Archive: 2025

Harvard Impact Labs, a University-wide initiative announced last March, has selected its inaugural cohort of eight Impact Lab Development Fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year. Harvard Pop Center faculty members Wafaie Fawzi, Rita Hamad, and David…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member and former postdoctoral fellow Christina Cross, PhD, discusses the findings of her book titled “Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families” in her first…

The New York Times has published an interactive data chart (at the end of the article) that enables readers to learn about which grants at Harvard have been terminated by the current administration by pointing to projects categorized by scientific…

Congratulations to Ralph Lawton on winning the Population Association of America’s 2025 Dorothy S. Thomas Award for his paper titled “Early life infectious disease exposure, the ‘hygiene hypothesis,’ and lifespan: Evidence from…

Here’s the latest news from the Harvard Pop Center including… Introducing the next cohort of Bell Postdoctoral Fellows Harvard Pop Center goes to PAA 2025 The latest findings of our affiliates …

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate Soroush Moallef on being named the recipient of the 2025 Dillon Family Fellowship Award. This long-standing monetary award was created to benefit graduate students at the Harvard T.H. Chan…

We are thrilled to announce that after a competitive application process, Tom Lindman and Jung Hyun Kim have been selected and will be joining our community this coming fall as David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellows. Tom Lindman is a PhD candidate at the…

A snapshot of who from Harvard Pop Center is participating in PAA 2025… Harvard Pop Center affiliates—including faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, research core staff, and graduate student affiliates—are gearing up for…

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman contributes insights in this Time.com piece (focused on people working longer in Vermont) on why retirement is an elusive dream for many aging Americans (and how more flexible workplace policies can help). The…

A original investigation published in JAMA Cardiology—the first large study to analyze the impacts of national regulations on salt restriction in 13 categories of processed foods in South Africa—finds that not only was the sodium intake lowered (as…