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For policy change in India, it really may take a village
Researchers at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) have been awarded a 2.2 million dollar grant by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health professor of population health and geography and HCPDS faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and HCPDS research associate Rockli Kim, ScD, are principal investigators (PIs) on the three-year project that aims to provide public policy makers…
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Public event in South Africa will showcase research on health and aging in Southern Africa
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) in South Africa, in partnership with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, will host an event titled Health and Ageing in Southern Africa: Addressing Inequities over the Life Course in Johannesburg on October 15, 2019 from 13:30-17:00. The program is open to the public and will showcase the latest research on health and aging emerging from the NIH-funded study Health and…
Harvard Pop Center welcomes new cadre of postdoc fellows
We are pleased to introduce the new postdoctoral fellows who have recently joined us. We are welcoming a new Bell Fellow, Anna Grummon, PhD, a behavioral scientist with a special focus on nutrition policies, as well as new Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work Sung S. Park, a sociologist who plans to explore the potential benefits and penalties of familial and job-specific circumstances on women’s labor force activities by race/ethnicity,…
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Sweetening the deal: Taxing a sweetened beverage by amount of sugar it contains could lead to health & economic gains
Anna Grummon, PhD, a Harvard Bell Fellow in the 2019-2021 cohort, is among the authors of an analysis published in the journal Science. The researchers conclude that health and economic gains could be better realized by taxing the sugar content of those beverages, rather than taxing the amount of liquid in the drinks. Learn more in this news post by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
“This experiment has failed:” Beth Truesdale on shifting the burden of security in retirement to individuals
Harvard Pop Center Research Associate Beth Truesdale, PhD, has penned a Letter to the Editor published in The Boston Globe that calls for strengthening Social Security and employer-based retirement plans. Beth is currently co-editing a volume titled Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of “Working Longer.” This project, which is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, gathers an interdisciplinary community of scholars to examine how changes in health,…
Optimistic outlook linked to greater, even “exceptional,” longevity
Laura Kubzansky and her colleagues have published a paper in PNAS that has furthered previous research on the link between optimism and better health to now find a relationship between optimism and greater longevity (up to 15% longer, on average) including increased odds of living to 85 years old or beyond. The findings have received much attention in the press… Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Psychology Today CNBC…
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Harvard Chan School reports: In India, population policy needs to go beyond the numbers alone
Harvard Pop Center faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, and student Pritha Chatterjee have penned an op-ed that is the subject of a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health news item.
Longitudinal study finds link between whole blood microRNAs and stroke
Joel Salinas, MD, is an author on a study that, using data from the Framingham Heart Study, revealed that a particular whole blood microRNA (miR-574-3p) expression was significantly lower in participants with chronic stroke, signaling the need for further research aimed at developing better diagnostic and treatment options for cerebrovascular disease.
Study finds racial disparities in hitting developmental milestones among young transgender women
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Sari Reisner, ScD, is an author on a study that examines what age young women develop and express their transgender identities, finding that Black & Latina transgender women begin disclosing their identity to others earlier than White transgender women. One reason that such developmental milestones are important to track is to potentially mitigate the risk of acquiring HIV and other STDs. The study has received…