black deaths – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

June 22, 2018

Study finds police killings of unarmed black Americans negatively impact mental health of black Americans in general population

Faculty members Alex Tsai and David R. Williams are among the authors on a study in The Lancet that utilizes novel data on police killings of black Americans to reveal the spillover effects on those living in the same state. Learn more in The New York Times and on the study website. Photo: Stephen Melkisethian on Flickr

October 12, 2017

Calling all sports stats “geeks”

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger and Associate Director Jason Beckfield have penned this op-ed in nydailynews.com that calls for sports stats geeks to put their quantitative skills to use to improve U.S. stats on deaths and injuries due to law enforcement.