Archive: 2018

Lisa Berkman welcomes the audience Dean Michelle Williams delivers introductory remarks Sir Angus Deaton speaks about rise in ‘deaths of despair’ Crowd of Harvard affiliates absorb sobering statistics about effects of education gap …

Mauricio Avendano is an author on a paper that shows that while there was no association between a mother’s unemployment and the purchases of pscyhotropic medication by her offspring, there was a significant increase in these purchases among…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Mary C. Waters has been named the PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her excellence in leadership, teaching, and scholarly achievement. The prestigious, five-year term professorship is one of four…

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman has authored a study published in European Journal of Public Health that finds that while RCTs can pose challenges for both social and biomedical interventions alike, they still can serve as a helpful way to…

Harvard Pop Center Research Analyst Neha Bairoliya, PhD, is co-author of a study published in PLOS Medicine that finds that many of the over 7,000 full-term infant deaths a year in the U.S. could be prevented. Learn more in this Reuters piece.

Faculty member Ashish, Jha, MD, is author and lead researcher on a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that takes a “careful and more comprehensive” look at the U.S. healthcare system. Learn about the…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Joel Salinas, MD, will be a featured speaker at an upcoming TEDxCambridge event on Thursday, May 3, 2018, from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Boston Opera House.

Harvard Pop Center Associate Director Jason Beckfield is an author on a paper published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior that finds that policies aimed at protecting minorities from discrimination across European countries correlate with…

Mary Waters‘ research (RISK project) on the long-term consequences of a disaster on the lives of survivors is featured in this piece in  Science Magazine.

Renowned scholars Professor Sir Angus Deaton and Professor Sir Michael Marmot will be featured speakers at our upcoming special colloquium Nations at Risk: The Changing Distributions of Population Health on Friday, April 13, 2018, from 2–5 p.m.…