Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate Ethan Raker! He is the first sociology student to be awarded the Ana Aguado Prize for best doctoral student paper from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP). Ethan’s paper, which was published in Demography earlier this year, examines the lasting demographic impact of natural disasters by focusing on severe tornadoes over a span of thirty years.
To better direct resources (temporary housing, PPE and testing) to those most vulnerable during the next wave of COVID-19, according to Jarvis Chen, one of the authors of the Harvard Pop Center working paper recently published using state public health data obtained by The Boston Globe. Listen to Dr. Chen being interviewed on NPR, or read the summary.
Globally and nationally, the gender divide is clear; more men than women are dying of the coronavirus. The Boston Globe spoke with Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, to uncover why Massachusetts is experiencing a different trend.
A Harvard Pop Center working paper reveals the findings of an analysis of State-provided public health data by Harvard T. H. Chan School researchers Jarvis Chen, Pamela Waterman, and Nancy Krieger. The Boston Globe obtained the data and shared it with the researchers in order to generate this novel analysis. Read more in The Boston Globe, and in this Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health news item. Graphic…
Professor Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, spoke with NPR about a simulation that the Harvard Global Health Institute developed and published that generates approximate, state-specific estimates meant to serve as a guide.
Dean Michelle Williams and Arianna Huffington have teamed up to write this op-ed in USA Today in light of the tragic suicide by an ER doctor in New York, as well as the ongoing struggles faced by health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tune in to hear Mary Water‘s perspective on how some of the positive qualities in human nature can rise to the surface (and surprise us!) when we’re faced with a disaster.
Anna Grummon, PhD, MSPH, is the recipient of the highest level of graduate student award bestowed by her alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Behavioral scientist Grummon received the 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award, Social Sciences for her dissertation titled Individual- and Population-Level Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Health Warnings. As a postdoc at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Dr. Grummon is furthering her research…
Public health policy professor Sara Bleich makes the case in this interview for why additional federal funding for schools needs to be part of future relief legislation, as well as increased SNAP benefits.
Postdoc Fellow Christina Cross, PhD, is this year’s recipient of the PAA Dorothy S. Thomas award for best demography paper by a doctoral student. Christina is the first African American recipient in the 40-year history of this award. Tune in on YouTube for the award presentation and to hear from Christina herself as she accepts the award.