Population Events
The Population Institute's 28th Annual Global Media Awards
December 05, 2007 // 11:00am — 3:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The winners of PI's 2007 Global Media Awards—including individual journalists and development practitioners from Cameroon, Malawi, and the Philippines, as well as media outlets such as Inter Press Service, E/The Environmental Magazine, and the Vancouver Sun—discuss their winning projects.
Health, Population, and Nutrition in India: Key Findings from the 2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3)
November 05, 2007 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
Global Health Initiative
The Wilson Center hosts the U.S. launch of India's much-anticipated third National Family Household Survey, which provides vital health and welfare indicators.
Book Discussion: Too Poor For Peace? Links Between Poverty, Conflict, Demography, and Environment
October 05, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Poverty not only causes insecurity in individuals' lives, but can also contribute to broader political instability, say contributors to "Too Poor for Peace."
Discussion: The Shape of Things to Come
October 02, 2007 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Elizabeth Leahy presents the main findings of the new PAI report—which examines age structure and its bearing on political stability, democratic governance, and economic development.
Why is Urban Assistance Important? Inserting Urban Issues Into the Development Agenda
September 24, 2007 // 9:00am — 1:00pm
Comparative Urban Studies Project
This is the concluding seminar of the CUSP series on Global Urban Poverty.
Report Discussion: Return of the Population Growth Factor
September 12, 2007 // 2:00pm — 5:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
A report that grew out of hearings held by the UK Parliament concludes that it will be difficult or impossible to achieve the MDGs with the current rate of population growth in the world's poorest countries.
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor: The Orangi Pilot Project in Karachi, Pakistan and Density & Urban Form in Dakar, Senegal
September 07, 2007 // 9:00am — 11:30am
Comparative Urban Studies Project
According to the United Nations, over one billion people lack access to clean water and over two billion have no access to sanitation, the primary cause of diseases like cholera that take the lives of more than 6,000 children in poor countries every day.
The State of the World's Population: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth
June 27, 2007 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Global Health Initiative
Is urbanization really bad?, asks George Martine, lead author of the UN Population Fund's recent report.
The Role of Gender in Population, Health, and Environment Programs
June 19, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Experts advocate greater integration of gender into reproductive health and sustainable livelihood programs.
Demographic Shifts and Civil Conflict
June 13, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Speakers discuss their current research on demographic security, and argue for greater inclusion of demographics into the study of other social sciences, particularly in their field of political science.