HCPDS Director Rita Hamad, MD, PhD, SPHERE Center Postdoctoral Fellow Emily Dore, PhD, MPH, MSW, and Senior Statistical Analyst Daniel Collin, MPH, along with their colleague Megan Reynolds, PhD, are authors on a research letter published in JAMA…

Curious about who from the Harvard Pop Center is participating in this year’s PAA conference? We’ve curated a listing of the sessions that include Harvard Pop Center affiliates who are participating in PAA 2026.…

Daniel Schneider, PhD, the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, has been appointed associate director of the Harvard Center for…

We are starting 2026 with exciting news. Rita Hamad, MD, PhD, a leading social epidemiologist, has been appointed the next director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She will serve as the Center’s eighth leader in its…

We are pleased to be recruiting for the next cohort of the two-year David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship. The next cohort will begin on Sept 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at Noon/12:00 PM ET. We welcome applications from…

Harvard Pop Center faculty affiliates were among those honored with being named to the Clarivate Analytics 2025 list of Highly Cited Researchers…Congratulations to Maria Glymour, Miguel Hernan, Ichiro Kawachi, Kenneth Mayer, and David Williams!

Harvard Impact Labs, a University-wide initiative announced last March, has selected its inaugural cohort of eight Impact Lab Development Fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year. Harvard Pop Center faculty members Wafaie Fawzi, Rita Hamad, and David…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member and former postdoctoral fellow Christina Cross, PhD, discusses the findings of her book titled “Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families” in her first…

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…