genomic science – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Diagnosing dementia in rural South Africa using online consensus; cash transfers at earlier age in South Africa to support cognitive health later on; paving the way with promise for genomic studies on cognition in Africa

April 20, 2023

Three studies by HAALSI researchers based on a rapidly aging population in rural South Africa are contributing to the much-needed scientific literature on global cognitive aging. A study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis,…

Fullwiley in The Atlantic on causes of racial-health disparities

April 14, 2015

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.

Fullwiley on emergence of contemporary synthesis regarding racial thinking in genomic science & society

February 18, 2015

Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholars program alumna Duana Fullwiley, PhD, has published an essay in the journal Isis entitled “The ‘contemporary synthesis’: when politically inclusive genomic science relies on biological notions…