Seminars & Events

Group of people attending a seminar at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is proud to organize & support numerous seminars, conferences, & other events as a means to disseminate research & partner with other educational institutions & community organizations.

Pop Center Events

Our virtual seminars have concluded for the spring, and will resume in the fall, 2021.

Recent publications & news

Op-ed: How the “darker, unsettling narrative” of extreme racist hatred can shed light on what is “average”

June 22, 2021
This op-ed in the Toronto Star penned by former Harvard Bell Fellow Fahad Razak, MD, and contributor Lisa Berkman, PhD, explores the concept that what is viewed as extreme within a population may shed light on the average. Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash
Graduate Student Affiliate In Jeong Hwang wins prestigious award for research paper

June 17, 2021
In Jeong Hwang, a doctoral student in sociology at Harvard University, has been awarded a first place prize from Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan for her Master’s-level paper titled “Grandparenthood, Grandparenting, and Working Longer: Do the Genders of Grandparent and of Grandchild’s Parent Matter?” Congratulations, In Jeong … Continue reading “Graduate Student Affiliate In Jeong Hwang wins prestigious award for research paper”
Christina Cross in The Harvard Gazette: “Why living in a two-parent home isn’t a cure-all for Black students”

June 9, 2021
Harvard Pop Center Postdoctoral Fellow Christina Cross, PhD, has penned an op-ed in The Harvard Gazette in which she shares her forthcoming research on why a two-parent household is not a panacea for better educational outcomes for low-income Black students. Dr. Cross points to President Biden’s proposed American Families Plan as an example of a … Continue reading “Christina Cross in The Harvard Gazette: “Why living in a two-parent home isn’t a cure-all for Black students””
Mass vaccination campaign in India may have contributed to spike in cases

June 8, 2021
Professor S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, has authored a comment in The Lancet Global Health in which he cautions that the mass vaccination campaign in India may have contributed to the recent increase in COVID-19 cases there. He urges leadership in India to rethink its vaccination strategy to reduce virus spread by preventing overcrowding and … Continue reading “Mass vaccination campaign in India may have contributed to spike in cases”
Sung S. Park in NYT “Family Caregivers Feel the Pandemic’s Weight”

May 21, 2021
Harvard Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work, Sung S. Park, PhD, shares findings of her study published in The Journals of Gerontology on the differences in mental and physical health among non-caregivers, short-term caregivers, and long-term caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic in this New York Times piece.

Seminars & Events

Pop Center Events

Our virtual seminars have concluded for the spring, and will resume in the fall, 2021.

Op-ed: How the “darker, unsettling narrative” of extreme racist hatred can shed light on what is “average”

Graduate Student Affiliate In Jeong Hwang wins prestigious award for research paper

Christina Cross in The Harvard Gazette: “Why living in a two-parent home isn’t a cure-all for Black students”

Mass vaccination campaign in India may have contributed to spike in cases

Sung S. Park in NYT “Family Caregivers Feel the Pandemic’s Weight”

News from the School

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