Abt
Associates Inc.
Health Systems 20/20
Advocates for Youth
Battelle
Seattle Research Center
Jan Schueller, Librarian
1100 Dexter Avenue North, Suite 400
Seattle, WA, 98109-3598
United States
Phone: (206) 528-3372
FAX: (206)528-3556.
Email: schuelle@battelle.org
Bread for the World
Brown University Population Studies and Training Center
Daniel O'Mahony, Information Specialist
Box 1836
Population Studies & Training Center
Providence, RI, 02912-1836
United States
Phone: (401) 863-9445
Email: daniel_o'mahony@brown.edu
The Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) at Brown University, formally established in 1965, is an internationally respected demography research and training center offering an outstanding interdisciplinary graduate training program.
Areas of research interest include social demography, economic demography, anthropological demography, and population health.
Carolina Population Center - see University of North Carolina
Centers
For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
Emma Stupp
4770 Buford Highway,
NE, MS K-13
Atlanta, GA, 30341-3717
United States
Phone: (770) 488-5080
FAX: (770) 488-5969
Email: egs2@cdc.gov
NCCDPHP
was established in 1988 to consolidate Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) efforts in chronic disease prevention and health promotion.
Constella Futures
Katherine H. Willson, Manager-Information
Services
One Thomas Circle NW Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005 USA
Email: kwillson@constellagroup.com
Constella Futures is a Constella Group company dedicated to developing solutions
for sustainable futures through the application of innovative policy,
marketing, communications, education, training and research techniques.
East-West Center
Research Information
Services - OPAC
Phyllis Tabusa, Research Info Specialist
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848
United States
Phone: (808) 944-7450
FAX: (808) 944-7490
Email: tabusap@ewc.hawaii.edu
The East-West Center is a national and regional source of information
and analysis about the Asia-Pacific Region, including the United States.
Family Health International (FHI)
Margie Shiels
PO Box 13950
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
Phone: (919) 544-7040
FAX: (919) 544-7261
FHI works to improve reproductive health
around the world with an emphasis on developing countries.
Family Health International (FHI)
- Institute for HIV/AIDS
Jill Leanard
2101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201 USA
Phone: (703) 516-9779
Email: jleonard@fhi.org
The Institute's mission is to strengthen
the capacity of resource-constrained countries to prevent HIV/AIDS,
provide care and support, and mitigate the impact of the epidemic.
ICDDR,B:
Centre for Health and Population Research
International Center for Research on
Women (ICRW)
Laurie Calhoun, Senior Information Resources Specialist
1120 20th St., NW, Ste. 500 North
Washington, DC 20036 USA
Phone: (202) 797-0007 ext. 126
Fax: (202) 797-0020
Email: lcalhoun@icrw.org
The International Center for Research on
Women’s library collection includes more than 10,000 books, research reports,
journals and both published and unpublished papers with a focus on women in
development. The collection reflects the past and current program emphases of our
research staff, with particularly strong collections of materials on gender-based
violence and HIV/AIDS prevention, as well as a broad base of materials related to
women’s human rights, reproductive health and economic inequities worldwide.
We are currently undergoing a software upgrade and plan to make our catalog and
our ICRW publications database accessible via the web in early 2004.
IntraHealth International
Corinne Mahoney Farrell
6340 Quadrangle Drive, Suite 200
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
United States
Phone: (919) 313-9100
FAX: (919) 313-9106
Email: intrahealth@intrahealth.org
Working hand-in-hand at the community level with health care providers and organizations, IntraHealth International develops solutions to ensure the successful delivery of health services and to meet future health care challenges. IntraHealth is the implementing agency for the USAID-sponsored PRIME.
Ipas
Julia Cleaver, Information Services Manager
PO Box 5027
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
United States
Phone: 919-960-5636; 800-334-8446
FAX: (919) 929-7687
Email: cleaverj@ipas.org
The
Ipas Resource Center collection reflects the historic and current strategy
of Ipas and supports program development and implementation. It contains
a wealth of information on all aspects of abortion, from service delivery
and training to policy, rights and law. Additional materials on reproductive
health issues range from contraception to HIV/AIDS, with a special emphasis
on adolescents.
The collection consists of nearly 10,000
items, including more than 1,700 books, 7,000 reports and reprints,
and 150 videos. Our extensive collection of journals and newsletters
related to international reproductive health and rights are also available
and are updated on an ongoing basis. More than 1,500 publications from
the library of preeminent reproductive health researcher Dr. Henry David
have recently been added to our collection.
The Ipas Resource Center is located within
the US office of Ipas in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. If you are interested
in learning more, or would like to request a CD-ROM of the catalog database,
please e-mail Julia Cleaver.
Johns
Hopkins University Hopkins Population Center
Population Digital Library
Johns Hopkins University Center
for Communication Programs
John
Snow, Inc. (JSI)
John Carper, Librarian
44 Farnsworth
Street
Boston, MA 02210-1211
United States
Phone: (617) 482-9485
FAX: (617) 482-0617
JSI provides research and consulting in the health care and service
sectors. Projects in health services, information systems, marketing
in the US. International projects in child survival, population management
& logistics, health care financing.
Management Sciences
for Health (MSH)
165 Allandale Road
Boston, MA 02130-4000
United States
Phone: (617) 524-7799
FAX: (617) 524-2825
Email: mshlibrary@msh.org
MSH is a nonprofit organization working
to strengthen health programs worldwide. MSH builds leadership capacity
and management systems to improve service delivery and enhance quality,
accessibility, and sustainability of health care services.
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic
Institute (NIDI)
Jolande Siebenga, Librarian
PO Box 11650
The Hague, 2502 AR
Netherlands
Phone: 070-3565200
FAX: 070-3647187
Email: info@nidi.nl
NIDI is an independent interdisciplinary demographic institute engaged
in the scientific study of population. Research aims to contribute to
the description, analysis, explanation or prediction of demograpic trends
in the past, present and future. NIDI also studies the determinants
and consequences of these trends for society and for policy in particular.
NIDI research is characterized by its interdisciplinary approach and
international orientation.
PATH - Program for
Appropriate Technology in Health
Seattle office
1455 NW Leary
Seattle WA, 98107 USA
Phone: (206) 285-3500
FAX: (206) 285-6619
Email: info@path.org
Washington, DC office
Anwar Singletary, Knowledge Services Librarian
1800 K. St. NW Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006 USA
Phone: (202) 454-5063
FAX: (202) 457-1466
Email: asingletary@path.org
PATH is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental
organization dedicated to improving health, especially the health of
women and children. PATH identifies, develops, and applies appropriate
and innovative solutions to public health problems, particularly in
low-resource settings. To meet the health needs of developing countries,
PATH invents or adapts technologies and provides technical assistance
to improve health products and programs. In keeping with its mission,
PATH is committed to three goals: improving women’s health, improving
children’s health, and preventing communicable diseases. PATH’s headquarters
and a program office are located in Seattle, Washington. Additional
offices are located in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Philippines,
Thailand, Ukraine, Viet Nam, and Washington, D.C.
Penn State Population Research
Institute (PRI)
Library
- OPAC
- Data Archive
Tara E. Murray, Information Core Director
601 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-6211
United States
Phone: (814) 863-7547
FAX: (814) 863-8342
Email: library@pop.psu.edu
The Population Research Institute provides
an organizational setting for interdisciplinary research and training
in demography. It includes more than 60 faculty associates and 65 graduate
students from 13 departments in the social and agricultural sciences
and in health-related fields. The PRI web site includes a directory,
information on workshops, abstracts of current research grants, press
releases, access to the library catalog and data archive, online editions
of PRI publications, and demographic resources (links).
The PRI Library provides a number of unique
materials and services focused on demography to meet the information
needs of PRI affiliates and demography students.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Katharine Dexter McCormick Library
Population Action International
(PAI)
Mary Panke, Librarian
1300 19th Street, NW, Second Floor
Washington, DC 20036
United States
Phone: (202) 557-3400
FAX: (202) 728-4177
Email: mpanke@popact.org
At the heart of Population Action International's mission is its commitment
to advance universal access to family planning and related health services,
and to educational and economic opportunities, especially for girls and
women. Together, these strategies promise to improve the lives of
individual women and their families, while also slowing the world's
population growth and helping preserve the environment. PAI fosters the
development of U.S. and international policy on urgent population and
reproductive health issues through an integrated program of research,
advocacy and communications. PAI seeks to make clear the linkages between
population, reproductive health, the environment and development. Serving
as a bridge between the academic and policymaking communities, PAI shares
its findings through the dissemination of strategic, action-oriented
publications - both in print and through its web page; participation in and
sponsoring of conferences, meetings and seminars; and other efforts to
educate and inform policymakers and the general public. Formerly
Population Crisis Committee.
The Population Council
H. Neil Zimmerman, Librarian
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
New York, NY 10017
United States
Phone: (212) 339-0500
FAX: (212) 755-6052
Email: nzimmerman@popcouncil.org
The Population Council is an international, nonprofit institution that
conducts research on three fronts: biomedical, social science, and public
health. This research—and the information it produces—helps change the
way people think about problems related to reproductive health and population
growth.
Princeton University Office of
Population Research
Ansley J. Coale Population
Research Collection - Donald
E. Stokes Library
Joann Donatiello
Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-2091 USA
Phone: (609) 258-1377
FAX: (609) 258-6844
Email: jdonatie@princeton.edu
The Office of Population Research at Princeton
University is the oldest population research center in the country.
Founded in 1936, it has trained more than a hundred students who received
doctoral degrees and more than a hundred others who received one-year
professional training. Many of these alumni occupy important professional
positions in developing countries; others are on university faculties
in this country and abroad.
Society of Actuaries
(SOA)
Ellen H. Bull, Librarian
475 North Martingale, Suite 800
Schaumburg, IL 60173
United States
Phone: (847) 706-3500
FAX: (847) 706-3599
Email: ebull@soa.org
United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA)
David Rose, Senior Knowledge Sharing Officer
220 East 42nd St., Rm. 2A-625
New York, NY 10017
United States
Phone: (212) 297-5068
FAX: (212) 297-4909
Email: rosed@unfpa.org
University of Michigan Population
Studies Center (PSC)
Library - OPAC
Yan Fu, Librarian
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
United States
Phone: (734) 998-6277
FAX: (734) 998-7415
Email: yanfu@umich.edu
PSC is one of the oldest population centers in the United States, with
a distinguished record in both domestic and international population
research. Established in 1961, the Center has a rich history as the
main work place for an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the
field of population studies. PSC is one of four centers within the Institute
for Social Research.
University of North Carolina - Carolina
Population Center (CPC)
Library
- OPAC
Lori Delaney, Head Librarian
Laurie Leadbetter, Reference Librarian
Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina
University Square East
123 W. Franklin St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997 USA
Phone: (919) 962-3081
FAX: (919) 962-7217
Email: cpclib@unc.edu
The Carolina Population Center is a community of scholars and professionals collaborating on interdisciplinary research and methods that advance understanding of population issues. Based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the center extends its resources to path-breaking work across the US and in more than 50 other countries and makes its findings available to a global audience. A nationally recognized training program educates the next generation of population scholars.
University of Pennsylvania Population
Studies Center (PSC)
Demography
Library - OPAC
Nykia M. Perez, Demography Library
Population Studies Center
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6209
United States
Phone: (215) 898-5375
FAX: (215) 898-2124
Email: nmperez@pop.upenn.edu
The University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center was established
in 1962. The goal of the Population Studies Center is to increase the
quantity and improve the quality of population research conducted at
the University of Pennsylvania. U Penn received its first NICHD P30
grant in 1977. The current P30 supports the following core areas: Administrative,
Computer and Library. Most of the research conducted in the Center draws
on the traditions of a discipline and contributes to its literature.
The major disciplines represented among the Center's researchers include:
Economics, Sociology, Demography, Anthropology, Biology, the Medical
Sciences, Statistics, History, Social Work, Communications, and Insurance.
In addition, the Center is also the site of a substantial amount of
interdisciplinary research. The Center has strength in all major regions
of the globe, with special emphases in Central America, South Asia,
Sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States.
University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE)
CDE Information Services - Collection is cataloged in MadCat
John Carlson, Senior Special Librarian
4412 Social Science Bldg
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
United States
Phone: 608-262-4879
FAX: 608-262-8400
Email: jcarlson@ssc.wisc.edu
CDE is a multi-disciplinary faculty research
cooperative for social scientific demographic research whose membership
includes sociologists, rural sociologists, economists, epidemiologists,
and statisticians. CDE is one of the leading centers of social science
research in the world, as indicated by the scholarly productivity of
its faculty, the level of extramural funding secured by researchers,
the production and distribution of high quality demographic data, and
the quality of its graduate training program.
The Urban Institute
Nancy Minter, Director Library and Information Services
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
United States
Phone: (202) 261-5534
FAX: (202) 223-3043
Email: nminter@ui.urban.org
The Urban Institute is a non-profit, nonpartisan policy
research and educational organization established in Washington, DC in 1968.
It examines the social, economic, and governance challenges facing the
nation. Originally focused on urban challenges, the Institute's research
agenda now encompasses most national issues as well as local governance and
social sector reform issues in emerging democracies, developing countries,
Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Institute researchers
identify, measure, and assess social, economic, and demographic trends. They
also evaluate government programs and policies and initiatives of the
nonprofit sector. They help frame public and private sector strategies to
meet national challenges, and study the effects of pending legislation and
policy proposals. A multidisciplinary staff of about 400 works in nine
policy centers and in large cross-center projects.
The UI Library holds approximately 45,000 books and reports, 650
periodical titles, 6,000 reels of microfilm. We are charter subscribers to
JSTOR's Arts & Sciences I & II collections. Additionally, we subscribe to
ProQuest's Social Science Full-Image Workstation; Lexis/Nexis; Dialog;
EbscoHost Sociological and Psychological Collections; SSCI Index &
Abstracts; and others. OCLC member (DUR).