Alabama Senator cites findings by Harvard Pop Center researchers as he introduces opioid education bill

March 06, 2019

Alabama Senator Andrew Jones (R-Centre) put forward an opioid education bill — the Patient Opiate Risk Education Act — that would require medical practitioners to educate patients about the addiction and health risks involved with prescription opioids.…

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New methods to more accurately pinpoint areas experiencing greatest burden of child malnutrition in India

March 05, 2019

Rockli Kim, ScD, and S V Subramanian, PhD, are among the authors of a study published in Social Science & Medicine that furthers recent insights on the value of focusing on parliamentary constituencies to hone in on areas experiencing the…

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Study projections indicate that middle-income countries will need to significantly expand health care services to keep up with aging population

March 01, 2019

Recent Harvard Bell Fellow Nikkil Sudharsanan, PhD, and a colleague have authored a paper published in the journal Hypertension that estimates that by 2050 demographic changes alone will increase the number of adults in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia,…

In China, the "oldest-old" urban dwellers are experiencing less disability and, for some, longer life expectancy

February 06, 2019

Collin F. Payne, PhD, a fellow in a recent cohort of our Bell Postdoctoral Fellows, is an author on a paper published in BMC Medicine that examines both life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy among those cohorts born 1919–1928…

Researchers will shed new light on working longer and delayed retirement with Sloan Foundation grant

January 31, 2019

In the U.S., as in many industrialized nations, policymakers have embraced the notion that most individuals can (and should) work longer. But changes across generations in health, family, and work may make it hard for substantial sections of the U.S.…

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We're hiring a Research Assistant (RA) at the Harvard Pop Center

January 30, 2019

Are you interested in researching cognitive aging and dementia in a global context? Learn more about this opportunity to join our team…

Increasing mother's education beyond compulsory 9 years decreases child malnutrition in conflict-ridden Nigeria

January 30, 2019

Harvard Bell Fellow Adel Daoud, PhD, is an author on a study that has leveraged a machine-learning approach—Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART)—that confirms and refines earlier findings that maternal education decreases severe child…

Viewing child malnutrition in India by parliamentary constituency hones in on burden

January 17, 2019

A study by Harvard Pop Center research associate Rockli Kim, ScD, and faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and colleagues, that applies two newly developed geographic information systems methodologies to analyze the 543 parliamentary…

Longer compulsory education not necessarily better for cognitive & mental health outcomes; a natural experiment finds differences between genders

January 16, 2019

A new study published in the BMJ Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health examined the long-term health impacts of a policy enacted in France that extended compulsory education by two years. Lead author Emilie Courtin, PhD, a current Harvard Bell…

New findings on aging in a newer population in South Africa

January 15, 2019

Three studies by researchers affiliated with Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) have been published this month shedding light on the status of cognitive function, the level of daily living limitations and…