Finlay speaks on expert panel at United Nations on population & sustainable development

Harvard Pop Center’s Director of the Research Core Jocelyn Finlay, PhD, presented as a member of an expert panel on “Population, sustainable development, and the post-2015 development agenda” at the United Nations on January 22. The panel was assembled to prepare for the upcoming 48th session of the Commission on Population and Development in 2015, when the theme will be “Realizing the future we want: integrating population issues into sustainable development, including the post-2015 development…

Papachristos suggests ways to curb gun violence “epidemic” in Chicago in Huffington Post

Former Harvard RWJF Scholar Andrew Papachristos, PhD was lead author in a study in Social Science & Medicine that is highlighted in a Huffington Post article. Papachristos compares the majority of nonfatal gun violence in Chicago to a blood-borne pathogen transmitted within networks for specific reasons.

Employees with financial incentives more likely to participate in wellness programs

In this The St. Louis American article, Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Jason Block, MD, MPH,  comments on his new research that shows that a financial incentive can drastically increase employee participation in a health coach program, a wellness initiative that involves one-on-one phone calls with a personal health coach.