Previous research has linked an optimistic attitude with a longer life, but now a new study authored by a team that includes our faculty member Laura Kubzansky expands the positive benefits of optimism to include a healthier life as well.

The following faculty members have been named this year to Clarivate Analytic’s annual list of Highly Cited Researchers—those who rank in the top 1% for citations by their peers—in one or two fields: David Cutler Miguel Hernan Ashish Jha …

Congratulations to our faculty members, Stephanie Jones, PhD, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, and Meredith Rowe, EdD, Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development. Learn more about these recent appointments.

Harvard Bell Fellow Nikkil Sudharsanan, PhD, has authored a paper published in the International Journal of Epidemiology that reveals that population policies to control systolic blood pressure in Indonesia could result in large (5-6 year) gains in adult…

Harvard Bell Fellow Emilie Courtin, PhD, is lead author on a study published in Social Science & Medicine that reveals that when mandatory length of education among teenagers in France was raised from age 14 to 16 by a government policy, those…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Marcia Castro, PhD, has authored a chapter in the book  Water and Sanitation‐Related Diseases and the Changing Environment: Challenges, Interventions, and Preventive Measures, Second Edition. Castro examines the…

Beth Truesdale, PhD, a Harvard Pop Center Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work, is this year’s recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging & the Life Course graduate student paper award. Learn more in the ASA’s…

Faculty member Stephanie Jones, PhD, and her research teammates are studying the very early educational patterns of a cohort of 3-and 4-year-olds in Massachusetts to learn about which “micro-features” of an educational system are most helpful…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Laura Kubzansky, PhD, and colleagues are authors of a longitudinal study in Social Science & Medicine that has found that those who recalled receiving parental warmth during childhood were more likely to also self…

A study published in npj Digital Medicine by faculty member Ashish K. Jha, MD, and colleagues (including Google researchers) has found that a machine-learned model can help identify a food safety breach at a restaurant or health department more quickly,…