Archive: 2019

Jason Beckfield, our associate director and Harvard sociologist, COMMENTS on a study that documents intergenerational social mobility over the past 165 years, applauding the study’s strengths (e.g., differentiating between relative and absolute…

HCPDS is pleased to announce that the 2019 Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize has been awarded to Keona J. Wynne, a first-year doctoral student in the Population Health Sciences PhD program at Harvard University. The $5,000 prize is…

The following faculty members have been named to Clarivate Analytic’s Web of Science annual list of Highly Cited Researchers—those who rank in the top 1% of citations in a particular field or across multiple fields*: Till Bärnighausen* Miguel…

Harvard Pop Center faculty members Tracy Richmond, Mauricio Avendano, and Ichiro Kawachi, along with their colleague Inyang A. Isong, have published a study that takes a longitudinal look at the weight and growth status of kindergarten-aged children from…

Researchers affiliated with the Resilience in Survivors of Hurricane Katrina (RISK) project have published a paper that takes a look at the health impacts of being displaced into a gentrified neighborhood. The researchers did not find evidence of…

Harvard Bell Fellow Adel Daoud, PhD, and his colleague Shailen Nandy have authored a study published in Sociology of Development that sets out to systematically analyze how politics of caste, corruption, and wealth impact child poverty in India.

Elissa Weitzman, ScD, is principal investigator of a study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that demonstrates how personally generated data — captured and tracked using such online tools as Google searches and social media…

Postdoctoral Fellow Christina Cross, PhD, shares findings in this op-ed in The New York Times  from a recent study that demonstrate that access to socioeconomic resources influences the educational success of black youth more than their family…

Researchers affiliated with Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) have published a study in BMC Public Health that shares some baseline evidence pointing to a link between cognitive function and…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Sara Bleich and her colleagues have published two studies examining experiences of racial discrimination in the United States. One study found substantial black-white disparities in experiences of discrimination in…