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The work of Harvard Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar alumna Duana Fullwiley, PhD, on ancestry informative markers (AIMs) is referenced in this article in The Atlantic on causes of racial-health disparities.

Harvard Pop Center’s Executive Committee Member Rohini Pande, PhD, has co-authored a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research that explores the role that India’s culture of eldest son preference may play in…

Harvard Pop Center’s faculty member Theresa Betancourt, ScD, is  featured in this Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s The Big Three news story.

Lisa Berkman, PhD, the director of the Harvard Pop Center, will be a panel member at a congressional briefing entitled “The Vow Factor: Marriage, Divorce and Family Formation and their Impact on Health and Well-Being” at the U.S. Capital…

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Nancy Kreiger, PhD, has received the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor Award, and is featured in this Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health news item.

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Theresa Betancourt, ScD, who researches the reintegration of children affected by conflict, comments on the silence of the children who were rescued from Boko Haram in this interview with NPR.

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Orfeu Buxton, PhD, comments on a study that found that people who go to bed late are at increased risk of developing diabetes, even if they sleep in late in the morning, in this VOA article.

An inaugural Forum on Population Health Equity at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will take place on September 10 – 11, 2015. The event, which will feature an array of international speakers, will be held at the Martin Conference…

In an article in MedicalXpress, Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholars program alumna Christina Roberto, PhD, (who was lead author of this recent article in a special series of The Lancet devoted to obesity) shares insights into the complex…

Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar program alum Matt Wray, PhD, shares some insights from his 2006 book Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness in this op-ed in The Christian Post on evangelicals and their apparent lack of…