Announcing the 2026–2028 cohort of Harvard Postdoctoral Bell Fellows!

Congratulations to Courtney Allen and Caroline Kravitz who have been selected from the competitive pool of applicants to join the Harvard Pop Center as members of the 2026–2028 cohort of Harvard David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellows this coming fall. We’re looking forward to having them join our Center!

Courtney Allen is a PhD candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Washington whose research investigates structural mechanisms of population health inequities in both historical and contemporary settings. Her dissertation explores the structural roots of health stratification by examining hospital access, mortality rates, and social resistance during and after hospital desegregation in the 1960s in the American South. She uses interdisciplinary perspectives which draw from her training in sociology, demography, and public health to employ quantitative, demographic, and mixed-methods. As a Harvard Bell Fellow, Allen will extend her work to investigate how historical processes contribute to contemporary landscapes of social and racial inequalities.

Caroline Kravitz is a PhD candidate in health services research and policy at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Her work focuses on social epidemiology and causal inference, specifically the impact of immigration policy on health (e.g., food access/security). Her dissertation, in which she uses a longitudinal policy dataset that she helped to create, examines state and local sanctuary policies and their impact on household SNAP enrollment and food security. As a Bell Fellow, she plans to continue to explore how immigration and immigrant policies implemented at different levels of government impact feelings of fear or inclusion, influence access to necessities like food, and ultimately, shape health outcomes.