Populations in middle-income countries, in many cases, are aging at a faster rate than high-income countries, and these countries typically lack the resources that help to meet the health challenges that coincide with living longer. A new study by a team…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Ann Forsyth is co-author of this essay in The Hastings Center Report that breaks down the complex role that the living environment plays in our well-being as we age.

Sociologist Xiana Bueno, PhD, a recent Harvard postdoctoral fellow, and her colleague have published a study in Journal of Family Issues that has found that certain Latin American women who migrated to Spain during the Great Recession were more…

A study published in Health Economics, Policy and Law has found non-health government spending to be associated with lower inequalities in infant mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries, whereas health government expenditure was not. Harvard…

A study published by HAALSI researchers, including recent Harvard Bell Fellow Lindsay Kobayashi, Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, and faculty members S V Subramanian (Subu), Kathleen Kahn, and Stephen Tollman, finds that while short stature…

Rebecca C. Thurston, PhD, a former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar, is lead author on a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that has published these timely findings receiving coverage in The Washington Post, the Huffington…

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member (and presenter at this fall’s first Social Demography Seminar)  Lawrence Bobo, PhD, on his appointment to dean of social science. Learn more about this Harvard College Professor and…

Given the strong connection between optimism (and other signposts of psychological well-being) and cardiovascular health, Laura Kubzansky and colleagues recommend in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) that rigorous…

With funding by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Professor S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and Harvard Pop Center postdoctoral fellow Rockli Kim, ScD, plan to pursue a line of study that could lead to a fundamental shift in the way that population health…

Learn more about a study by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nicole Maestas, PhD, and colleagues in this Harvard Medical School news piece and in the press.