In a new study published in Population Research and Policy Review, former Bell fellow Hiram Beltran-Sanchez and colleagues use the concept of avoidable/amenable mortality to estimate cause-of-death contributions to the difference in life…

Andrew Papachristos, PhD, a scholar in the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program at the Pop Center from 2010- 2012, had an article titled “Network Exposure and Homicide Victimization in an African American Community” published in The…

Arijit Nandi, PhD, a scholar in the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program at the Pop Center from 2008- 2010, had a article titled Socioeconomic inequalities in HIV/AIDS prevalence in sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from the Demographic…

We’re pleased to welcome in fall 2014 Germana Henry Leyna, MD, PhD, as our next Mortimer Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Leyna is a lecturer in Epidemiology at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania. As a fellow, she…

We’re pleased to announce the names of the two incoming Bell Postdoctoral Fellows here at the Harvard Pop Center. We look forward to their arrival this fall: Phillip Hessel (London School of Economics) – Demography Molly Rosenberg…

We’re pleased to welcome the next cohort of RWJF Health & Society Scholars at Harvard. Angie Boyce (Cornell University) – Science & Technology Studies Rourke O’Brien (Princeton University) – Sociology / Social Policy Colleen Reid…

Professor in the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health and Pop Center faculty member Mathew Gillman has recently published a paper titled Vitamin D Status and Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy

Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Pop Center executive committee member Amitabh Chandra is quoted in this article in Bloomberg Opinion Online entitled Health-Care Jobs Are Getting Squeezed, Finally

Pop Center faculty member Dr. Till Bärnighausen has co-authored a paper in Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice entitled “Bringing the state back in: Understanding and validating measures of…

Mariana Arcaya’s article entitled Tailoring Community-Based Wellness Initiatives With Latent Class Analysis — Massachusetts Community Transformation Grant Projects has been published on the CDC website.