The Population Council is an international nonprofit, nongovernmental organization founded in 1952. The Council seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between...
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The Population Council is an international nonprofit, nongovernmental organization founded in 1952. The Council seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council is governed by an international board of trustees. Its New York headquarters supports a global network of regional and country offices.
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The Population Council is an international nonprofit, nongovernmental organization founded in 1952. The Council seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between...
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The Population Council is an international nonprofit, nongovernmental organization founded in 1952. The Council seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council is governed by an international board of trustees. Its New York headquarters supports a global network of regional and country offices.
The Council conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research. It works with public and private agencies to promote client-centered reproductive health services of high quality, and helps governments design and implement just and sustainable population and development policies. The Council also helps build research capacities in developing countries, and communicates the results of its own research in the population field to a wide audience.
The Council publishes journals, an annual report, newsletters, working papers, fact books, handbooks, brochures, monographs, and reports. Serial publications: Studies in Family Planning (journal, quarterly - articles and commentary on family planning and related health and development issues), Population and Development Review (journal, quarterly - articles and essays on the interaction between population dynamics and socioeconomic development, book reviews), and Population Briefs (newsletter, quarterly - reports on Population Council research). There is a charge for some publications; the charge is waived for qualified recipients in developing countries.
Research focus: Biomedical, social science, and public health research. Analyzes demographic trends; conducts biomedical research to understand human reproductive physiology more fully, leading to development of new contraceptives and reproductive health products; works with public and private agencies to promote client-centered reproductive health services of high quality; helps governments design and implement population and development policies; communicates the results of research in the population field; and helps build research capacities in developing countries.
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