Archive: 2017

Henry Timms, executive director of the 92nd Street Y and creator of Giving Tuesday, references research by Ichiro Kawachi on the importance of social connections after a disaster in this piece in Time on how Giving Tuesday got started.

A study just out by a team of HAALSI researchers finds that in South Africa cardiovascular disease risk is not being managed as well for women, those of lower socioeconomic status, and for those with physical disabilities.

The new book on social networks, Someone to Talk To, by faculty member Mario L. Small is out and receiving much attention in the media. Congrats, Mario!

A study by Collin Payne, PhD, a recent Bell Fellow and current research associate at the Harvard Pop Center, focuses on the under-explored patterns that link cognition, health and well-being in a low-income population.

A study by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Sara Bleich, PhD, published in the journal Obesity finds that while the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages is on the decline among both children and adults, it is still too high among adolescents and…

A review of 21 studies in Africa, the Americas and South-East Asia finds that although unconditional cash transfers may not have a large impact on the use of health services by children and adults in LMICs, they appear to have a positive impact on some…

Gary King, Harvard Pop Center faculty member, is lead author on a ground-breaking study published in Science that is the result of over five years of work. Learn more about the results of this randomized experiment in The Boston Globe and the Harvard…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member S V Subramanian, PhD, has co-authored an editorial in the Hindustan Times that calls for India to rise to the challenge of addressing the nutritional, health care, and educational needs of the 48 million children living…

Part of the answer may depend on where you live (industrial vs. agricultural economy). The findings of recent work by Harvard Pop Center faculty member and health economist David Cutler and his colleagues is cited in this New York Times article. He also…

Ichiro Kawachi, MD, shares his thoughts on how “gamification” (applying elements of game playing to other activities) can be used to motivate health-related behavior change in this invited commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine.