Sexual and Reproductive Health

  • Women’s, reproductive, infant, and child health

    After years of improvement, the slowing pace of progress across many reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition outcomes has demonstrated that some populations are particularly challenging to reach with life-saving products, programs, and interventions. In general, the public health community has found it difficult to define and describe these hard-to-reach populations because there…

  • Program implications of intent to use: An analysis of women’s contraceptive intentions in ten low- and middle-income geographies

    Central to the ongoing debate surrounding rights-based family planning measures is the need for a woman-centered paradigm. Despite this debate, in the 30 years since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, widely used family planning measures have evolved relatively slowly. In this paper, we describe the utilization of an understudied family planning indicator—women’s…

  • FPsim: an agent-based model of family planning

    The behavioral and biological underpinnings of family planning (FP) unfold on an individual level, across a full reproductive lifecourse, and within a complex system of social and structural constraints. Yet, much of the existing FP modeling landscape hasfocused solely on macro- or population-level dynamics of family planning. There is a need for an individual-based approach…