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Do reintegration programs have a positive impact on mental health of young females who had been abducted?

May 20, 2014

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Theresa Betancourt has co-authored a study published in Conflict and Health that examines the impact of reintegration programs on the mental health of formerly abducted young females in Northern Uganda.

The Association of Prenatal Life Stressors with PPD Diagnoses

August 20, 2013

Harvard Pop Center faculty member, Cindy Liu, looks at the association of prenatal life stressors with post-partum depression diagnoses in this study in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.

The Health Cost of Debt

July 22, 2013

Arijit Nandi and Elizabeth Sweet, former RWJF Health & Society Scholars, find debt to be an important socioeconomic determinant of health in their recent study, “The high price of debt: Household financial debt and its impact on mental and…

The Health Burden of Discrimination

July 16, 2013

Mark Schuster, Pop Center faculty member, finds a strong association between perceived discrimination and racial/ethnic disparities in problem behaviors among pre-adolescent youths.