Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Reopens after Renovations

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies celebrated the completion of extensive renovations of its locations at 9 Bow Street and 22 Plympton Street, Cambridge, on Tuesday, October 7.

The Center is now headed by HSPH Professor Lisa Berkman, former chair of the School's Department of Society, Human Development, and Health.

Tours of the renovated buildings were followed by a program at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge. The theme of the program was "Exploring the Dynamic Links Between Social and Environmental Conditions and Population Health."

The program included welcoming remarks from Dean Barry R. Bloom. There were also lectures on "Recent Portraits of American Mortality" by Samuel Preston, Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania; "Social and Labor Force Interventions Needed to Improve Population Health" by Berkman; and "Global Demographic Change and Its Economic Consequences" by David Bloom, chair of the HSPH Department of Global Health and Population.