Archive: Apr 2015

Harvard Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars program alumnae Kate McLaughlin, PhD, and Margaret Sheridan, PhD, have published a study that shows a link between early caregiving environments and how children’s stress response systems…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member and principal investigator of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) David E. Bloom, PhD, was named one of 32 inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellows. This newly established fellowship supports scholarly work in…

Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Molly Rosenberg, PhD, is lead author of a study published in journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases that examines whether living in communities with more alcohol outlets is associated with increased prevalence of Herpes…

Harvard Pop Center Spiegelman Fellow Germana Leyna, MD, has co-authored an article published in BioMed Central that examines virologic and immunologic responses, drug resistance and mortality at 24 months postpartum in women in Tanzania who started…

Harvard Pop Center faculty members Gunther Fink, PhD, and Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, are co-authors on a paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology that reveals a positive association between the supply of pediatricians in Japan with vaccination…

The work of Harvard Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar alumna Duana Fullwiley, PhD, on ancestry informative markers (AIMs) is referenced in this article in The Atlantic on causes of racial-health disparities.

Harvard Pop Center’s Executive Committee Member Rohini Pande, PhD, has co-authored a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research that explores the role that India’s culture of eldest son preference may play in…

Harvard Pop Center’s faculty member Theresa Betancourt, ScD, is  featured in this Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s The Big Three news story.

Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Fahad Razak, MD, and Pop Center Executive Committee Member S V Subramanian, PhD, have co-authored a study published in the Journal of Public Health that clusters the obese into subgroups, such as heavy drinking males, and…

Lisa Berkman, PhD, the director of the Harvard Pop Center, will be a panel member at a congressional briefing entitled “The Vow Factor: Marriage, Divorce and Family Formation and their Impact on Health and Well-Being” at the U.S. Capital…