Mourning the loss of sociologist Devah Pager
We are very saddened at the Harvard Pop Center to learn of the passing of Harvard sociologist Devah Pager. The Harvard Gazette pays tribute to this academic ‘force of nature’ who passed away last Friday.
Archive: 2018
Sudharsanan and Bloom share insights into demography of aging in LMICs in new guidebook
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has produced a guide (based on papers that were presented at a public workshop in 2017) to demography of aging research trends and future directions. Harvard Bell Fellow Nikkil Sudharsanan,…
Is childhood weight linked to early exposure to antibiotics?
A study in Pediatrics contributes to the evidence that links early exposure to antibiotics with higher body weight in five-year old children. Lead author of the study is Jason Block, MD, a Harvard Pop Center faculty member and former Harvard RWJF Health…
Does exposure to trauma explain lower rates of psychopathology among racial, ethnic minorities in the United States?
David R. Williams, a Harvard Pop Center faculty member, collaborated with a Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar program alumna and current Harvard faculty member Katie McLaughlin and colleagues in this study to shed light on whether exposure…
Harvard Pop Center awarded grant by NIA to further research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among older adults in rural South Africa
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) a five-year grant to further its research on a rapidly growing, under-studied, at-risk population—older adults in rural South Africa—…
A look at alcohol use among youth taking alcohol-interactive medications
Elissa Weitzman, ScD, Harvard Pop Center faculty member and associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, is an author on a study that found that youth with chronic medical conditions who take medications that can interact negatively…
What may help you get enough fruit and vegetables into your regular diet?
Laura Kubzansky, PhD, is an author on a study that indicates that higher levels of psychological well-being are associated with maintaining higher levels of health-promoting fruit and vegetable consumption.
A 21st-century-approach to qualitative data analysis
Mary Waters has co-authored a research article in Sociological Methods & Research that challenges the status-quo method (grounded theory framework) for qualitative coding procedures. The researchers suggest a way to better leverage today’s…
How does the interaction of multiple life events, plus our age, affect our health?
Recent Bell Fellow Juli Simon Thomas, PhD, has published a study in the Longitudinal and Life Course Studies: International Journal. She finds that the negative health impacts of such disruptive events as divorce and job loss are worsened when they…
New HCPDS Working Paper: Estimates of child malnutrition indicators for 543 Parliamentary Constituencies in India
Rockli Kim, SD, Yun Xu, MA, William Joe, PhD, and S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, have authored a novel working paper that presents robust estimates on five indicators of child malnutrition for each Parliamentary Constituency (PC) in India in 2016.