Archive: 2020

A number of recent Harvard Pop Center Working Papers (all of which address the COVID-19 pandemic) have been published in journals (see below). For a complete list, please visit the Harvard Pop Center Working Papers page. Volume 19, #1 has been…

Harvard Yerby Fellow Adedotun Ogunbajo, PhD, has recently published two papers that contribute to the body of work focused on sexual and mental health outcomes among racial and sexual minority communities. One paper published in the journal Global Public…

Harvard Pop Center Research Assistant Enryka Christopher, MS, is an author on a published paper that explores how social media and social interactions influence smoking behavior in college students in Bangladesh.

The Resilience in Survivors of Katrina Study (RISK) study has followed a cohort of low-income parents from a year before (baseline) exposure to Hurricane Katrina, and then 1, 4 and 12 years post disaster in order to learn more about the short- and…

Despite higher levels of exposure to common chronic stressors across five life domains (health, financial, residential, relationship, and caregiving), Black study participants were found to suffer less from symptoms of anxiety and depression than white…

Having access to COVID-19 data for U.S. congressional districts can substantially enhance the ability of elected officials and their constituents to develop and monitor testing and vaccine deployment strategies, as well as to implement other measures to…

A Harvard Pop Center Working Paper (now published in PLOS Medicine) is referenced in a piece in The New York Times that explores the potential years of life lost in the United States due to COVID-19. Photos (left): by Diana Simumpande on Unsplash;…

A Harvard Pop Center Working Paper, “The changing political geographies of COVID-19 in the US,” shows that this fall there is a reverse in the trend from the spring, when case counts and excess death rates were higher in counties that lean…

A team of researchers affiliated with the HAALSI study have published their findings in Nature indicating that cognitive function scores varied depending on whether participants were being assessed using conventional measurement instruments versus one…

Our faculty affiliate Aisha Yousafzai, associate professor of global health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the recipient of this year’s Alice Hamilton Award for “her impact in public health and future promise.”…