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Harvard Pop Center faculty member Jason Block, MD, MPH, commented on the smaller-sized offering by Starbucks in this livescience piece, which received attention in Huffington Post and Fox News.

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, is lead author on a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health that found that single motherhood before the age of 50 was associated with poorer health in later life. The…

Harvard Pop Center faculty members Laura Kubzansky, PhD,  Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, and M. Maria Glymour, ScD, are co-authors on a ground-breaking study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association that indicates that even when…

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s news feature The Big 3 asks Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, three questions about a recent paper that found that women who received more generous maternity leave benefits with their first born…

Harvard Pop Center faculty members Till Bärnighausen, ScD, MD, PhD, and David Bloom, PhD, are co-authors of a new paper written for the 2015 Copenhagen Consensus that touts scaling up male circumcision to include 90% of Sub-Saharan males who are not HIV…

Two new studies co-authored by faculty member Gary King, PhD,  find that the Social Security Administration’s forecasts have been  overstating the health of the program since 2000. The studies, one in the Journal of Economic Perspectives,…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Mark Schuster, MD, PhD, is lead author of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that not only did sexual minority kids in tenth grade experience more bullying than their peers, but so did…

Michael R. Reich, PhD, Harvard Pop Center faculty member and former director, has received an award from the Japanese Government for helping to promote Japan’s global health policy. Read more on the Harvard Chan School’s website, and in this…

Harvard Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars program alumnae Kate McLaughlin, PhD, and Margaret Sheridan, PhD, have published a study that shows a link between early caregiving environments and how children’s stress response systems…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member and principal investigator of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) David E. Bloom, PhD, was named one of 32 inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellows. This newly established fellowship supports scholarly work in…