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Akinrinola Bankole

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Akinrinola Bankole joined the Guttmacher Institute in 1997, and served as the Institute’s Director of International Research from 2006 to 2017. He now serves as a Senior Fellow. As Director, Dr. Bankole coordinated and supervised the Institute’s international research portfolio. His primary areas of research interest and expertise include fertility preferences and behavior, contraception and unmet need, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, abortion, HIV and other STIs, and gender roles and differentials. He has extensive experience in both country-level and comparative cross-country analyses of sexual and reproductive health issues in developing countries. Prior to coming to the Institute, he was a member of the research staff at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research, where his work included multicountry studies of unmet need for contraception, fertility preferences and behavior, and contraceptive use. He has also served as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Bankole is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Population Association of America and the Union of African Population Studies.

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Selected Publications

  1. junio 2020 Research Article

    The Health System Costs of Postabortion Care in Senegal

    Naomi Lince-Deroche, Ibrahima Sene, Emma Pliskin, Onikepe Owolabi and Akinrinola Bankole International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  2. August 2018 Research Article

    The Severity and Management of Complications Among Postabortion Patients Treated in Kinshasa Health Facilities

    Akinrinola Bankole, Patrick Kayembe, Sophia Chae, Onikepe O. Owolabi, Jesse Philbin and Crispin Mabika International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  3. diciembre 2016 Research Article

    Changes in Morbidity and Abortion Care in Ethiopia After Legal Reform: National Results from 2008 and 2014

    Yirgu Gebrehiwot, Tamara Fetters, Hailemichael Gebreselassie, Ann M. Moore, Mengistu Hailemariam, Yohannes Dibaba, Akinrinola Bankole and Yonas Getachew International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  4. noviembre 2016 Research Article

    The Estimated Incidence of Induced Abortion in Ethiopia, 2014: Changes in the Provision of Services Since 2008

    Ann M. Moore, Yirgu Gebrehiwot, Tamara Fetters, Yohannes Dibaba Wado, Akinrinola Bankole, Susheela Singh, Hailemichael Gebreselassie and Yonas Getachew International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  5. junio 2010 Report

    Barreras para la Maternidad Segura en México

    Fatima Juárez, José Luis Palma, Susheela Singh and Akinrinola Bankole
  6. enero 2010 Report

    Las Necesidades de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva de las Adolescentes en México: Retos y Oportunidades

    Fatima Juárez, José Luis Palma, Susheela Singh and Akinrinola Bankole
  7. mayo 2008 Report

    Asegurar un mañana más saludable en Centroamérica: Proteger la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud de hoy

    Luis Rosero Bixby, Elena Prada, Susheela Singh and Akinrinola Bankole
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