Archive: 2018

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…

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.