Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (Pop Center) is dedicated to understanding the dynamic interplay between global population health, demographic changes and the social and physical environment. We bring together scientists from across schools at Harvard and globally to make exciting advances in population research.

The Work of our Center... 

Supports an analytic and research platform that enables practitioners to work and report on large scale population based studies with rich depth and demographic data.

Connects numerous research centers across campus and around the world, thus creating a "community" that fosters collaboration and integration of intellectual capital.

Trains students at all levels to become leaders in population health by close collaboration and by way of the latest technologies in the selection, design, development, management, and dissemination of data.

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Check video clips of our researchers and events:

Watch Director Lisa Berkman discuss America's aging population, one of the Pop Center's primary research areas, on the PBS program "Open Mind."

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Upcoming events:

February 9 - "Getting Eating Disorders Prevention on the Public Health Agenda: A Strategic Approach to Prevention Science, Pipelines, and Workforce Training," presented by Bryn Austin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Children’s Hospital Boston.

February 10 - "The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Force Participation in Low- to Middle-Income Countries: Uncovering the Heterogeneity Across and Within Countries," presented by Jocelyn Finlay, PhD, Director of the Research, Computing and Data Analysis Core at the Pop Center.

February 13 - "Measuring and Visualizing Accessibility in Urban Areas: Revealing Invisible Spatial Structures in Public Health," presented by Kirk Goldsberry, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Center for Geographical Analysis and Assistant Professor of Geography at Michigan State University.