Ben Seligman – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

If this is to be the "Decade of Healthy Ageing," treatments and support for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRDs) need to scale up now

April 08, 2021

The United Nations has declared that we are now in the “UN Decade of Healthy Ageing” (2021-2030) as a way to address the challenges that accompany increasing global life expectancy. Two researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center…

When it comes to risk factors for COVID-19 mortality, simulation study finds social determinants of health on par with diabetes

January 25, 2021

To compensate for there being little data available on the relationship between COVID-19 deaths and social determinants of health, Harvard Pop Center faculty members Ben Seligman and David Bloom, along with their colleague Maddalena Ferranna, have…