Gary King, Harvard Pop Center faculty member, is lead author on a ground-breaking study published in Science that is the result of over five years of work. Learn more about the results of this randomized experiment in The Boston Globe and the Harvard…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member S V Subramanian, PhD, has co-authored an editorial in the Hindustan Times that calls for India to rise to the challenge of addressing the nutritional, health care, and educational needs of the 48 million children living…

Part of the answer may depend on where you live (industrial vs. agricultural economy). The findings of recent work by Harvard Pop Center faculty member and health economist David Cutler and his colleagues is cited in this New York Times article. He also…

Ichiro Kawachi, MD, shares his thoughts on how “gamification” (applying elements of game playing to other activities) can be used to motivate health-related behavior change in this invited commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger and Associate Director Jason Beckfield have penned this op-ed in nydailynews.com that calls for sports stats geeks to put their quantitative skills to use to improve U.S. stats on deaths and…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member S V (Subu) Subramanian, PhD, and other current and past Pop Center researchers, have reviewed studies on the association between stunting and child development, and make some recommendations on next steps for the…

The Harvard Pop Center is now accepting applications for its postdoctoral fellowship programs—the Bell Fellowship and the Sloan Fellowship on Aging and Work. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and research/travel funds. Learn more…

A $5,000 prize will be awarded in the form of a grant to a doctoral student, postdoctoral fellow or untenured faculty member at Harvard who has incorporated ethical considerations into their population science research. Learn more…

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) has been awarded a three year Pioneer Award by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a study entitled Workplace Redesign for Worker Well-Being: Blueprint for Resilience. The aim is to…

We are pleased to announce that the National Institute of Aging (NIA) has renewed one of the HCPDS’s signature studies, Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa” (HAALSI). The study, a collaboration…