Social determinants of health

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman shares findings from the Work, Family & Health Network intervention study with Robin Young in this NPR story that aired on Here & Now. This news story, “Are American Workplace Policies Stuck in the…

Watch the video of “What Shapes Health,” presented by the Harvard Chan School, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR. Read about this panel presentation in the Harvard Gazette.

Harvard Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar alum Esther Friedman, PhD, is lead author on a study published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine that found that while adults who experienced childhood socioeconomic adversity had…

Harvard Pop Center faculty members Laura Kubzansky, PhD, Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, and M. Maria Glymour, PhD, have co-authored a study published in American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics that revisits Mendelian…

Harvard Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar program alum Margaret A. Sheridan, PhD, has co-authored a study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development that explores how genetic susceptibility interacts with…

Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Rourke O’Brien, PhD, has authored a Short Report in Social Science & Medicine based on evidence from a nationally representative survey. The researcher found that respondents in the experimental group…

Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Jason Block, MD, comments in this livescience article on the impact of restaurant calorie labeling.

In this Op-Ed in the LA Times, Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Rourke O’Brien shares some findings from a national survey he conducted on bias against the disabled.

Pop Center faculty member Gunther Fink talks about reducing neonatal mortality in a featured story on the Harvard Chan School’s website.