Proposed AHCA could put health coverage for young adults at risk

June 01, 2017

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Mark Schuster, MD, is an author on an upcoming paper published in the journal Health Services Research that suggests that health insurance that includes an individual mandate more effectively keeps young adults…

Lawrence Bobo is inducted as a W.E.B. DuBois Fellow

May 18, 2017

Lisa Berkman receives 3rd Annual CAWF Mentoring Award at Harvard Chan School

May 10, 2017

Congratulations to our director Lisa Berkman on being honored with the Mentoring Award by the Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Learn more in this featured news story on the Harvard T.H. Chan…

Hypertension well managed for those older South Africans whose health was monitored by long-term surveillance program

May 05, 2017

A study just out in the Journal of Hypertension co-authored by Harvard Pop Center faculty members Stephen Tollman, Till Bärnighausen, Joshua Salomon, and Bell Fellow Xavier Gomez-Olive points to the potential effectiveness of a local, long-term…

Pop Center faculty members Killewald and Pager named as Radcliffe Institute Fellows

May 05, 2017

Congratulations to Harvard sociologists Alexandra Killewald and Devah Pager who will be joining the 2017-2018 cohort of incoming Radcliffe Institute Fellows.

For younger workers, does occupational certification pay off?

May 04, 2017

Does earning an occupational certificate (e.g., those issued by trade, professional and industry organizations) lead to higher earnings among younger workers? A study published in Social Science Research by Harvard Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work…

Lisa Berkman to receive CAWF Mentoring Award from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

April 25, 2017

The Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty (CAWF) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has announced that Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman will be honored with its Third Annual Mentoring Award at the upcoming 2017 Awards…

Economic downturns negatively impact future cognitive functioning of older U.S. workers

April 25, 2017

A study published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B by recent Harvard Bell Fellow Philipp Hessel, Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, and faculty member Mauricio Avendano has found exposure to economic downturns among U.S. workers…

New Working Paper—Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs

April 21, 2017

Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Natalia Rigol, PhD, and faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, are authors on a working paper that explores what may be influencing the apparent gender gap in microenterprise performance.

Nancy Krieger on structural racism & health inequities in US

April 14, 2017

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, is an author of this conceptual report published in The Lancet on the role that structural racism (how racial discrimination is fostered through mutually reinforcing systems of housing,…