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VIDEO Lisa Berkman – Demography Is Not Destiny: Social Resilience in the 21st Century

Lisa Berkman, PhD
Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population,
Harvard School of Public Health

Children living on edge of malnutrition in India at greater risk of “food shocks” during national lockdowns to curb COVID-19

August 6, 2020
With one out of two children in India suffering from one form of malnutrition, there are many more who are hovering just above that threshold. The findings of this paper … Continue reading “Children living on edge of malnutrition in India at greater risk of “food shocks” during national lockdowns to curb COVID-19″
When trying to receive health care for depression, discrimination does not help

August 5, 2020
Our Bell Fellow Leslie Adams collaborated on this paper based on a qualitative component of a larger, mixed-methods, community-based participatory research study focused on understanding how health care discrimination influences … Continue reading “When trying to receive health care for depression, discrimination does not help”
Implementing a systemic approach to collection of data on trauma in Malawi

August 5, 2020
A published paper by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Kevin Croke, PhD, and his colleagues demonstrates that it’s possible to improve and streamline data collection on trauma in a developing … Continue reading “Implementing a systemic approach to collection of data on trauma in Malawi”
Learning lessons from Berkeley, CA: Analyzing roll out of nation’s first sugary beverage tax

July 31, 2020
Harvard Pop Center’s Bell Fellow Anna Grummon, PhD, is an author on this study published in the American Journal of Public Health that analyzes what factors helped to facilitate (and … Continue reading “Learning lessons from Berkeley, CA: Analyzing roll out of nation’s first sugary beverage tax”
Throwback Thursday: Taking another look at social investment policies and gender health equity (2019 study)

July 30, 2020
Our Associate Director Jason Beckfield, along with then Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate Katherine Morris and their colleague Clare Bambra, published a study in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community … Continue reading “Throwback Thursday: Taking another look at social investment policies and gender health equity (2019 study)”

VIDEO Lisa Berkman – Demography Is Not Destiny: Social Resilience in the 21st Century

Children living on edge of malnutrition in India at greater risk of “food shocks” during national lockdowns to curb COVID-19

When trying to receive health care for depression, discrimination does not help

Implementing a systemic approach to collection of data on trauma in Malawi

Learning lessons from Berkeley, CA: Analyzing roll out of nation’s first sugary beverage tax

Throwback Thursday: Taking another look at social investment policies and gender health equity (2019 study)

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