Past Research Projects

The Work, Family & Health Study (WFHS) was a comprehensive evaluation of a work/family intervention that was designed to make changes to the workplace itself with the goal of improving worker health while also benefiting organizations. The Work, Family & Health Network (WFHN) was the interdisciplinary team of researchers brought together to conduct this research and advance the field of “work and well-being.” The WFHS yielded 150 scholarly publications, freely available toolkits that employers can use to implement workplace changes with the intention of promoting employee health, and valuable data that researchers may still access.

Staying in the workforce longer as a strategy to better prepare for retirement is not a viable option for everyone. Nearly 30 experts across economics, sociology, psychology, political science, and epidemiology examine how increasing economic and social inequalities, along with changes across generations or birth cohorts, and the physical limitations that can result from a lifetime of physical labor, call for a rethinking of the working-longer policy framework.

S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and Rockli Kim, ScD, were awarded a 2.2 million dollar grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve precision public policy, public financing, and governance in India related to indicators of population health and development.