Nations at Risk – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Dean Michelle Williams pens op-ed on social isolation as public health issue & cites Nations at Risk colloquium

May 08, 2018

In today’s Boston Globe, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean and Pop Center faculty member Michelle Williams co-authors editorial on role that loneliness and social isolation play in “deaths of despair” as described by…

Nations at Risk colloquium explores 'deaths of despair' and 'dreams of a fairer world'

April 18, 2018

Lisa Berkman welcomes the audience Dean Michelle Williams delivers introductory remarks Sir Angus Deaton speaks about rise in ‘deaths of despair’ Crowd of Harvard affiliates absorb sobering statistics about effects of education gap …

Special population health colloquium with Professor Sir A. Deaton and Professor Sir M. Marmot to be streamed live

March 12, 2018

Renowned scholars Professor Sir Angus Deaton and Professor Sir Michael Marmot will be featured speakers at our upcoming special colloquium Nations at Risk: The Changing Distributions of Population Health on Friday, April 13, 2018, from 2–5 p.m.…