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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 Harvard Pop Center working paper (Volume 24, No. 1) posted in September, 2024 is now published in the journal Health Affairs Scholar. The descriptive study (“it doesn’t establish a cause-and-effect relationship between a state’s politics and health…

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is now accepting applications for its postdoctoral fellowship program—the David E. Bell Fellowship for the 2025–2027 cohort. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and research/travel funds.…

We’re so fortunate to have six wonderful postdocs sitting with us this year and immersed in our Pop Center community. We are also lucky to have former Bell Fellow Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez sit with us as a visiting scientist this year. Hiram kicked…

Congratulations to Darina Bassil, Pop Center research scientist, who was selected for the inaugural cohort of the Association of Population Center (APC) Fellowship program for 2024–2025. Darina is project director of the HAALSI Dementia Study…

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center graduate student affiliates Muqi Guo and Dena Javadi on being named the recipients of the Dillon Family Fellowship Award. This long-standing monetary award was created to benefit graduate students at the Harvard T.H.…

Bell Fellow Hayami Koga, along with Harvard Pop Center faculty members David Williams and Laura Kubzansky and their colleagues, have published a study in JAMA Psychiatry on the association between optimism and physical functioning among older women…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member David Canning shares insights gleaned from his research on the relationship between chess and cognitive aging in this piece published in GQ. You can also learn more in this Harvard Chan School news post.

We’re thrilled to announce that two new Bell Fellows have been selected from a competitive pool of applicants and will be joining us this coming fall! Kate Beach will complete her PhD in geography & environment at the University of North…

Physicians, professors and research scientists affiliated with Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies in South Africa (HAALSA)—the ten-year (and counting) project that has been following a cohort that started as 5,000 men and women aged 40 and…