Why would this researcher like to see ortho-phthalates banned from consumer products?
Russ Hauser’s research on ortho-phthalates, commonly found in personal care products, is the focus of this Harvard Chan School’s Big 3 Q&A.
Now in The Lancet: US racial and ethnic data missing for COVID-19 vaccination
Harvard Pop Center Working Paper Vol. 21, No. 1, is now published as a correspondence in The Lancet.
Amazon puts the pressure on local companies to raise wages too
Former Harvard Bell Fellow Clemens Noelke is an author on a study (at the center of this piece in The New York Times) that has found that Amazon, by raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, has influenced other local companies to raise wages, and…
Latest study on aging in South Africa presents some of the first incidence rates of aging-related cognitive impairment in this population
HAALSI researchers — including former Harvard Bell Fellow Lindsay Kobayashi, and Harvard Pop Center Research Associate Meagan Farrell, and Director Lisa Berkman — have published a study that finds similar patterning between social disparities (such as…
Combatting mental distress by shoring up resilience during COVID-19 pandemic
A study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders by our recent Bell Fellow Leslie Adams, PhD, and her colleagues takes a longitudinal look (with baseline and nine waves of follow-up data from March through August, 2020) at the relationship between…
Why is the proportion of deaths from COVID-19 in nursing homes far less in Japan than in U.S.?
Ichiro Kawachi, MBChB, PhD, and his colleague Kazuhiro Abe, MD, PhD have written an op-ed in JAMA Health Forum that suggests that differences in standards of care and financing may be partially responsible for what appears to be differing infection rates…
GO BIG NOW on relief to address "commingled miseries" of COVID-19
The authors of a recent Harvard Pop Center Working Paper have pulled from this analysis of real-time data on food and housing insecurity and penned an op-ed in the New York Daily News that implores the new Biden-Harris administration to go big with…
What is driving the decline in life expectancy in the U.S., and what can be done about it?
An op-ed on health policy published in JAMA explains why the healthcare sector can only skim the surface when it comes to addressing the deep structural drivers in declining life expectancy. The authors —Atheendar S. Venkataramani, MD, PhD,…
Finally, a look at COVID-19 mortality rates by race/ethnicity AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL
“Intersectional inequities in COVID-19 mortality by race/ethnicity and education in the United States, January 1, 2020–January 31, 2021,” is the latest Harvard Pop Center working paper by Jarvis Chen, Christian Testa, Pamela Waterman, and…
Geographic Insights Lab presents LIVE COVID-19 vaccine rollout dashboard for India by state
The Geographic Insights Lab is an initiative committed to improving public policies by honing in on targeted geopolitical units (such as congressional districts in the U.S. and parliamentary constituencies in India) in order to mine more precise…
