CANCELLED: The Harvard Pop Center is Celebrating 60 Years...Please Join Us!

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Date and Time

April 23, 2025

Location

Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (Harvard Pop Center) will be hosting two special events to commemorate its 60th Anniversary.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

CANCELLED: 2:00 pm–3:30 pm: Open House & Reception hosted by the faculty, researchers, and staff of the Harvard Pop Center, including poster presentations—highlighting the current research of our postdoctoral fellows, research core staff, and graduate student affiliates—tours, and tea & treats from around the globe. Location: Harvard Pop Center, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge MA.

CANCELLED: 4:00 pm–5:00 pm: John Wilmoth, Director of the Population Division, United Nations, and former Professor of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the Harvard Pop Center Keynote Address titled “The Future of World Population: Divergent Trends, Competing Narratives, and the Role of the United Nations.” Location: Harvard Faculty Club Library, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.


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About the Harvard Pop Center

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is a Harvard University cross-school, interfaculty initiative administered by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that brings together scientists from all corners of the Harvard campus—and beyond—to make exciting advances in population research. With 8 billion people living on the planet and a projected 9.8 billion by 2050, our focus is on examining the most nuanced trends and important challenges in this century.