Archive: Jul 2018

Are you interested in researching how the long-run effects of early-childhood circumstances and education affect income and health state transitions in older ages? Learn more about this opportunity to join our team…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Alexandra Killewald, PhD, and Graduate Student Affiliate Brielle Bryan have authored a paper published in Social Forces that applies a life-course perspective to wealth accumulation, examining both the inherited…

Harvard Pop Center postdoctoral research fellow Lyndsey Rolheiser, PhD, along with faculty member S V Subramanian, PhD, and a colleague have published a study in the American Journal of Public Health that has found higher opioid prescription rate…

A study by HAALSI researchers explores whether the connection between chronic illness and depression that is commonly found in high-income settings exists in sub-Saharan Africa as well.

Harvard Pop Center faculty member S. Bryn Austin, PhD, and Graduate Student Affiliate Brielle Bryan have authored a study that indicates that sexual minority women (lesbian and bisexual) physiologically experience more stress based on disparities in…

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member Meredith Rowe, EdD on being awarded this cross-sector fellowship which is given to professionals who are sparking new ideas and fostering breakthrough approaches for communicating the insights of early…

Social determinants of health (complex contextual factors) are considered to have a profound impact on our health, yet are not part of our health care system. Harvard Pop Center faculty member Hossein Estiri, PhD, is an author of a Perspective published…

Findings of a research study show that even though residents of black and Hispanic neighborhoods traveled outside of their home neighborhoods, they were far less exposed to nonpoor or white middle-class neighborhoods than residents of primarily white…

A study based on a survey experiment co-authored by Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholars program alum Rourke L. O’Brien, PhD, shows women and black job applicants to be negatively impacted by a bad credit report.

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, is an author on the paper published in Health Affairs that has received media attention.