Population in Africa:
Translating Research into Policy

Presenter
Jotham Musinguzi
Partners in Population and Development, Uganda

Eliya Zulu
African Institute for Development Policy, Kenya

Chair
Peter Berman
Lead Economist, Health, HDNHE

Discussant
Anton Dobronogov
Senior Economist, Africa Region, AFTP2

Nations with rapid population growth face additional hurdles in achieving the MDGs. Countries in the African Sahel are particularly vulnerable as they are burdened with rapid population growth and the impact of global warming on an already fragile ecology; Niger’s population, for example, is projected to grow from 15 million people today to over 50 million by 2050, and already one third of its children are malnourished.

Tuesday
December 7, 2010
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Room J4-044
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Dr. Eliya Zulu and Dr. Jotham Musinguzi, two pioneers on the front line of policy development and conducting high level policy dialogue in Africa, are working to create awareness on the importance of timing in addressing population factor and to get the population factor back onto national agendas. Dr. Zulu will discuss how he is translating research into policy. Dr. Musinguzi will discuss how south-south cooperation can strengthen the policy responses. Their focus is on Africa, but their conclusions are relevant to any country with a rapidly growing population such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. Please join these two pioneers in exploring solutions to the population issues facing their continent.

About the Speakers

Jotham Musinguzi is the Regional Director of the Partners in Population and Development (PPD) Africa Regional Office in Kampala, Uganda. An obstetrician and Public Health Physician by training, he served as the Director of Uganda’s Population Secretariat. He is currently a Trustee of both the Population Council and the Commonwealth Medical Association Trust. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Population Services International (PSI) Uganda and is a Board Member of the Africa Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) based in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Musinguzi was a senior lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of Makerere University and has served as President of Uganda Medical Association; Chairman of International Council on Management of Population Programmes (ICOMP).

Eliya M. Zulu is one of Africa’s premier demographers. He founded the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), the only organization on the African continent dedicated to translating academic research into useful information for policy makers. He is currently the Deputy Director and Director of Research at Africa Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), a premier research center that conducts high quality and policy research on population and health issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. He has a worked as a Lecturer at the Demographic Unit of the University of Malawi.

Peter Berman is Lead Health Economist in the HNP Anchor Department, focusing on Health Systems. He is the Practice Leader for the Bank's Health Systems Global Expert Team. From 2004-2008 he was Lead Economist for HNP in the New Delhi office. Prior to joining the Bank, he was Professor of Population and International Health Economics at Harvard School of Public Health, where he directed the International Health Systems Program.

Anton Dobronogov is a Senior Economist at the Africa PREM department. In his previous assignment at the Bank he served as a country economist for Iran, a country which experienced a very rapid transition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility. Mr. Dobronogov holds MPA in International Development from Harvard University and a doctorate in Systems Analysis from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.