The Bixby Center is dedicated to helping achieve slower population growth within a human rights framework by addressing the unmet need for family planning. It seeks to improve the health outcomes of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women and their families. Worldwide there is an unacceptably high unmet need for family planning due to a wide range of barriers that prevent women from accessing contraception. The Bixby Center is part of the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.