Archive: Apr 2018

Researchers affiliated with the HAALSI research project have published a new study that found that older women in South Africa have weaker social network connections and are more socially isolated than men and younger women. Higher levels of widowhood…

Lisa Berkman welcomes the audience Dean Michelle Williams delivers introductory remarks Sir Angus Deaton speaks about rise in ‘deaths of despair’ Crowd of Harvard affiliates absorb sobering statistics about effects of education gap …

Mauricio Avendano is an author on a paper that shows that while there was no association between a mother’s unemployment and the purchases of pscyhotropic medication by her offspring, there was a significant increase in these purchases among…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Mary C. Waters has been named the PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her excellence in leadership, teaching, and scholarly achievement. The prestigious, five-year term professorship is one of four…