Name: Social Demography Seminar with Ichiro Kawachi
Start: 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-02-04T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Online seminar

Friday Seminar with Ben Seligman

Ben Seligman, PhD, MD, geriatrics attending/research fellow at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, will present “Frailty and aging worldwide.” Registration link will be posted soon.

Friday Lunch Seminar with Holly Hummer

Holly Hummer, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, will present “Pathways to non-parenthood: Insights from qualitative data.” Closed audience – invitees will receive registration info. via an email.

Friday Lunch Seminar with Yanyue Wang

Yanyue Wang (Adelina), PhD, post-doctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), will present “The impact of alternative types of elder care providers: Stratified IV analysis with machine learning using nursing home exits.” Registration link will be posted soon.

Friday Lunch Seminar with Nidhiya Menon

Nidhiya Menon, PhD, professor, department of economics, International Business School, Brandeis University, will present “Impact of pollution from coal on the anemic status of children and women: Evidence from India.” Registration link will be posted soon.

Friday Lunch Seminar with Aayush Khadka

Aayush Khadka, PhD candidate in population health sciences (Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) will present “Prenatal air pollution exposure and pregnancy loss in the United States.” Registration link will be posted soon.

Friday Seminar with Anna Grummon

Anna Grummon, PhD, MSPH, Bell Fellow at Harvard Pop Center, will present “Do calorie labeling laws spur product reformulation? A longitudinal analysis of supermarket foods.” Closed audience – invitees will receive registration info. via an email.

Friday Seminar with Enryka Christopher and Tasdik Hasan

Enryka Christopher, research assistant, Harvard Pop Center, and Tasdik Hasan, MBBS MPH PGDDM MSc (GMH) PhD candidate, project director at The Johns Hopkins University, will present “Puff or pass: Do social media and social interactions influence smoking behaviour of university students? A cross-sectional mixed methods study from Dhaka, Bangladesh.” Closed audience – invitees will receive … Continue reading “Friday Seminar with Enryka Christopher and Tasdik Hasan”

Friday Lunch Seminar – ONLINE – Meagan Farrell

Meagan Farrell, PhD, research associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; project director, HAALSI Dementia Study, will present “Language skills, life experience, and cognitive reserve in aging South Africans.” This is a closed audience event; invites with links to register will be emailed to invitees.

Friday Lunch Seminar – ONLINE – Sung Park

Sung Park, PhD, Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, will present “Racial and ethnic disparities in work and cognition.” This is a closed audience event; invites with links to register will be emailed to invitees.

Friday Lunch Seminar – ONLINE – Darina Bassil

Darina Bassil, PhD, MPH, research associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HAALSI Dementia Project) will present “Incidence of dementia in cancer survivors: Evidence from a large UK population cohort study.” This is a closed audience event; invites with links to register will be emailed to invitees.

Upcoming Online Seminars at the Harvard Pop Center

Recent publications & news

When it comes to risk factors for COVID-19 mortality, simulation study finds social determinants of health on par with diabetes

January 25, 2021
To compensate for there being little data available on the relationship between COVID-19 deaths and social determinants of health, Harvard Pop Center faculty members Ben Seligman and David Bloom, along with their colleague Maddalena Ferranna, have published a simulation study in PLOS Medicine that finds that individual-level social determinants of health (e.g., nonwhite race/ethnicity, income below … Continue reading “When it comes to risk factors for COVID-19 mortality, simulation study finds social determinants of health on par with diabetes”
Children with complicated births found to be at increased risk of eviction

January 21, 2021
A study finds that babies who were low-birth weight, experienced a lengthy hospital stay, or were born prematurely were at increased risk of experiencing eviction later in childhood. Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa F. Berkman and Visiting Scientist Mariana Arcaya are authors, as well as Gabriel L Schwartz, Kathryn M Leifheit, and Jarvis T Chen. … Continue reading “Children with complicated births found to be at increased risk of eviction”
Sara Bleich named as senior advisor for COVID-19 in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

January 21, 2021
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Sara Bleich, a researcher committed to providing evidence to help shape and drive policies aimed at preventing obesity and diet-related diseases, will now serve as part of the Biden-Harris administration. Learn more about her staff appointment with the USDA. Congratulations, Dr. Bleich!
Does alcohol consumption play a role in the spread of HIV among older adults in South Africa?

January 5, 2021
A study by HAALSI researchers finds that increased and more frequent alcohol consumption among older adults in South Africa is linked with higher levels of sexual risk taking, patterns of behavior that could contribute to the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Claudia Goldin is first woman to receive Nemmers Prize in Economics

December 11, 2020
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Claudia Goldin, PhD, has been awarded the 2020 Nemmers Prize in Economics by Northwestern University. Dr. Goldin was selected to receive this prize “for her groundbreaking insights into the history of the American economy, the evolution of gender roles and the interplay of technology, human capital and labor markets.” Congratulations, … Continue reading “Claudia Goldin is first woman to receive Nemmers Prize in Economics”