The BBC speaks with four experts, including Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar program alumna Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, about the rising death rates of white American middle-aged women in this article, including a short video that uses sound to…

Alexander Tsai, PhD, MD, a former RWJF Health & Society Scholar at Harvard, and currently a member of the Harvard Pop Center faculty, is co-author on a study published in Aids and Behavior that suggests that reducing the stigma of HIV could help to…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Wafaie Fawzi is author on a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that has found that Tanzanian infants (at 6 weeks) with elevated levels of antibodies to LPS and flagellin (potential markers of…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Ichiro Kawachi, MD, and colleagues examined the data collected from nearly 190,000 women nurses followed over a 24-year period, expanding the outcomes and measures to include more than just heart attacks and death by…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Mark Schuster, MD, is an author on a paper published in Pediatrics that examines the results of an intervention aimed at lowering the BMI of middle school students over a two-year period.

A study by Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholars program alum Andrew Papachristos, PhD, and colleagues published in Crime & Delinquency finds that Project Longevity, piloted in New Haven, CT started in 2012, is linked to a reduction of almost 5…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Ashish Jha, MD, comments on potential impact of Brazil-based Summer Olympic Games on spread of Zika virus in New York Times.

Harvard Pop Center Research Core Director Jocelyn Finlay, PhD, and Research Associate Iván Mejía-Guevara, PhD, are authors on a working paper published by United Nations University WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research) that examines…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Matthew Gillman, MD, has been selected by National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be the program director of ECHO (Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes), a revamped approach to achieving the same goals as the…

It is commonly thought that those who live the longest typically experience a condensed period of illness (compression of morbidity) as opposed to many years of chronic illness. However, a recent study published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community…