Spatiotemporal analysis depicts and confirms South Korea's effective COVID-19 containment strategy
Professor Marcia Castro, PhD, has co-authored a study that looks at the strategy used in South Korea as of May 31, 2020 to contain COVID-19.
Is social capital valuable in protecting cognitive function in lower-resource settings such as rural South Africa?
While theories about the connection between strong social supports and better cognitive health among an aging population are well established in higher resource settings (high income, high education levels), less is known about whether this same pattern…
Narrowing in on disparities in life expectancy across the U.S. with help of census-tract level data
A study published in PNAS is the first to look at life-expectancy data at the local, state, and county levels across the U.S. Findings reveal significant disparities at the micro level (census-tract) suggesting that analyzing life expectancy data at the…
Novel animated graphic illustrates lag time between COVID-19 cases and deaths in United States
A Harvard Pop Center working paper presents state-level data on COVID-19 cases and deaths (spanning from January 22 until July 8, 2020) in one animated graphic that helps to illustrate the lag time between cases and deaths. The visualization helps to…
How is COVID-19 impacting Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S.? This team is going to find out...
The research project AAPI COVID-19 Project launched by the Harvard Sociology Department in partnership with UNESCO will investigate the increase in racism aimed at Asians in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Harvard Pop Center Associate…
The power of policy; what happens when sweetened beverages are taxed & school meals are legislated to be more nutritious?
A review of two implemented policies—an excise tax of 1.81 cents/ounce on sweetened beverages in Philadelphia, and the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010—shows that both policies had a positive impact on health and health behaviors. Authors of the…
American Cancer Society renews research award to Nancy Krieger
Congratulations to Professor Nancy Krieger on being named as one of four recipients of a five-year research grant awarded by the American Cancer Society’s Extramural Grants program. Learn more about this prestigious research grant…
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Novel approach to help predict and diagnose diseases tracks electronic health records over time using machine learning
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Hossein Estiri, PhD, is an author on a study published in Cell Patterns that is receiving attention in the media for its sequential approach to mining meaningful (as it relates to predicting and diagnosing diseases)…
Years of potential life lost statistic could help "shake our collective numbness to the pandemic"
The findings of a Harvard Pop Center Working paper by Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, Jarvis Chen, ScD, and Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, is the focal point of an article on Vox.com.
Professor Subramanian named to multi-disciplinary commission launched to address global COVID-19 response
The Journal of Global Health Science has launched a commission comprised of scientific and social science scholars from a wide range of disciplines to help foster global engagement and cooperation in the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. S (Subu) V…
