Archive: Nov 2014

Harvard RWJF alumna Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, and former Bell Fellow Mauricio Avendano Pabon, PhD, are co-authors on a paper published in Social Forces that explores the fact that female life expectancy is shorter in the US than in most other…

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Steven Gortmaker, PhD, is co-author on a study published in Preventing Chronic Disease that identifies the source of children’s consumption of junk food in Boston’s after-school programs in…

Harvard Pop Center affiliated researchers Kathleen Kahn, PhD, and Stephen Tollman, PhD, and colleagues have published a study in Global Health Action that evaluates the HIV mortality rates on a rural South African community from 2007-2010, when…

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Karen L. Kramer, PhD, has co-authored a study that looks at birth and breastfeeding dynamics in an indigenous Maya community.

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Gita Sen, PhD, was interviewed by Bangladesh’s first Internet newspaper, bdnews24.com, on the importance of a strong public health system to adopt universal health coverage (UHC) to protect people from…

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member David Bloom, PhD,  and and PGDA Fellow Mark McGovern, PhD, are co-authors on a study published in The Journal of the Economics of Ageing that estimates the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable…

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Wafaie Fawzi is co-author on a study published in the Journal of Nutrition that examines the status of Vitamin D measured in the blood of HIV-infected and HIV-exposed Tanzanian infants in a malaria-endemic…

Harvard Yerby Fellow Mariana Arcaya, ScD, is the focus of this HSPH The Big 3 news feature which asks the lead author of a recent article relating to Hurricane Katrina survivors three key questions about her research.

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Subu Subramanian, PhD, spoke in New Delhi at a conference on stunting sponsored by UNICEF South Asia. Subramanian’s appearance at the conference was featured in a HSPH news brief, a New York Times article, …

Harvard RWJF Health & Society Alumna Christina Roberto, PhD, was recently awarded The Obesity Society’s (TOS) 2014 Early-Career Research Grant. Currently an Assistant Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Nutrition at the Harvard…