When women give birth while in prison, how do their children fare?
Research by Bethany Kotlar, PhD ’24, follows children born to incarcerated mothers for the first three years of their lives.
Abortion restrictions raise concerns about maternal mortality risk, particularly for Black women
Given that nearly 40% of abortion patients are Black women, concerns have been raised that new restrictions on the procedure will result in more deaths in that group.
Could breastfeeding explain disparities in sudden infant deaths?
Melissa Bartick, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an MPH student at Harvard Chan School, studied whether not breastfeeding could be one possible explanation for demographic disparities in sudden unexpected infant deaths.
Family functioning during pregnancy may affect fetal brain development
How a family functions and manages conflict during pregnancy may influence the development of cortical white matter and subcortical volumes in the fetus and could be associated with brain characteristics that underlie behavioral problems later in life, according…
Students gain real-world public health experience in CDC evaluation course
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students got a crash course in program evaluation and gained valuable real-world experience at public health agencies during Winter Session in January.
