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The dangers of ignoring the other epidemic during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jason Block contributes his public health expertise to this op-ed in The Washington Post on the acute (and chronic) risks of ignoring the obesity issue in the U.S.
“The reason obesity is so stigmatized is that people think of weight as a choice . . .…
Announcing our next cohort of Bell Fellows!
We are pleased to announce that after an extensive and competitive recruitment process, three exceptional scholars will be joining the Harvard Pop Center community as Bell Fellows this coming fall (2021–2023).
Brittney Butler’s research…
Why would this researcher like to see ortho-phthalates banned from consumer products?
Russ Hauser’s research on ortho-phthalates, commonly found in personal care products, is the focus of this Harvard Chan School’s Big 3 Q&A.
Amazon puts the pressure on local companies to raise wages too
Former Harvard Bell Fellow Clemens Noelke is an author on a study (at the center of this piece in The New York Times) that has found that Amazon, by raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, has influenced other local companies to raise wages, and…
GO BIG NOW on relief to address "commingled miseries" of COVID-19
The authors of a recent Harvard Pop Center Working Paper have pulled from this analysis of real-time data on food and housing insecurity and penned an op-ed in the New York Daily News that implores the new Biden-Harris administration to go big with…
What is driving the decline in life expectancy in the U.S., and what can be done about it?
An op-ed on health policy published in JAMA explains why the healthcare sector can only skim the surface when it comes to addressing the deep structural drivers in declining life expectancy. The authors —Atheendar S. Venkataramani, MD, PhD,…
Geographic Insights Lab presents LIVE COVID-19 vaccine rollout dashboard for India by state
The Geographic Insights Lab is an initiative committed to improving public policies by honing in on targeted geopolitical units (such as congressional districts in the U.S. and parliamentary constituencies in India) in order to mine more precise…
Analyzing electronic health records can be a fast and accurate way to predict risk of death from COVID-19
Hossein Estiri, PhD, is lead author on a study that utilized artificial intelligence to leverage the data compiled in electronic health records to compute individual-level risk scores for death after a COVID-19 infection. Among those predictors at the…
Study aims to advance prevention of HIV/AIDS among young women in low- and middle-income countries
Two researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center (Chungling Lu, PhD, and S V Subramanian, PhD) and their colleagues assessed levels of knowledge of HIV/AIDS and associated socioeconomic disparities among young women between the ages of 15-24 using…
