We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Babatunde Osotimehin, the director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and a staunch supporter of the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls around the globe. Osotimehin had a special connection to the Harvard Pop Center, having been a senior visiting fellow in the late ’90s who would return on special occasions to address critical global challenges connected to…
Job satisfaction is higher among nurses who report better safety practices in hospital units
Harvard Pop Center faculty member S V Subramanian (Subu), PhD, is an author on a paper published in the Journal of Nursing Management that explores the relationship between hospital unit safety practices and job satisfaction among nurses. Lead author, David Hurtado, was a doctoral student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Does timing of socioeconomic status (SES) impact late-life memory function and decline differently?
Researchers have found that early- and later-life SES has an impact on late-life memory in differing ways. The study is published in the American Journal of Epidemiology by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health doctoral student Jessica Marden, along with Harvard Pop Center faculty members Ichiro Kawachi and M. Maria Glymour.
Study reveals benefits, challenges of training health researchers in LMICs on how to better address health inequities
The INDEPTH Training & Research Centres of Excellence (INTREC) collaboration — an EU consortium led by Umeå Centre for Global Health Research in which Harvard participated — aimed at strengthening the capacities of health researchers in LMICs who assess social determinants of health is the subject of this study published in BMC Public Health.
Proposed AHCA could put health coverage for young adults at risk
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Mark Schuster, MD, is an author on an upcoming paper published in the journal Health Services Research that suggests that health insurance that includes an individual mandate more effectively keeps young adults insured. Learn more in this press release.
Lawrence Bobo is inducted as a W.E.B. DuBois Fellow
Lisa Berkman receives 3rd Annual CAWF Mentoring Award at Harvard Chan School
Congratulations to our director Lisa Berkman on being honored with the Mentoring Award by the Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Learn more in this featured news story on the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health website.
Hypertension well managed for those older South Africans whose health was monitored by long-term surveillance program
A study just out in the Journal of Hypertension co-authored by Harvard Pop Center faculty members Stephen Tollman, Till Bärnighausen, Joshua Salomon, and Bell Fellow Xavier Gomez-Olive points to the potential effectiveness of a local, long-term health surveillance program for managing hypertension, the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The results of the study shed light on which members of the population should be receiving even more attention.
Pop Center faculty members Killewald and Pager named as Radcliffe Institute Fellows
Congratulations to Harvard sociologists Alexandra Killewald and Devah Pager who will be joining the 2017-2018 cohort of incoming Radcliffe Institute Fellows.
For younger workers, does occupational certification pay off?
Does earning an occupational certificate (e.g., those issued by trade, professional and industry organizations) lead to higher earnings among younger workers? A study published in Social Science Research by Harvard Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work Kyle Albert, PhD, suggests that certification attainment has labor market value and is associated with higher earnings.