How work and home environments shape health
Cassandra Okechukwu, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, studies how different environments—such as our homes and our workplaces—shape our health.
Okechukwu honored for work-family research
Cassandra Okechukwu, ScD ’08, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has received several awards for her research on work-family issues. The American Public Health Association’s Aging…
Working long hours linked to heavier drinking
Working long hours appears to drive people to drink more alcohol, according to an international study published January 13, 2015 in the journal BMJ (British Medical Journal). Scientists studied data on more than 430,000 people in 14 countries.…
HSPH welcomes health care journalists to Boston
March 22, 2013 — Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) helped welcome more than 750 reporters, editors, and news producers to Boston for the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference, held March 14-17, 2013. HSPH co-sponsored the…
Sleep problems and poverty: how socioeconomics impact our sleep and health
Coverage in Huffington Post featuring HSPH's Cassandra Okechukwu, September 4, 2012
Depression in nursing home workers linked to work-family stress
December 5, 2011 Financial strain, insufficient food often to blame A study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers, published November 17, 2011, in the American Journal of Public Health, shows that symptoms of depression are common among…
Poor pay linked to worker depression
Coverage in UPI, November 23, 2011, featuring HSPH's Cassandra Okechukwu
Challenges of eradicating malaria outlined at World Malaria Day Program at HSPH
May 10, 2011 -- Despite stepped up worldwide efforts to combat malaria over the last decade, increasing drug resistance, poor access to treatment and prevention regimens, and public apathy are among the reasons the disease remains one of the world’s…
