Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a member of the Harvard Pop Center’s Steering Committee, is featured on WGBH’s Innovation Hub and discusses whether technology has fueled the health care crisis.
Matt Wray, former RWJF Scholar at Pop Center, on his upcoming book on the “Suicide Belt” in American West
Matt Wray, PhD, former RWJF Health & Society Scholar at Harvard Pop Center, and current associate professor of sociology at Temple University, is interviewed in The Society Pages on his upcoming book about the “Suicide Belt” in the American West.
“Chicago Gun Violence: Big Numbers, But a Surprisingly Small Network”
A recent article in Chicago Magazine highlights the research of Andrew Papachristos, PhD, a former scholar in the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program who was at the Harvard Pop Center from 2010-2012, on the relationship amongst non-fatal gunshot victims in Chicago.
Buxton’s research on sleep and work referenced in Forbes
Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Sleep Medicine and Pop Center researcher Orfeu Buxton was referenced in this Forbes article on the importance of sleep, particularly as it impacts our performance at work.
Economic growth no cure for child undernutrition
As reported in this HSPH release, an article in the Harvard Gazette and this NPR blog, a large study published in The Lancet Global Health, co-authored by Pop Center faculty member S V Subramanian and former PGDA Fellow Sebastian Vollmer, finds that, contrary to widely held beliefs, economic growth has little to no effect on the nutritional status of the world’s poorest children. “They [the findings] emphasize,” said Subramanian, “that…
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Pande quoted in The Times of India article on high level of air pollution in Ludhiana
Rohini Pande, PhD, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Pop Center faculty member, was quoted in this article in The Times of India on the health worries associated with the air pollution being twice as high in the city of Ludhiana as recommended by the World Health Organization.
Papachristos’ Study on Key Role of Networks in Gun Violence featured in Yale Daily News
A recent article in the Yale Daily News highlights the findings of a study co-authored by Andrew Papachristos, PhD, a scholar in the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program at the Pop Center from 2010-2012, which reveals that networks play a key role in gun violence and how this insight could lead to improved gun violence prevention programs.
Block comments on Latin America’s lead in fight against junk foods
Jason Block, MD, Assistant Professor, Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Pop Center faculty member, is quoted in this Guardian article titled “Latin America leads the fight against junk food with the US on the sidelines.”
Welcome to our Incoming Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellow
We’re pleased to welcome in fall 2014 Germana Henry Leyna, MD, PhD, as our next Mortimer Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Leyna is a lecturer in Epidemiology at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania. As a fellow, she will investigate the influence of migration on risk factors to non-communicable diseases.
Welcome to our Next Cohort of Bell Postdoctoral Fellows
We’re pleased to announce the names of the two incoming Bell Postdoctoral Fellows here at the Harvard Pop Center. We look forward to their arrival this fall: Phillip Hessel (London School of Economics) – Demography Molly Rosenberg (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill) – Epidemiology