Friday Luncheon Seminars
The Harvard Pop Center and the Program on the Global Demography of Aging are pleased to sponsor a Friday Luncheon Seminar series focused on salient issues in population health, demography, and economics. These informal gatherings serve as opportunities for researchers to garner important feedback from others working in similar areas.
We offer a mix of presentations – from standard research dissemination from Pop Center members to work-in-progress sessions by junior scholars to research methodology seminars by our staff.
Sessions are scheduled on Fridays from 12:30 – 1:30 at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, unless otherwise noted. Lunch is provided.
All faculty and students are invited to attend. If you would like to present at a Friday lunch session, please contact Maria Joy at mjoy@hsph.harvard.edu
Winter/Spring 2013 Schedule
***CANCELED- February 1 – “Approaches to the Assessment of the Social Vulnerability of Adolescents in KwaZulu-Natal” presented by Kelly Hallman, senior associate, The Population Council
February 8 – “Neighborhood Context in Youth Physical Activity,” presented by Roman Pabayo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
February 15 – Presenter: Elina Pradhan, master’s candidate, department of global health and population, Harvard School of Public Health
February 22 – “Evaluating Competing Explanations for an Association between Income Inequality and Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States,” presented by Guy Harling, doctoral candidate, department of society, human development and health, Harvard School of Public Health
March 1 – “Spillover Effects of the Great Recession on Health,” presented by: Jacob Mariana Arcaya, ScD candidate, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
March 8 – “Maternal Mortality in Nepal: Understanding the Decline and Identifying Approaches for Further Reductions,” presented by: Corrina Moucheraud, doctoral candidate, department of global health and population, Harvard School of Public Health
March 15 – “(In)Flexible Work Schedules and Smoking: Preliminary results from the Work, Family and Health Network,” presented by: David Hurtado, doctoral candidate, department of society, human development and health, Harvard School of Public Health
April 5 – “Is takeaway food environment exposure associated with takeaway consumption and body weight? Evidence from UK and US studies of adults and children,” presented byTom Burgoine, career development fellow, Centre for Diet and Activity Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge
*** April 12 RESCHEDULED to Monday, April 15 - ”Using Psychophysiological Methods to Explore Effects of Sociocultural Racial Stressors on Stress Reactivity and Executive Functioning among US Born Black and White Young Adults”, presented by: Courtney Cogburn, RWJF Health & Society Scholar, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
April 19 - RESCHEDULED to Friday, May 10 – ”Education Policy in the US and Adolescent Health,” presented by Sam Liu, PhD, research associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
April 26 - “Preventing Obesity and Improving Diet Through Public Policy,” presented by Christina Roberto, RWJF Health & Society Scholar, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
May 3 - “Cash Transfers and Teen Pregnancy in South Africa: Evidence from Natural Experiments,” presented by: Jacob Bor, ScD candidate, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
May 10 – “Education Policy in the US and Adolescent Health,” presented by Sam Liu, PhD, Research Associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies