Improve education to boost global economy
Despite progress made in educational systems in recent decades, over 100 million children are not enrolled in primary or lower-secondary school, and many of those who do attend lack basic reading and writing skills, according to the World…
'Widowhood effect' greatest in first three months
New research led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that the so-called ‘widowhood effect’—an increased chance of dying after a spouse dies—is greatest in the first three months after the loss. The researchers found that widows…
Economic challenges contribute to rise in stillbirths among immigrants in Spain
Poor access to prenatal care, education cited as contributors November 15, 2013 — Immigrant women who live in regions of Spain with high unemployment rates are three times more likely to have stillborn infants than Spanish-born women living…
Poverty, disasters & health against all odds
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] The most powerful influences on population health are not the medical interventions that diagnose and treat disease. Rather, they are the broad social forces—war or peace, poverty or financial security, political oppression or fundamental…
Population visionary
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] When Roger Revelle took the helm of the new Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (known as the Pop Center) in 1964, he was already one of the world’s most eminent and eclectic…
Infographic: Then and now
We've come a long way since the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers opened its doors in 1913. Have a look at the changes in the US population and its health in the last hundred years. View expanded infographic.…
Painting a picture of older Africans
October 11, 2013 -- A large new study led by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (the Pop Center) aims to shed light on how people in Sub-Saharan Africa are faring as they age, given that…
Reclaiming childhood
Article in Harvard Magazine, November-December 2012 issue, featuring HSPH’s Theresa Betancourt
Painting the big picture on a Navajo reservation
November 1, 2012 -- Once upon a time, Anne Newland wanted to go to film school. But because life unfolds with its own logic, she instead became a doctor with the federal Indian Health Service (IHS). And shaped…
Researchers to examine the impact of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals
October 17, 2012 -- In the year 2000, the United Nations developed an ambitious plan to meet the needs of some of the world’s poorest people by setting out the Millennium Declaration. A year later, eight Millennium Development Goals,…
