Reproductive Health Events
The Role of Women and Healthy Families: Global Perspectives of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
December 07, 2006 // 2:30pm — 4:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Poverty, population, and contraception are complex issues closely related to the rights of women around the world. The fall edition of WorldView, the magazine of the National Peace Corps Association, examines how these issues impact poorer communities in the developing world.
The Population Institute's 27th Annual Global Media Awards
December 05, 2006 // 9:00am — 4:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The ECSP Report was recently named the winner of the Population Institute's 27th Annual Global Media Award for Best Population Journal. The 11th edition of the ECSP Report received the award for promoting dialogue on the connections among environment, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.
Film Screening and Discussion: The Cardamoms: Have Forest, Have Life
October 11, 2006 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
A new community outreach film attempts to reverse years of ecological damage in southwest Cambodia by instilling in local communities a sense of stewardship in the land upon which they rely.
The Lancet's Maternal Survival Series: An Urgent Call to Action
October 05, 2006 // 9:30am — 12:00pm
Global Health Initiative
The new Maternal Survival Series in the British medical journal The Lancet calls attention to the progress and the challenges of reducing maternal mortality in both the developing and the developed world, and outlines what the authors believe to be the "best bet" strategy for preventing these deaths.
Health Provision in Fragile Settings: A Stabilizing Force?
September 12, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Experts discuss discuss best practices for conducting health work in fragile or post-conflict countries, as well as the potential impact of health systems on stability and security in rebuilding states during the fourth meeting in ECSP's Health, Population, and Fragility series.
Environmental Vulnerability in Haiti
August 02, 2006 // 9:00am — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
A Stakeholder Workshop to Discuss Findings and Recommendations with USAID's Technical Assessment Team
Securing Health: Lessons from Nation-Building Missions
July 26, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Ross Anthony and Seth Jones discuss their new edited volume, which reviews past efforts to establish health services in countries recovering from conflict. The book's contributors examine how post-conflict instability affects health programming, as well as how such programming forms an essential component of nation building.
Governance and Corruption in Public Health Care Systems
June 14, 2006 // 10:30am — 12:00pm
Global Health Initiative
Governance is not typically addressed in the health sector. Maureen Lewis, fellow at the Center for Global Development, draws on examples from her new paper to show that good governance is crucial to effective health care delivery.
The Security Demographic: Assessing the Evidence
June 13, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Drawing on three decades of data, Richard Cincotta and Jack Goldstone explore the relationship between demography and conflict—critical to the USAID reexamination of the Fragile/Rebuilding States strategy.
Civil Strife in the Developing World: New Insights on Connections Among Environment, Demography, and Conflict
May 02, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Colin Kahl and Marvin Ott examine how demographic and environmental factors can create turmoil in many countries and regions, and also create threats to national security.