Through our "Pop Center Seminars" the Center is committed to disseminating to the Harvard community and beyond the most recent and innovative research being conducted in our signature focal areas.
Location: Unless noted all seminars will take place at the Harvard Center for the Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, in Harvard Square.
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 PM.
Attendees: Open to all faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and students.
Advanced Readings: Reminders and any advanced readings will be sent out before each session.
No need to RSVP, however, if you have questions, please contact Claudette Agustin at cagustin@hsph.harvard.edu.
Winter/Spring 2010
February 8
"Education and Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya" presented by Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT.
February 22
"Social capital, social cohesion and population health: New directions" presented by Ichiro Kawachi, Chair, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
March 8
Title TBD - presented by Barbara Entwisle, Director of the Carolina Population Center, and Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
March 22
Title TBD - presented by James Banks, Professor of Economics, University Collage London.
April 5
"Spatio-Temporal Trends of Infant Mortality in Brazil" presented by Marcia Castro, Assistant Professor of Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH.
April 12
Title TBD - presented by Sara McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University.
May 3
Title TBD - presented by Teresa Seeman, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health.
May 10
Title TBD - presented by Mark Schuster, Chief, Division of General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston, and William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
May 17
Title TBD - presented by Alberto Palloni, Samuel Preston Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconson-Madison.