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…

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…

Congratulations to faculty members Marcia Castro and David Williams on being named as chairs of the Department of Global Health and Population, and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, respectively. Learn more in this release by the Harvard…

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…