Fellowships
The Population Council’s fellowship programs have helped advance the careers of social and biomedical scientists, public health researchers, and program managers throughout the world. The work of Council fellows has fostered research and informed the creation of population, health, and development policies and programs.
We thank the Fred H. Bixby Foundation for a generous grant that enables the Council to offer fellowships to young professionals, primarily from developing countries, to prepare them for leadership in the population, health, and development fields. (The application deadline for this year's Fred H. Bixby Fellowship Program was 15 January 2010, but applications for future years will be accepted later in 2010.)
Other fellowships include: in India, fellowships to develop leadership skills of individuals working in reproductive health and sexual rights, especially in areas related to young people and to maternal mortality and morbidity; in Pakistan, small-scale grants for research projects in reproductive health that have direct practical relevance to the needs of Pakistan; in Sudan, small grants for individual capacity-building; and in Vietnam, a postdoctoral fellowship program to facilitate research on reproductive health, health service systems, and poverty. A list of Council fellows is available as an addendum to the Population Council's annual report.
Technical assistance/institution building
Since the Council's founding in 1952, the number of requests for advice from developing country leaders has grown considerably. In response, Population Council staff members realized that training and institution building should be added to the organization's portfolio of activities as a means for achieving its mission.
The Council provides technical assistance, offers workshops, and teaches courses for local institutions, donors, as well as governmental and nongovernmental agencies. Investments in training and strengthening capacity ensure that the Population Council can make a continuing contribution to reproductive health and family planning programs and policies.
What's New
Schooling and Conflict in Darfur: A Snapshot of Basic Education Services for Displaced Children. The Population Council, in collaboration with the Women’s Refugee Commission, conducted a survey of basic educational services and facilities in North and West Darfur in 2008. Read about their findings in this report, forthcoming in March. To order a copy, contact publications@popcouncil.org
BMJ has announced the nominees for its prestigious annual award for "Getting Research into Practice." The Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Practice (SHHEP) group—to which ABBA, a Population Council–led consortium, belongs—was nominated for successfully "advocating research findings to change the law in Ghana so that survivors of gender based and sexual violence are no longer forced to pay for their own medical tests to prove assault in court." Read more about this on page 6 of the linked PDF. (offsite link)
New statistics project more than five million fewer deaths from AIDS in 2030 than previously estimated. The Population Council's John Bongaarts and co-authors François Pelletier and Patrick Gerland address the cause and implications of the revised estimate in a recent article in The Lancet, "How many more AIDS deaths?" (more)
The Population Council applauds the US government’s renewed support and dedication to meeting the health and development goals laid out in the ICPD and other related UN agreements. (more)
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