Lisa Berkman speaks to the Boston Globe about emotional support
Lisa Berkman was featured this week in a Boston Globe article on the importance of emotional support, especially within the workplace.
Lisa Berkman to speak on "What Shapes Health"
On Tuesday, March 3, Lisa Berkman will be part of a panel discussion on “What Shapes Health?” This event, co-hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and NPR, will be webcast live at 12:30…
Air pollution in India reducing life expectancy for 660 million by 3.2 years
Rohini Pande, PhD, director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Evidence for Policy Design and Harvard Pop Center faculty member, is co-author of a special article published in Economic & Political Weekly that reveals the deadly impact of the air…
Tackling child obesity; a call to protect children from lure of sedentary activities & nutrient-poor diet
Harvard Pop Center faculty member and professor of the practice of health sociology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Steven Gortmaker, PhD, is co-author of a study, one of a six-part series devoted to obesity in The Lancet, that calls for…
How can global obesity epidemic be reversed? A call for "smart food policies."
Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar program alumna and current Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty member Christina Roberto, PhD, is lead author of a paper that is one in a six-part series devoted to obesity in The Lancet. The paper…
Can we predict how long phase of menopausal hot flashes & night sweats will last?
Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar alumna Rebecca Thurston, PhD, is co-author of a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that found that more than half of the women in the study who experienced frequent vasomotor symptoms (VMS) – which…
Fullwiley on emergence of contemporary synthesis regarding racial thinking in genomic science & society
Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholars program alumna Duana Fullwiley, PhD, has published an essay in the journal Isis entitled “The ‘contemporary synthesis’: when politically inclusive genomic science relies on biological notions…
Harvard RWJF HSS program alumni edit special edition of Social Science & Medicine journal
Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar alumni Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, and Esther Friedman, PhD, are editors of a special issue of Social Science & Medicine entitled “Educational Attainment and Adult Health: Contextualizing…
Course designed to help prevent perinatal depressive symptoms looks to be helpful
Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar alumna Tamar Mendelson, PhD, is co-author of a study published in Maternal and Child Health Journal that evaluates the results of a course, Mothers and Babies, designed to help prevent perinatal depression in…
Better work-life balance can contribute to better sleep
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Orfeu Buxton was quoted in this Boston Globe article and in this article in Entrepreneur on the role that a healthy work-life balance can have on people’s sleep. Buxton, along with Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman…