Archive: 2020

Postdoc Fellow Christina Cross, PhD, is this  year’s recipient of the PAA Dorothy S. Thomas award for best demography paper by a doctoral student. Christina is the first African American recipient in the 40-year history of this award. Tune in…

There are dozens of sessions taking place today, and here are some that highlight affiliates and some close colleagues of the Harvard Pop Center community. 8:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Mental Health Giacomo Pasini will be presenting a paper…

A Harvard Pop Center working paper by Jarvis Chen and Nancy Krieger provides critical public health monitoring data—missing until now—on the unequal economic and social burden of COVID-19 in the United States. The Harvard Center for Population and…

The 2020 PAA annual meeting has gone virtual. Today, there are two live sessions (both from 1:00–2:30 EST) that include Harvard Pop Center faculty member Alexandra Killewald (FLASH: Determinants of the Gender Pay Gap) and several speakers formerly…

Three researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center—Mariana Arcaya, Ethan J. Raker, and Mary C. Waters—have published a review in the Annual Review of Sociology that concludes with their concerns about the likelihood of more severe natural disasters…

Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle A. Williams, ScD, has co-authored a Perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine that calls for more longitudinal studies in aging populations to better understand the “mechanics of immunity” in this…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and visiting scientist Rockli Kim, ScD, are among the authors of a study published in the JAMA Open Network that could help to identify high-risk pregnancies and potentially reduce the…

The Chicago Sun Times reports on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation teleconference with Professor David Williams, PhD, during which he explained how the coronavirus is bringing to light the health disparities that “reflect longstanding policies that…

Nancy Krieger shares her perspective as a social epidemiologist in this Q&A in The New Yorker on everything from the difference between inequities in health status vs. inequalities in health care (and what happens when they collide) to the eco-social…

In today’s Boston Globe, David Bloom and David Canning, both Harvard Pop Center faculty members, call for conducting COVID-19 tests on a representative sample of the population, leveraging already collected data from the US Census Bureau’s…