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…

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is now accepting applications for its postdoctoral fellowship program—the David E. Bell Fellowship for the 2025–2027 cohort. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and research/travel funds.…

We’re so fortunate to have six wonderful postdocs sitting with us this year and immersed in our Pop Center community. We are also lucky to have former Bell Fellow Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez sit with us as a visiting scientist this year. Hiram kicked…

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 timely piece in The New York Times (including insights from our director Lisa Berkman) that explores what drives some people to retire sooner than planned and what keeps some in their posts longer than they thought (and perhaps, ought).