Social & Environmental Determinants of Population Health – Page 2 – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Are socioeconomic & demographic factors driving inequalities in BMI at the population level? Maybe not.

January 29, 2015

Harvard Bell Fellow Fahad Razak, MD, Pop Center faculty member S V Subramanian (Subu), PhD, and Pop Center doctoral student Aditi Krishna are authors of a study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that explores population-level changes in the…

Obesity experts weigh in on influences & nuances of framing on obesity-prevention discourse

January 28, 2015

Harvard RWJF HSS Selena Ortiz, PhD, is lead author on a study published in the American Journal of Public Health that examines the influence of framing on the obesity prevention discourse. She and her colleagues conducted interviews with experts to learn…