We are thrilled to announce that after a competitive application process, Tom Lindman and Jung Hyun Kim have been selected and will be joining our community this coming fall as David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellows. Tom Lindman is a PhD candidate at the…

A snapshot of who from Harvard Pop Center is participating in PAA 2025… Harvard Pop Center affiliates—including faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, research core staff, and graduate student affiliates—are gearing up for…

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman contributes insights in this Time.com piece (focused on people working longer in Vermont) on why retirement is an elusive dream for many aging Americans (and how more flexible workplace policies can help). The…

A original investigation published in JAMA Cardiology—the first large study to analyze the impacts of national regulations on salt restriction in 13 categories of processed foods in South Africa—finds that not only was the sodium intake lowered (as…

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…