S. Bryn Austin, ScD, is senior author on the study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Learn more in this new item by The Harvard Chan School. Other authors include: Flora Or, Sc.D., Yongjoo Kim, Sc.D., and Juliana Simms.

Congratulations to Harvard sociologist and Pop Center faculty member Joscha Legewie on being awarded the 2019 Hans L. Zetterberg Prize for his innovative, creative approaches to social science research.

Gender equality is positively associated with fertility, whereas perceived economic uncertainty tends to contribute to lower fertility. Recent postdoc fellow Xiana Bueno and faculty member Mary Brinton have authored a paper published in Population…

A mother’s education level has been found to be linked to her offspring’s body mass index (BMI) as early as three years of age in three European countries. The recent findings by Harvard Pop Center affiliates (faculty member Mauricio…

A study finds that aging Americans (a growing population) consume more energy. Learn more about the research findings of Harvard Pop Center faculty member Hossein Estiri and his colleague Emilio Zagheni in The New York Times, the New Scientist, and The…

Lisa Berkman shares her thoughts with CNN on how having strong social connections can help us weather the challenges of aging. Learn more in this news item by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

More on the “India Factsheet” project by S V Subramanian, Rockli Kim and colleagues in this piece in The Harvard Gazette…

Our former Bell Fellow (2008-2010 cohort) Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is author of the book As the World Ages (Harvard University Press). Learn more about her work in Columbia University’s Public Health Now Q&A “Global Aging is a Local…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Robert J. Sampson is co-author of a paper published in PNAS that has found that a harsh neighborhood environment—high in violence, incarceration and lead levels—is linked with lowered social mobility later in life, after…

Laura Kubzansky is an author on a paper that explores optimism in relation to likelihood of healthy aging, considering whether effects are evident over and above effects of health-related behaviors and depression. Findings suggest that optimism should be…