Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Andrew Papachristos, PhD, comments on the importance of community involvement when it comes to the police’s fair use of social network data to lower gun violence in this New York Times op-ed.
Lisa Berkman streaming live on uptick in death rates of middle-aged white Americans on MPR Tues., Nov. 10
Join Kerri Miller of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. ET when she will talk with Lisa Berkman, PhD, director of the Harvard Pop Center, about the recent piece in the New York Times on the increase in deaths among middle-aged white Americans.
Lisa Berkman’s expertise on aging takes center stage as we prepare to live longer & our population grows
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman‘s expertise on aging societies and healthy aging is being called on as we prepare to live longer and grow our population to 9 billion. In the piece “Can You Get Smarter?” in today’s New York Times, Lisa comments on the impact of social networks on cognitive decline; today’s Harvard Gazette headline directs readers to the piece entitled “The Aging Game” in Harvard Public Health…
Harvard Pop Center researchers to receive award for article on innovative use of life course work-family profiles to predict mortality risk
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has named four researchers affiliated with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies as the recipients of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Awards for their paper published in the American Journal of Public Health on the innovative use of sequence analysis as a exposure assessment tool for life course research. Erika Sabbath, ScD, who is lead author on the study and was a visiting…
Paper by Bell Fellow Juli Simon Thomas Earns Her Status as Finalist for 2015 Kanter Award
Harvard Bell Fellow Juli Simon Thomas, PhD, is co-author on a paper that is one of five finalists (out of 2,500 articles published in 2014) for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. The paper, “Job Displacement among Single Mothers: Effects on Children’s Outcomes in Young Adulthood,” was published in the American Journal of Sociology. Congratulations to Juli on being a finalist for this international award!
Jha “brings global health home”
Director of Harvard Global Health Institute and Harvard Pop Center faculty member Ashish Jha, MD comments on the challenges, and benefits, of global health in today’s close knit world at a seminar celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Institute. Learn more in the Harvard Gazette.
Harvard Pop Center faculty among top 25 most productive researchers of health inequalities
Ichiro Kawachi, SV Subramanian (Subu), Nancy Krieger, and David R. Williams are among the top 25 most productive researchers in the field of health inequalities, according to a study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine. The four Harvard Pop Center faculty members have published 462 studies, in total, on health inequalities between 1966 – 2014. In addition, the study ranked Social Science & Medicine, with co-editors-in-chief Kawachi and…
Focused gun violence reduction program shown to be effective among gangs in Chicago
Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Andrew Papachristos, PhD, is lead author on a study published in Criminology & Public Policy that suggests that a focused approach, such as Chicago’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy (VRS), to reducing gun violence significantly reduced gun violence (especially gunshot victimization) among gangs. Papachristos has recently commented on the national spike in homicides in Time and inlandnews.com.
Gender norms at play in weakening female labor-force participation in India; gender quotas & training may help
Harvard Pop Center’s Executive Committee and faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, has co-authored an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times that explores why female labor-force participation is down in India despite economic growth, increasing educational attainment for girls, and decreased fertility rates.
Research Assistant Job Opening at Harvard Pop Center
We are hiring a Research Assistant at the Harvard Pop Center. Learn more about this full-time position.