Summer Hawkins – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Hawkins and Gillman link 3 decades of clinical and public health data to examine disparities in childhood obesity

March 28, 2016

Former RWJF Health & Society Scholar Summer Hawkins and faculty member Matthew Gillman are co-authors on a BMC Medicine article on the establishment of the Linked CENTURY database. Hawkins, Gillman and their colleagues linked the existing CENTURY…

Do children from immigrant families in U.S. receive equal quality of pediatric healthcare?

May 26, 2015

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar program alumna Summer Hawkins, PhD, along with lead author Rocio Calvo Vilches, PhD, a former Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow, have published a study in Maternal and Child Health Journal that…

Almost half of nonsmoking pregnant women studied in NYC show signs of secondhand smoke

March 21, 2014

Former Pop Center RWJF Scholar Summer Hawkins, PhD, has co-authored a paper indicating that nearly half of nonsmoking pregnant women studied in NYC had elevated cotinine levels despite living in a city with comprehensive tobacco control policies. Study…