CURRENT PROJECTS (listed in alpha-order by PI)
Project Title: Archiving the Occupational Cohorts in the Work, Family & Health Network
PI: Lisa Berkman, PhD, Thomas Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Funder: National Institute on Aging
Summary: This project will archive and make accessible unique datasets that comprise the Work, Family, and Health Study; products will incorporate the multi-level nature of the WFHN, conform to international standards of data documentation, and include user-friendly meta-data tools.
Project Title: Social Protection, Work and Family Strain: Cumulative Disadvantage Effects in the US and Europe
PI: Lisa Berkman, PhD, Thomas Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Summary: The study has multiple aims: 1) describe the distribution of work-family strain for females born 1920-1960 in the US and EU; 2) assess the differential toxicity of work-family strain on CVD risk behaviors and biomarkers, incidence of stroke and heart disease, CVD mortality, and life expectancy in the US and Europe; 3) assess whether distributions of the toxicity of work-family strain explain geographic and temporal variations in CVD and life expectancy, and 4) assess impacts of trends in work-family strain on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in the US and Europe.
Project Title: Can Microfinance Improve Health Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from India
PI: Rohini Pande, PhD, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Summary: The project uses a rigorous experimental method to measure the impact of microfinance on health and aging, providing valuable information to policymakers for use in allocation of resources among development programs.