Youth Families and Social Mobility

This news piece by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health features a Q&A with our faculty member Rita Hamad on why child poverty is such a pressing public health issue and how certain government policies, such as the expansion of the Child Tax…

Nancy Krieger is an author on an original investigation published in JAMA Network Open that is the subject of a featured news story on the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health website. A key finding from the study is that there was significantly…

Losing a family member is stressful, especially if that person is a household member. Since Black people are both more likely to live in a home that includes extended family members and also face lower life expectancy than White people, former Bell…

Harvard Bell Fellow Erika Meza, PhD, is an author on a novel paper that reports finding an association between higher levels of adult children’s educational attainment (a core marker of socio-economic status) with their older parents experiencing a…

With the aim of helping to improve maternal health outcomes, Harvard Pop Center faculty member Jessica Cohen, PhD, and her colleagues designed a behavioral economic intervention utilizing default scheduling of appointments with primary care providers and…

A study published in JAMA Psychiatry is one of the first to provide empirical evidence indicating an association between a grateful affect and longevity. Harvard Pop Center faculty member Laura Kubzansky is one of the authors on this population-based…

Former Harvard postdoctoral fellows Adam Lippert, Dan Corsi, and Rockli Kim, along with faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, and their colleagues have published a study in Nicotine and Tobacco Research that is one of few studies to assess cumulative…

HCPDS faculty members Christina Cross and David Pedulla were both recognized by the American Sociological Association (ASA) with the ASA Family Section’s 2023 Article of the Year Award for their independent journal articles published last year.…

HCPDS Research Scientist Elyse Jennings, PhD, has co-authored a paper published in Studies in Family Planning that examines the data that from monthly reporting by both spouses of 822 couples in rural Nepal between 2008 and 2016. Findings reveal that…

A study published in the European Sociological Review by former HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Sinn Won Han, current HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Ohjae Gowen, and HCPDS faculty member Mary Brinton expands recent research that shows an increase in…