2018 – Page 11 – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Exposure to air pollution in utero linked to child stunting in Bangladesh

January 03, 2018

Harvard Pop Center faculty member David Canning is co-author of a study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health that reveals that children who were exposed to fine particulate ambient air pollution in utero in…

Measuring frailty—a key predictor of mortality and morbidity in higher income countries—in the now aging South African population

January 03, 2018

A team of researchers affiliated with HAALSI, a project focused on the aging population in South Africa, has published a study in BMC Geriatrics that finds frailty to be associated with worse health and well being, and earlier death in an…

A blueprint for deciphering and assessing evidence-based health policy

January 02, 2018

An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by Amitahb Chandra has received attention in the news.

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Exposure to air pollution in utero linked to child stunting in Bangladesh

Measuring frailty—a key predictor of mortality and morbidity in higher income countries—in the now aging South African population

A blueprint for deciphering and assessing evidence-based health policy