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.
Professors David Bloom and David Canning, along with Rashmi Dayalu (all associated with the Program on Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) at Harvard, and Boston University Assistant Professor Mahesh Karra, have released the results of the first round of their survey focused on social distancing behavior and COVID-19 symptoms. Are older people practicing social distancing more than younger people? Do some symptoms influence behavior more than others? See the results…
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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.
There are dozens of sessions taking place today, and here are some that highlight affiliates and some close colleagues of the Harvard Pop Center community. 8:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Mental Health Giacomo Pasini will be presenting a paper co-authored by Mauricio Avendano and Lisa Berkman 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Early Life Exposures and Health Over the Lifecourse A paper titled “Analysis of Attained Height and Diabetes Among 554,122 Adults…
A Harvard Pop Center working paper by Jarvis Chen and Nancy Krieger provides critical public health monitoring data—missing until now—on the unequal economic and social burden of COVID-19 in the United States. The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) Working Paper Series provides a flexible and timely outlet for affiliates to publish their work in progress to the scholarly community in an open-access form.Â
The 2020 PAA annual meeting has gone virtual. Today, there are two live sessions (both from 1:00–2:30 EST) that include Harvard Pop Center faculty member Alexandra Killewald (FLASH: Determinants of the Gender Pay Gap) and several speakers formerly associated with the Center including Xiana Bueno, Mahesh Karra, Eunsil Oh and Jocelyn Finlay (Flash: Politics and Policy Surrounding Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health). Check out the schedule of…
Three researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center—Mariana Arcaya, Ethan J. Raker, and Mary C. Waters—have published a review in the Annual Review of Sociology that concludes with their concerns about the likelihood of more severe natural disasters due to climate change in the future, and the need for innovative concepts and methods to cope with these environmental and societal challenges. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Flickr
Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle A. Williams, ScD, has co-authored a Perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine that calls for more longitudinal studies in aging populations to better understand the “mechanics of immunity” in this vulnerable, growing sector of our global community. Learn more in this news item by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Harvard Pop Center faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and visiting scientist Rockli Kim, ScD, are among the authors of a study published in the JAMA Open Network that could help to identify high-risk pregnancies and potentially reduce the neonatal mortality rate in India. Read the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health website.
The Chicago Sun Times reports on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation teleconference with Professor David Williams, PhD, during which he explained how the coronavirus is bringing to light the health disparities that “reflect longstanding policies that have created pervasive social and economic inequalities in the United States.”