The New York Times has published an interactive data chart (at the end of the article) that enables readers to learn about which grants at Harvard have been terminated by the current administration by pointing to projects categorized by scientific…

Congratulations to Ralph Lawton on winning the Population Association of America’s 2025 Dorothy S. Thomas Award for his paper titled “Early life infectious disease exposure, the ‘hygiene hypothesis,’ and lifespan: Evidence from…

Here’s the latest news from the Harvard Pop Center including… Introducing the next cohort of Bell Postdoctoral Fellows Harvard Pop Center goes to PAA 2025 The latest findings of our affiliates …

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate Soroush Moallef on being named the recipient of the 2025 Dillon Family Fellowship Award. This long-standing monetary award was created to benefit graduate students at the Harvard T.H. Chan…

We are thrilled to announce that after a competitive application process, Tom Lindman and Jung Hyun Kim have been selected and will be joining our community this coming fall as David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellows. Tom Lindman is a PhD candidate at the…

A snapshot of who from Harvard Pop Center is participating in PAA 2025… Harvard Pop Center affiliates—including faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, research core staff, and graduate student affiliates—are gearing up for…

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman contributes insights in this Time.com piece (focused on people working longer in Vermont) on why retirement is an elusive dream for many aging Americans (and how more flexible workplace policies can help). The…

A original investigation published in JAMA Cardiology—the first large study to analyze the impacts of national regulations on salt restriction in 13 categories of processed foods in South Africa—finds that not only was the sodium intake lowered (as…

An updated and expanded version of the “Work Design for Health” employer toolkit—developed by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the MIT Sloan School of Management—has been launched. The free online toolkit, originally…

A Harvard Pop Center working paper (Volume 24, No. 1) posted in September, 2024 is now published in the journal Health Affairs Scholar. The descriptive study (“it doesn’t establish a cause-and-effect relationship between a state’s politics and health…