedented population declines, a growing Hispanic population, a disproportionate share of military veterans, and a sharp increase in “deaths of despair”—related to suicide, alcohol abuse, and drug overdose—among rural residents with low education levels. At “Small...