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Our former Bell Fellow (2008-2010 cohort) Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is author of the book As the World Ages (Harvard University Press). Learn more about her work in Columbia University’s Public Health Now Q&A “Global Aging is a Local…

Congratulations to our faculty member Claudia Goldin on being awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category for her pioneering analysis of the gender gap. Learn more in this release!

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Joscha Legewie, PhD, is interviewed by The Harvard Gazette about his recent study published in the American Sociological Review that explores the negative social and educational impact of aggressive policing on African…

Data collected during the Work, Family & Health Network study suggests that every minute counts when it comes to work performance! Just 16 minutes of sleep loss can negatively impact work performance the next day. Learn more in this article written…

Congratulations to our faculty member Michèle Lamont on being selected as one of only three sociologists in the cadre of 32 social scientists and humanists across the country named as honorees of this prestigious award.

Are you a research scientist with a PhD in demography, public health, epidemiology, or a related field who is interested in health and aging in a global context? The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, in partnership with the…

Professor Sara Bleich, a Harvard Pop Center faculty member, sheds light on how our environment can shape our behavior (and our body), and shares her journey to becoming a public policy expert on obesity in this piece in The Harvard Gazette.

There are 543 Parliamentary Constituencies (PCs) in India, and these political units are key to improving human capital and development. Expanding on their own recent research, Harvard Pop Center faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, Research Associate…

Nicole Maestas, PhD, is lead author on a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that reports some potentially hopeful news regarding the national opioid crisis: the first-time prescription rate is lower, as is the rate for prescriptions…

Alabama Senator Andrew Jones (R-Centre) put forward an opioid education bill — the Patient Opiate Risk Education Act — that would require medical practitioners to educate patients about the addiction and health risks involved with prescription opioids.…