Archive: Aug 2018

Faculty member David Bloom and colleagues outline the efforts that would be required to implement universal health care on a global scale, as well as the potential benefits that could be realized in this issue of Science.

A study by Harvard Pop Center director Lisa Berkman, faculty members Ichiro Kawachi and Mauricio Avendano, and colleagues has revealed that both white and black students who attended majority-white schools were at higher risk of lifetime, non-medical use…

Not necessarily, finds a study published in PLoS ONE by a team of researchers affiliated with Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI). Older men who were circumcised in a hospital…

Sara Bleich, PhD, professor of public health policy at the Harvard Chan School, has penned an op-ed in The New England Journal of Medicine that makes a strong case for an approach that is multi-prong, spanning health systems, population, individual,…

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member Margaret McConnell on her promotion to associate professor of global health economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A former PGDA…

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member and Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology Mary C. Brinton, PhD, who has been named the director of the Harvard institute that supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic…

In a special issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine, 26 social scientists comment on the usefulness of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) when it comes to evaluating health interventions. This interdisciplinary discussion—inspired by an…