Rohini Pande, PhD, director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Evidence for Policy Design and Harvard Pop Center faculty member, is co-author of a special article published in Economic & Political Weekly that reveals the deadly impact of the air quality for 660 million residents in India, and outlines government policies that could help to reduce pollution and increase life expectancy. The findings of the study are explored in this vox.com article.
Rohini Pande addresses root cause of violence against women in South Asia
In this Harvard Magazine Forum piece, Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, shares her perspective on steps that can be taken, both short and long term, in response to the rash of violence against women in South Asia.
Gita Sen on importance of strong public health system & UHC in Bangladesh
Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Gita Sen, PhD, was interviewed by Bangladesh’s first Internet newspaper, bdnews24.com, on the importance of a strong public health system to adopt universal health coverage (UHC) to protect people from slipping into poverty.
Subu Subramanian speaks at UNICEF South Asia conference “Stop Stunting”
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Subu Subramanian, PhD, spoke in New Delhi at a conference on stunting sponsored by UNICEF South Asia. Subramanian’s appearance at the conference was featured in a HSPH news brief, a New York Times article, and in a video by UNICEF.
New indices based on local distributions of wealth may offer more accurate insights into health inequalities in India
Recent Bell Fellow Daniel Corsi, PhD, has co-authored a study published in PLoSOne that introduces a new approach for analyzing nationally representative household survey data. By analyzing local distributions of wealth, Corsi and his colleagues hope to offer wealth index scores that will serve as more valid indicators of wealth and will correlate well with health outcomes.
Study finds multiple-method users of temporary contraceptives more likely to discontinue use & have unintended pregnancy in Uttar Pradesh, India
While female sterilization continues to prevail as the most dominant family planning method provided and used in India, almost one in five contraceptive users in India employs a temporary method. Harvard Pop Center Research Scientist Livia Montana, PhD, and colleagues have published a study in BMC Public Health that explores the patterns of temporary method use among urban women from Uttar Pradesh, India with the goal of offering programmatic recommendations…
Novel sampling methodology for urban slum / non-slum areas using satellite data for eval of family planning program in India
Livia Montana, PhD, a Harvard Pop Center senior research scientist, co-authored a paper published in Spatial Demography, that introduces a novel sampling approach to delineate slum and non-slum areas using satellite data in order to evaluate family planning services in six cities of Uttar Pradesh, India. The methods were developed as part of the impact evaluation of the Urban Health Initiative (UHI), which is dedicated to increasing access to high-quality…
District-level look at fertility change and gender bias in India
Visiting scientist Sanjay K. Mohanty, PhD, has published a paper that expands fertility change and gender bias research in India to the district level. This new research, published in the Journal of Biosocial Science, suggests that a comprehensive strategy to reduce the gender differential in child mortality and curb sex-selective abortion to improve the child sex ratio would be helpful in India.
SV Subramanian co-author in study that examines frequency of fish intake and diabetes among adult Indians
SV Subramanian (Subu) is co-author of a recently published study that explores the role that choice of foods plays in diabetes prevention in a developing country.
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.
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