Dr. Alex Tsai Publishes Work on HIV/AIDS in Uganda

January 16, 2014

Pop Center faculty member Alexander C. Tsai has recently co-authored a number of studies pertaining to the treatment of HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Dr. Tsai was first author on “Internalized stigma, social distance, and disclosure of HIV…

The Association between Hearing Loss and Social Isolation in Older Adults

January 15, 2014

Pop Center Faculty Member Ichiro Kawachi has co-authored a study that investigates whether age-related hearing loss is associated with social isolation and whether factors such as age, gender, income, race, or hearing aid use moderated the…

Female Physicians in U.S. Are Paid Less Than Male Counterparts

September 13, 2013

A new study by Amitabh Chandra, Harvard Kennedy School Professor of Public Policy and Pop Center executive committee member, finds that female physicians in the U.S. are paid less.

Americans Living Longer and Healthier

September 13, 2013

In a bit of good news, David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and Pop Ctr faculty member, finds that Americans are living longer healthier lives. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/the-good-life-longer/

Small Changes in Household Eating Routines Make a Difference

September 13, 2013

Associate Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute/Harvard Medical School and Pop Ctr faculty member Elsie Taveras discusses how small changes in household routines and eating habits can make a difference.

Association between Work-Family Conflict and Musculoskeletal Pain

September 13, 2013

Pop Center faculty members Cassandra Okechukwu, Orfeu Buxton and their colleagues examine the association between work-family stress and musculoskeletal pain in hospital workers. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23019044

Youth employment in South Africa

August 28, 2013

Pop Center faculty member Till Bärnighausen and colleagues explore the challenges of youth employment in South Africa in this working paper.

Do health behaviours mediate the effects of local-area economic conditions on mortality?

August 28, 2013

Former RWJF Health & Society Scholar Ari Nandi explores the hypothesis that health behaviours mediate the effects of local-area economic conditions on mortality in this newly released study.

The Association of Prenatal Life Stressors with PPD Diagnoses

August 20, 2013

Harvard Pop Center faculty member, Cindy Liu, looks at the association of prenatal life stressors with post-partum depression diagnoses in this study in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.

Capturing Sexual Behavior Information in Youth in Ghana

August 05, 2013

Former Harvard/RWJF Health & Society Scholar, Bart Bingenheimer, and colleagues report on the success of a new survey instrument suitable for capturing sexual behavior information in Ghana and other sub-Saharan areas.