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Politics of caste and class go under microscope in effort to combat child poverty in India

December 12, 2019

Harvard Bell Fellow Adel Daoud, PhD, and his colleague Shailen Nandy have authored a study published in Sociology of Development that sets out to systematically analyze how politics of caste, corruption, and wealth impact child poverty in India.

Using social media and online search to better track individual alcohol use and corroborate state-level data

December 11, 2019

Elissa Weitzman, ScD, is principal investigator of a study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that demonstrates how personally generated data — captured and tracked using such online tools as Google searches and social media…

Screen shot of a Google search field with the search term "liquore"

Postdoc pens op-ed in The New York Times: "The Myth of the Two-Parent Home"

December 10, 2019

Postdoctoral Fellow Christina Cross, PhD, shares findings in this op-ed in The New York Times from a recent study that demonstrate that access to socioeconomic resources influences the educational success of black youth more than their family…

Longitudinal study of aging in South Africa offers rare glimpse of link between cognitive function and cardiometabolic disease risk factors

December 05, 2019

Researchers affiliated with Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) have published a study in BMC Public Health that shares some baseline evidence pointing to a link between cognitive function and…

Two older women walk on a dirt road in rural South Africa

Studies find evidence of systemic racial discrimination across multiple domains in the United States

November 07, 2019

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Sara Bleich and her colleagues have published two studies examining experiences of racial discrimination in the United States. One study found substantial black-white disparities in experiences of discrimination in…

Chronic maternal depressive symptoms linked to offspring's reduced socio-emotional development at age 2 in rural Pakistan

November 07, 2019

A study by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Aisha K. Yousafzai, PhD, and colleagues explores the impact of chronic maternal depression, distinct from more temporary bouts of depression, on child development.

Using a machine learning approach to shed light on relationship between SES and women's height

November 05, 2019

Even though height is commonly correlated with socioeconomic status (SES), SES is not known as a reliable predictor of height. In this study, Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Adel Daoud, Research Associate Rockli Kim, and faculty member S (Subu) V…

Photos of Adel Daoud, Rockli Kim and S V Subramanian

Twelve years after Hurricane Katrina, some still suffering from post-traumatic stress

October 31, 2019

Researchers affiliated with the RISK project have published a study in Social Science & Medicine that looks at the long-term mental health consequences of Hurricane Katrina. Among the study participants—a group of low-income mothers— one in six was…

Harvard Public Health magazine features findings of Harvard Pop Center researchers in ℞ for an Epidemic

October 28, 2019

The current issue (Fall 2019) of Harvard Public Health magazine features research by Jack Cordes (then a graduate student), Lyndsey Rolheiser (then a Harvard Pop Center post-doc fellow), and our faculty member Subu Subramanian that “made a…

Sweetening the deal: Taxing a sweetened beverage by amount of sugar it contains could lead to health & economic gains

September 06, 2019

Anna Grummon, PhD, a Harvard Bell Fellow in the 2019-2021 cohort, is among the authors of an analysis published in the journal Science. The researchers conclude that health and economic gains could be better realized by taxing the sugar content of those…