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Archive: 2019
Increasing mother's education beyond compulsory 9 years decreases child malnutrition in conflict-ridden Nigeria
Harvard Bell Fellow Adel Daoud, PhD, is an author on a study that has leveraged a machine-learning approach—Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART)—that confirms and refines earlier findings that maternal education decreases severe child…
Viewing child malnutrition in India by parliamentary constituency hones in on burden
A study by Harvard Pop Center research associate Rockli Kim, ScD, and faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and colleagues, that applies two newly developed geographic information systems methodologies to analyze the 543 parliamentary…
Longer compulsory education not necessarily better for cognitive & mental health outcomes; a natural experiment finds differences between genders
A new study published in the BMJ Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health examined the long-term health impacts of a policy enacted in France that extended compulsory education by two years. Lead author Emilie Courtin, PhD, a current Harvard Bell…
New findings on aging in a newer population in South Africa
Three studies by researchers affiliated with Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) have been published this month shedding light on the status of cognitive function, the level of daily living limitations and…
Marcia Castro and David Williams named as new department chairs
Congratulations to faculty members Marcia Castro and David Williams on being named as chairs of the Department of Global Health and Population, and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, respectively. Learn more in this release by the Harvard…
Can being optimistic help women live both a healthier and longer life?
Previous research has linked an optimistic attitude with a longer life, but now a new study authored by a team that includes our faculty member Laura Kubzansky expands the positive benefits of optimism to include a healthier life as well.