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An expert paper, commissioned by The National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative and co-authored by Lisa Berkman, tackles this key topic as part of a series focused on 19 priority…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member and former RWJF Health & Society scholar Alexander Tsai, MD, PhD, is a recipient of the Young Mentor Award 2015-2016 from the Harvard Medical School. Congratulations, Alex!

Erin L. Kelly, PhD, professor of work and organization studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, will present on a study by the Work, Family & Health Network (WFHN), a trans-disciplinary research effort designed to enhance the understanding…

Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Courtney Cogburn, PhD, will partner with Stanford University in an upcoming research project aimed at giving people a better understanding of systemic racism through the use of virtual reality.…

Last year’s inaugural TEDx at Harvard was a huge success… get your tickets for the upcoming talk soon!

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, comments in this New York Times piece on the findings of a new study published in SSM – Population Health. Lead author of the study is former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jennifer Karas…

David Laibson, PhD, comments on how to take advantage of our peak cognitive abilities to help make sound decisions regarding our fiscal future in this article on plansponser.com.

A new study published in the American Sociological Review by Harvard Pop Center’s faculty member Alexandra Killewald, PhD, suggests that division of labor may have more to do with predicting a couple’s risk of divorce than the money or…

Courtney Cogburn, PhD, a Harvard RWJF HSS program alumna, is featured in this ScienceFriday podcast on the impact that racism can have on health and life expectancy.

Rebecca Clark Thurston, PhD, Harvard RWJF Health & Society program alumna, comments in a New York Times article on the latest findings based on the SWAN (Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation) and published in journal…