Job Openings at the Harvard Pop Center
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For policy change in India, it really may take a village
Researchers at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) have been awarded a 2.2 million dollar grant by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health professor of population health and…
Public event in South Africa will showcase research on health and aging in Southern Africa
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) in South Africa, in partnership with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, will host an event titled Health and Ageing in Southern Africa: Addressing Inequities over the Life…
Harvard Pop Center welcomes new cadre of postdoc fellows
We are pleased to introduce the new postdoctoral fellows who have recently joined us. We are welcoming a new Bell Fellow, Anna Grummon, PhD, a behavioral scientist with a special focus on nutrition policies, as well as new Sloan Fellow on Aging and…
Sweetening the deal: Taxing a sweetened beverage by amount of sugar it contains could lead to health & economic gains
Anna Grummon, PhD, a Harvard Bell Fellow in the 2019-2021 cohort, is among the authors of an analysis published in the journal Science. The researchers conclude that health and economic gains could be better realized by taxing the sugar content of those…
"This experiment has failed:" Beth Truesdale on shifting the burden of security in retirement to individuals
Harvard Pop Center Research Associate Beth Truesdale, PhD, has penned a Letter to the Editor published in The Boston Globe that calls for strengthening Social Security and employer-based retirement plans. Beth is currently co-editing a volume titled…
Optimistic outlook linked to greater, even "exceptional," longevity
Laura Kubzansky and her colleagues have published a paper in PNAS that has furthered previous research on the link between optimism and better health to now find a relationship between optimism and greater longevity (up to 15% longer, on average)…
Harvard Chan School reports: In India, population policy needs to go beyond the numbers alone
Harvard Pop Center faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and student Pritha Chatterjee have penned an op-ed that is the subject of a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health news item.
Study finds racial disparities in hitting developmental milestones among young transgender women
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Sari Reisner, ScD, is an author on a study that examines what age young women develop and express their transgender identities, finding that Black & Latina transgender women begin disclosing their identity to others…
Are there "missing" women patients in India? A closer look at gender discrimination in access to healthcare
Harvard Pop Center faculty member S V Subramanian, PhD, is among the authors of a study that reviewed outpatient data from a large referral public hospital in Delhi, India, and found that for every 1.69 male hospital visits, there was only 1 female…
