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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…

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.…