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.
In certain occupations in India, men at greater risk than women for asthma
Harvard Pop Center Faculty Steering Committee Member SV Subramanian, PhD, Professor of Population Health and Geography at HSPH, has co-authored a study that has confirmed findings from high income countries showing a high prevalence of asthma in men in a number of occupational categories and sub categories, with no evidence of increased risks, however, for women in the same occupations.
Kawachi co-authors paper on effects of stress at work and home on two important contributors to cardiovascular disease
Pop Center-affiliated faculty member Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, Professor of Social Epidemiology and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH, and former RWJF scholar Amy Non who was at the Pop Center from 2010 – 2012, have co-authored a study that investigates the effects of stress at work and at home on inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, two important contributors to the development of cardiovascular disease.
Killewald explores whether motherhood penalty is necessarily larger for low-wage women
Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Alexandra Killewald, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, challenges the conclusion of Budig and Hodges (2010) that the motherhood penalty is larger for low-wage women by using an unconditional versus a conditional quantile regression model in a recently published study.
Can lay community health workers be trained to use mobile phone app to find cases of prenatal depression?
Former RWJF Scholar Alexander Tsai, PhD, MD has co-authored a study that explores whether lay community health workers in South Africa could be trained to conduct case finding using a mobile phone application to evaluate whether a woman is suffering from postnatal depression.
Team of Harvard Pop Center researchers publish paper on impact of unemployment on smoking and drinking
A team of Harvard Pop Center researchers, including current Yerby Fellow Mariana Arcaya, and Pop Center-affiliated faculty members Maria Glymour, Ichiro Kawachi, and SV Subramanian, have published a paper in Social Science & Medicine that looks at individual and spousal unemployment as predictors of smoking and drinking behavior.
Can dependence of dementia patients be delayed?
Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Maria Glymour has published a study that explores the possibility of delaying the dependence (e.g. needing to be institutionalized) that is often associated with dementia patients by adjusting modifiable risk factors.
Thurston examines link between MetS and subclinical atherosclerosis
Rebecca Thurston, a former RWJF scholar at the Harvard Pop Center, has co-authored a study (based on participants in The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation) recently published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, that examines the association between MetS (the metabolic syndrome) and subclinical atherosclerosis, and the role that race/ethnicity in midlife women may play.
Media coverage of SV Subramanian’s work
Last week we featured a new study co-authored by Pop Center faculty member SV Subramanian, which found that economic growth has little to no effect on the nutritional status of the world’s poorest children. The study was subsequently discussed on NPR’s health news site, Shots, and in The New York Times, where Paul Krugman quoted Subramanian in a blog post on economic growth and income distribution.
Gary King looks at Google Flu Trends
Its information-gathering abilities are no doubt impressive, but how good is Google at tracking cases of influenza? Pop Center faculty member Gary King, who recently co-authored a paper critiquing the accuracy of Google Flu Trends. A subsequent New York Times article discussed King’s paper and raised interesting questions about the strengths and limitations of big data.