Exploratory Workshops
Overview
Through a competitive application process, the Harvard Pop Center funds exploratory or themed workshops developed by it faculty members as a means of aiding in the advancement of emerging population study fields. Each winter we invite our members to submit proposals for one-day workshops to be held at the Pop Center in the upcoming year. Topics are derived from a number of disciplines - global health, demography, economics, biology, sociology, social epi, etc. The workshops are open to the Harvard community at large with the aim of attracting both senior scientists as well as young, independent researchers. The relatively small scale (in terms of people involved) of the sessions provide an ideal platform for focus on a specific topic and for all participants to contribute to discussions, as well as plan follow-up collaborative work and possibly even grant submissions.
Please contact Laura Price if you have questions about exploratory workshop funding.
Past Workshops (2012):
Monday, June 11 – “Longitudinal Study of the Social, Economic and Health Consequences of Natural Disasters.” Faculty convener: Mary C. Waters, PhD, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard
Thursday, September 13 – “Universal Health Coverage: Challenges, Measurements, and Evaluation Strategies.” Faculty convener: Chunling Lu, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Friday, September 28 – “Is There Compression of Morbidity? Evidence and Consequences.” Faculty conveners: Subu Subramanian, PhD, Professor of Population Health and Geography, HSPH and Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, PhD, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Tuesday, October 23 – “Advancing the Research Infrastructure for Cross-National Comparative Research on Social Inequalities in Health.” Faculty convener: Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology, Harvard
Wednesday, October 24 – “Exploring the Causal Links Between Education and Mortality,” Faculty conveners: Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, RWJF Health & Society Scholar at Harvard and Esther Friedman, PhD, PhD, RWJF Health & Society Scholar at Harvard
Date TBD – “New Evidence on the Health Impacts of Improved Cookstoves.” Faculty conveners: Rema Hanna, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Goverment and Margaret McConnell, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health & Economics, Harvard School of Public Health
If you have questions about exploratory workshops, please contact Laura Price, Program Director, at lprice@hsph.harvard.edu.