PSN is supporting a community based project that provides health care and family planning services, which is linked to a marine conservation initiative. It is hoped that there will be opportunities to replicate this endeavour elsewhere.

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PSN delivered a key note address outlining the importance of population and sustainability issues as a key element in achieving sustainability to a mixed corporate audience. PSN is currently exploring the linkage between population growth generally and business performance.

Two members of PSN’s steering group both gave Keynotes to an impressive gathering of medical students in Dundee in October 2007. Medsin is the name of a Global Health: Local Issue network for medical students, and the conference was called “Population and Health”. It attracted a number of high profile speakers, and was an exciting and stimulating event.

Susannah Mayhew spoke about Population and Rights in the opening session, and Catherine Budgett-Meakin spoke in the final session on Population Growth and the Millennium Development Goals, particularly focusing on the findings presented in the APPG Report: The Return of the Population Factor.
 

The Report of the Parliamentary Hearings organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health was launched on 2007.

PSN is working to promote the findings of this report and seeking to replicate the Hearings process in other parliaments and national executives.

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PSN/LSHTM Forum

Gareth Thomas MP, Permanent Under Secretary of State for International Development, Dr Nafis Sadik, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Professor Chris Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey were the key note speakers to a packed event.

A series of public Population Forums in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, started in September 2006 - running in parallel with the parliamentary Hearings. For information about the Population Forums click here

PSN promotes major discussion topic "The Myth of Age Dependency": Why the Developed World should be comfortable with an ageing population.

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Climate change and population Growth

PSN proposes initiative for a major new study to establish and meaure the extent of the linkages between these issues.

A project proposal has been drafted and circulated to a number of prospective participants. Emphasis will be placed on identifying practical solutions that do not compromise the right of developing countries to achieve rapid economic growth. Further information will be provided shortly.

For enquiries, please contact Toby Aykroyd on 020 7792 9776

Research projects to: 1) map out gaps in current research on population matters; 2) undertake research within these gaps; 3) feed the research into appropriate organisations and processes to influence national and international policy at government and NGO level.

A Student/Youth Forum to engage new advocates for the case

Sustainability Steps is our youth arm, which aims to develop a model for introducing sustainable consumption issues in young people's lives.

PSN served on the Steering Group and submitted both written and oral evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health Parliamentary Hearings.

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