Archive: Jun 2018

Harvard Pop Center faculty members S V Subramanian, PhD, and Kenneth Mayer, MD, are among the authors on a study published in PLOS One that explores the impact of prison release on HIV incidence in parts of the U.S. that have the highest rates of…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Chunling Lu, PhD, is co-author on a study that has found that poverty status is not the only significant contributing factor to the inequalities in medical care utilization and household catastrophic spending that exist…

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member Lawrence Bobo, PhD, who has been named a Harvard College Professor, a five-year appointment that offers extra support for research or scholarly activities. Learn more in The Harvard Gazette.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in India. A study in PLOS Medicine (with Harvard Pop Center fellow Jennifer Manne-Goehler, MD, ScD, and faculty member Till Bärnighausen, MD, PhD, ScD, among the authors) identified…

Michelle A. Williams, Harvard Pop Center faculty member and dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is an author on a study published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth that takes a rare look at the obstetric and neonatal outcomes for…

Faculty members Alex Tsai and David R. Williams are among the authors on a study in The Lancet that utilizes novel data on police killings of black Americans to reveal the spillover effects on those living in the same state. Learn more in The New York…

An NBER working paper by faculty member Nicole Maestas, PhD, that illustrates how the financial returns for working later in life may be greater for women than for men is catching attention in the media. 

A study by three faculty members—S. Bryn Austin, S V Subramanian, and Ichiro Kawachi—and their colleague found that Koreans who merely perceived themselves to be overweight or obese faced increased cardiometabolic risks, such as high blood pressure…

A Harvard Pop Center working paper by faculty member Mauricio Avendano and his colleagues reveals that increasing the age at which women working in routine-manual occupations in the UK received pension benefits negatively impacted their health, and…

According to a working paper authored by recent Harvard Bell Fellow Onur Altindag and his colleagues, the Syrians refugees that flowed into Turkey had a positive impact on its informal economy, particularly on smaller firms and those in the construction…