Harvard Pop Center faculty member Joel Salinas, MD, will be a featured speaker at an upcoming TEDxCambridge event on Thursday, May 3, 2018, from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Boston Opera House.

Harvard Pop Center Associate Director Jason Beckfield is an author on a paper published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior that finds that policies aimed at protecting minorities from discrimination across European countries correlate with…

Mary Waters‘ research (RISK project) on the long-term consequences of a disaster on the lives of survivors is featured in this piece in  Science Magazine.

Renowned scholars Professor Sir Angus Deaton and Professor Sir Michael Marmot will be featured speakers at our upcoming special colloquium Nations at Risk: The Changing Distributions of Population Health on Friday, April 13, 2018, from 2–5 p.m.…

Former Harvard Bell Fellow Philipp Hessel, PhD, and current faculty member Mauricio Avendano, PhD, are authors on a paper in Health Affairs that has found that male recipients of small cash transfers were less likely to report bad health and to be…

A study by Harvard Bell Fellow Adel Daoud, PhD, suggests that the benefits of socio-ecological inquiry could be expanded by better understanding the dynamic relationship between scarcity, abundance and sufficiency, as opposed to seeing them as distinct…

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, along with Harvard Chan School Professor Albert Hofman and Dean Michelle Williams, discuss the social, health and economic challenges posed by the fact that we are living longer in this Harvard Chan podcast.

Researchers have found that those who feel supported in their marriages were more likely to be at a healthier weight in the midlife years. Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, and faculty members Ichiro Kawachi and Laura Kubzansky are authors on the…

There tends to be an increase in male migration into Spain during times of economic expansion, and during recessions, there is a rise in women as head of households. A study co-authored by Xiana Bueno, PhD, a sociologist and the Marie…

Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work Kyle Albert, PhD, is an author on a study that hones in on tax preparers in the U.S. to shed light on whether licensing is viewed more negatively (due to compliance and regulatory costs) or seen in a positive light…