Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty members Amitabh Chandra and David Cutler share their thoughts on health care spending in this New York Times article.
Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a member of the Harvard Pop Center’s Steering Committee, is featured on WGBH’s Innovation Hub and discusses whether technology has…
Matt Wray, PhD, former RWJF Health & Society Scholar at Harvard Pop Center, and current associate professor of sociology at Temple University, is interviewed in The Society Pages on his upcoming book about the “Suicide Belt” in the…
According to a recent study co-authored by Harvard Pop Center-affiliated faculty members Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM, and Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH, more TV viewing (and among racial/ethnic minority children, the presence of a bedroom TV) was associated…
Three Harvard Pop Center-affiliated researchers, Yerby Fellow Mariana Arcaya, ScD, and faculty members Mary C. Waters, PhD, and S.V. Subramanian, PhD, have provided the first natural experimental data on urban sprawl and body mass index (BMI).…
Last Spring, RWJF alums Katie McLaughlin and Margaret Sheridan were in the middle of a study on trauma that, like so many of its kind, relied upon artificial situations created in a lab. But in the middle of this study, a real-life trauma occurred:…
Harvard Pop Center-affiliated faculty member Matthew Gilman, MD, SM, has co-authored a study that examines the relationship between duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding and pre-adolescent eating attitudes.
A recent article in Chicago Magazine highlights the research of Andrew Papachristos, PhD, a former scholar in the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program who was at the Harvard Pop Center from 2010-2012, on the relationship amongst non-fatal…
Harvard Pop Center Faculty Steering Committee Member SV Subramanian, PhD, Professor of Population Health and Geography at HSPH, has co-authored a study that has confirmed findings from high income countries showing a high prevalence of asthma in men in a…
Pop Center-affiliated faculty member Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, Professor of Social Epidemiology and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH, and former RWJF scholar Amy Non who was at the Pop Center from 2010 – 2012, have…