We invite you to attend a virtual event with us!
Join us for webinars, presentations, film screenings, and training courses held throughout the year! Virtual events are an easy and accessible way for you to learn more about population issues, connect with Population Connection staff, and meet others interested in working together for a more sustainable future for our planet.
Please contact us at engage@popconnect.org if you have any additional thoughts or feedback for future events—we love hearing from you!
UN Commission on Population and Development
Demographic and Contraceptive Research, Technology, and Education to Support Sustainable Population Dynamics
We’re hosting an official side event for the UN Commission on Population and Development, fifty-nineth session. This year’s theme is “Population, technology and research in the context of sustainable development.”
Demographic, health, and geospatial environmental research has stalled due to devastating funding cuts. As a result, there is a deficit of current, high-quality data, thwarting efforts to address pressing sustainable development challenges, all of which are exacerbated by population growth.
Filling knowledge gaps among policymakers and journalists is crucial to building support for funding demographic and contraceptive research and technological developments. Education on demographic data, trends, and dynamics, and on barriers to contraceptive use, is imperative to achieve progress on these issues, which are intimately intertwined with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Author, former journalist, and current Population Connection board member Robert Engelman will explore this topic during an interactive discussion.
Date: Tuesday, April 14th
Time: 1:00pm ET/10:00am PT
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Earth Day Presentation with John Seager
The Good Crisis: How Population Stabilization Can Foster a Healthy U.S. Economy
It’s been 10 years since our co-publication, The Good Crisis: How Population Stabilization Can Foster a Healthy U.S. Economy. A decade later, we’re still making the same argument: lower fertility rates are good for the health and well-being of people and the planet.
Join Population Connection President and CEO, John Seager, as he unpacks how the demographic changes now underway represent an extraordinary opportunity for us to focus on creating a greater, rather than larger, society. Lower fertility rates can help solve some of our most intractable problems, avert some of the worst climate catastrophes, and create opportunities for those who are often left out of our economy.
During the event, John will unpack the challenge of The Good Crisis—keeping our aging population healthy, productive, and prepared for today’s technologically-focused jobs. At the same time, today’s youth must be prepared for productive futures through education, skills training, and delayed parenthood enabled by improved family planning services.
Contact the Membership Relations Team at engage@popconnect.org to request a hard copy of The Good Crisis, while supplies last!
Date: Wednesday, April 22nd
Time: 3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT
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Book Club Discussion
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr
Humans are one of the most extreme examples of life transforming Earth. Through fossil fuel consumption, agriculture, and pollution, we have altered more layers of the planet in less time than any other species, pushing Earth into a crisis. But we are also uniquely able to understand and protect the planet’s wondrous ecology and self-stabilizing processes. Jabr introduces us to a diverse cast of fascinating people who have devoted themselves to this vital work.
Date: Wednesday, May 13th
Time: 4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT
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*We don’t record book club meetings, so tune in live, if you can, to catch the discussions!
In Case You Missed It...
2026 Events
All year long we host virtual events to keep supporters informed and engaged with our mission! Events include guest speakers, an annual photo contest, and presentations from Global Partners. Catch up on our latest virtual events by exploring our 2026 archive.
More Details Here2025 Events
We hosted a variety of virtual events including guest speakers, a photo contest, Site Visit recaps with our Global Partners, and book club meetings. Our events have fostered a vibrant community dialogue on population trends, reproductive rights, and sustainable development.
More Details Here2024 Events
We hosted inspiring presentations with Global Partners, unpacked population projections with demography experts, held engaging discussions at our book club, and learned more about PopConnect programs through staff presentations!
More Details HereEvent Archive
2023 Events
We hosted a variety of events including guest speakers, a photo contest, Global Partners presentations, and book club meetings.
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Global Partner Series
Since 2013, we’ve made grants or donations to small-to-medium sized organizations working on the ground in their communities to remove barriers to girls’ education, increase access to public health and family planning services, and conserve wildlife. We were able to expand this program substantially in 2022 and are excited to share the work of these incredible organizations with you!
Global Partner SeriesWorld Population Day
We marked World Population Day with a panel event featuring our communications team. During their event, Low Birth Rates: Good for the Planet, Good for People, they discussed outlined the many environmental benefits of slower population growth and identified potential accommodations to the economic challenges presented by population aging.
World Population Day 2023
2022 Events
We’ve had a full year of virtual events, hosting experts in the fields of conservation, population issues, sustainable development, and women’s empowerment.
Featured Events:
8 Billion Mini Series
Leading up to the 8 billion milestone, we hosted a number of events where we discussed how our growing population hampers progress toward environmental preservation, climate change efforts, and poverty alleviation. We heard from community organizers in Uganda, youth activists in Nepal, and PopConnect staff based across the country.
8 Billion Mini SeriesDemography Series
This spring we hosted our virtual demography series! Hannah Evans, our Senior Analyst, hosted educational sessions once a month from March to June that explored the various ways in which human population trends and dynamics affect global sustainable development and environmental change.
Demography Series
2021 Events
For the past year, we’ve successfully conducted a series of virtual events, featuring renowned professionals specializing in conservation, sustainable development, demography, and reproductive rights.
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Book Club Meetings
In 2021 we started our “Page Turners” Book Club, excited to have a new way to connect with our members and supporters on the latest publications that discuss population dynamics, sustainable development, and environmental issues. Every two months, we hosted one-hour discussions on books chosen by our audience. Publications include The New Climate War by Michael E. Mann and The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert.
Page Turners Book ClubEarth Day Passport Series
We celebrated this year’s Earth Day all month long, hosting speakers from organizations around the world to discuss family planning services and reproductive rights in their communities. We wrapped up presentations with an on-demand screening of the new documentary, 2040, followed by a discussion of the film on Earth Day!
2021 Earth Day
2020 Events
Over the past year, we’ve assembled a lineup of virtual events showcasing experts in reproductive rights, conservation, and population dynamics.
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2020 Population + Climate Change Course
An introduction to population studies, this month-long course is particularly useful for anyone interested in volunteering with Population Connection in the future. The weekly sessions take a deeper look at how population dynamics relate to global issues such as poverty, sustainable development, access to health care, climate change, and the health of our planet.
Population and Climate Change Course2020 Earth Day Challenge
Leading up to the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we held a virtual Earth Day challenge consisting of daily actions individuals could partake in to reduce their environmental impact. Two of the challenges included tuning in to presentations hosted by our President John Segar and Communications Manager Hannah Evans.
2020 Earth Day