Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams and Lecturer Jeffrey Sánchez pen op-ed in The Washington Post that details how racism is a public health crisis.
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Cindy H. Liu, PhD, and colleagues have published a study in Psychiatry Research that found that nearly half of the U.S. young adults (18-30) in … Continue reading “Mental health status check of young adults in U.S. during first wave of COVID-19 pandemic”
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, is featured in The Big 3, a Q & A format that explores topical issues in public health. Social Epidemiologist and Professor … Continue reading “Nancy Krieger takes on the Harvard Chan School’s Big 3 in response to killing of George Floyd and national protests”
Our Bell Fellow Leslie Adams, PhD, has been awarded two grants that will help to fuel her research aimed at reducing inequalities in the use of mental health care services … Continue reading “Harvard Bell Fellow Leslie Adams awarded two grants related to suicide prevention among Black men”
The Center for Population and Development Studies joins other Harvard research centers in the condemnation of the vicious murder of George Floyd and all racist violence perpetrated by law enforcement … Continue reading “Harvard University Centers Condemn Recent Police Violence in the United States”
Harvard Bell Fellow Anna H. Grummon, PhD, and her colleague Marissa G. Hall, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, have published a meta-analysis in PLOS Medicine examining the effects … Continue reading “Warning: The findings of this analysis could help to shape public policies that require warning labels on sugary drinks”
Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate Ethan Raker! He is the first sociology student to be awarded the Ana Aguado Prize for best doctoral student paper from the … Continue reading “Ethan Raker awarded prize for best doctoral student paper”
To better direct resources (temporary housing, PPE and testing) to those most vulnerable during the next wave of COVID-19, according to Jarvis Chen, one of the authors of the Harvard … Continue reading “What’s one (big) reason that it’s important to know which groups have been hardest hit by the coronavirus?”
Harvard Bell Fellow Anna Grummon, PhD, and colleagues (including Harvard Pop Center faculty members Jason Block and Sara Bleich) evaluate the ethical strengths and weaknesses of food and beverage warnings … Continue reading “Ethical considerations of food and beverage warnings; weighing the pros and cons”
Data from a longitudinal study of survivors of Hurricane Katrina could be helpful in predicting the more indirect health stressors of a pandemic. Ethan Raker, a Harvard Pop Center graduate … Continue reading “Lessons from Hurricane Katrina on less obvious possible health impacts of COVID-19”
