Harvard Bell Fellow – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Reframing "environmental harms" to include more than just pollutants and toxins to effectively address reproductive health inequities

May 18, 2022

Harvard Bell Fellow Brittney Butler, PhD, has co-authored a review in the journal Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports that examines the literature from the last five years focused on “the built and social environment factors and…

Gender norms in rural north India may play role in slow adoption of cleaner, government-endorsed fuel sources for cooking

October 27, 2021

Harvard Bell Fellow Aashish Gupta, PhD, and colleagues have published a study in World Development that indicates that despite the government promoting the uptake of cleaner fuel (liquid petroleum gas) for cooking in rural north India, the majority of…

Controlling blood pressure at the population level is associated with large life expectancy gains in Indonesia

December 04, 2018

Harvard Bell Fellow Nikkil Sudharsanan, PhD, has authored a paper published in the International Journal of Epidemiology that reveals that population policies to control systolic blood pressure in Indonesia could result in large (5-6 year) gains in adult…