LGB Young Adults at Heightened Risk for Cardiometabolic Risk
Kate McLaughlin, PhD, & co-authors find that stressful events experienced earlier in life elevate cardiometabolic risk in LGB young adults.
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Aging Well; Examining Health of Those on Their Way to Becoming Centenarians
Former Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, PhD, has co-authored a study that examines the long-term trajectories of disease, disability and cognitive functioning among potential centenarians, finding that those who lived to 100 had…
Balanced Research Approach Called For to Explain Declining Life Expectancy of Low-Educated Women
Former Harvard RWJF Scholar Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, and a colleague have written an editorial, published in the American Journal of Public Health, that challenges researchers to apply a balanced approach, incorporating two criteria, to better…
Health Impact Assessment Impacts Proposed Changes in MBTA Fares and Service
Pop Center Yerby Fellow Mariana Arcaya, ScD has co-authored a study that shares the results of a health impact assessment (HIA) that influenced the MBTA to make more modest fare increases and service cuts.
Why Family-Leave Policies Matter
Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD, has co-authored a Perspective in NEJM on the important role that family-leave policy can play in helping to lessen health care costs and improve children’s health outcomes.
The Impact of Immigrant Status on Sleep Duration
A study by Pop Center-affiliated faculty members David Williams, PhD, and Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, explore short sleep duration (less than 7 hours per night) in a new light by taking immigrant status, in addition to race and occupation, into account.
The Complexities of Assessing Health Impacts of Urbanicity in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pop Center Perspective
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and Bell Fellow Fahad Razak, MD, have published a Perspective in PLoS Medicine in response to a study titled Urbanicity and Lifestyle Risk Factors for Cardiometabolic Diseases in Rural Uganda: A…
Having Better-Educated Offspring May Add Years to Parents' Lives
Harvard RWJF HSS Alum Esther Friedman, PhD, has co-authored a study that suggests that making an investment in children’s higher education may have a big payoff for parents’ lifespan. The study has received media coverage, including this…
Age at Menarche: 50-Year Socioeconomic Trends Among US-Born Black and White Women.
Pop Center faculty members Nancy Krieger and Jason Beckfield have published a study analyzing 50 years of data on the age at which US-born Black and White women begin menstruation. Their works shows that trends in age at menarche vary by socioeconomic…
Impact of family planning on child survival and development
Pop Center faculty members Gunther Fink and Wafaie Fawzi have published a new study showing that postponing the age of first birth and increasing inter-pregnancy intervals—two outcomes made possible by family planning—have the potential to significantly…