Professors David Bloom and David Canning, along with Rashmi Dayalu (all associated with the Program on Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) at Harvard, and Boston University Assistant Professor Mahesh Karra, have created a 5-minute survey that can be taken…

Faculty member Ashish K. Jha, MD, and colleagues suggest in this JAMA Viewpoint that given the complexity of trying to parse the impact of social factors on health, perhaps developing and deploying a risk score model similar to the polygenic model could…

Researchers affiliated with a longitudinal study on aging in South Africa (HAALSI) have published a paper that examines the impact of traumatic events experienced earlier in the life course on cognition, and mental and physical health outcomes in an…

A study published by researchers affiliated with the French Constances cohort (a nationally representative sample of 200,000 adults aged between 18 and 69) reveals that neighborhoods suffering from socioeconomic deprivation were linked to cognitive…

On Bloomberg.com, Harvard Pop Center Associate Director and Sociologist Jason Beckfield points to the deep structural problems with the organization of our society as the Covid-19 pandemic blatantly exposes workforce inequality.

A team of researchers has found that those older adults in South Africa participating in the HAALSI study who demonstrated higher cognitive function and literacy levels were more likely to be knowledgeable about their own HIV status. The findings suggest…

Is it possible to improve population health through social policies that target early life, income and health insurance? The findings of a comprehensive systematic review of randomized social experiments provide evidence that social interventions have…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, and colleague Aaron E. Carroll, have outlined a plan in The Atlantic that explains the difference between suppression and mitigation in terms of tackling the coronavirus, and outlines a constructive…

In this blog post, Professor Ann Forsyth, PhD, urban planner and architect, examines three smaller scale habitats and the built environment—cities and regions, neighborhoods, and the home—in the context of infectious disease.

Faculty member David Cutler, PhD, has published a policy proposal that puts forth several reforms to the U.S. health-care system that target lowering administrative costs, which account for one-quarter to one-third of total health-care spending.