Name: Friday Lunch Seminar with Yanyue Wang
Start: 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Online seminar

Harvard Pop Center is hiring a Grants Manager

Would you like to put your finance and/or grants management experience to work for an interdisciplinary population research center? Learn more…

We’re hiring a Project Director for our NIA-funded flagship study HAALSI

Are you a research scientist with a PhD in demography, public health, epidemiology, or a related field who is interested in health and aging in a global context? The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, in partnership with the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, was awarded a P01 grant in 2013 from the … Continue reading “We’re hiring a Project Director for our NIA-funded flagship study HAALSI”

Harvard Pop Center is hiring a Research Assistant!

Are you interested in researching how the long-run effects of early-childhood circumstances and education affect income and health state transitions in older ages? Learn more about this opportunity to join our team…

Harvard Pop Center is hiring a Research Associate (HAALSI)

Interested in working on research projects involving dementia, cognitive functioning and aging studies? Learn more!

Harvard Pop Center is Hiring a Research Associate / Project Manager

Learn more about this opportunity to work on a new workplace & well-being initiative at HCPDS.

Research Assistant Job Opening at Harvard Pop Center

We are hiring a Research Assistant at the Harvard Pop Center. Learn more about this full-time position.

Upcoming Online Seminars at the Harvard Pop Center

Recent publications & news

GO BIG NOW on relief to address “commingled miseries” of COVID-19

February 25, 2021
The authors of a recent Harvard Pop Center Working Paper have pulled from this analysis of real-time data on food and housing insecurity and penned an op-ed in the New York Daily News that implores the new Biden-Harris administration to go big with relief.
What is driving the decline in life expectancy in the U.S., and what can be done about it?

February 25, 2021
An op-ed on health policy published in JAMA explains why the healthcare sector can only skim the surface when it comes to addressing the deep structural drivers in declining life expectancy. The authors —Atheendar S. Venkataramani, MD, PhD, former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Rourke O’Brien, PhD, and Harvard Pop Center faculty member Alexander C. … Continue reading “What is driving the decline in life expectancy in the U.S., and what can be done about it?”
Finally, a look at COVID-19 mortality rates by race/ethnicity AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL

February 24, 2021
“Intersectional inequities in COVID-19 mortality by race/ethnicity and education in the United States, January 1, 2020–January 31, 2021,” is the latest Harvard Pop Center working paper by Jarvis Chen, Christian Testa, Pamela Waterman, and Nancy Krieger. On February 2, the US National Center for Health Statistics published data relating to COVID-19 deaths that had been … Continue reading “Finally, a look at COVID-19 mortality rates by race/ethnicity AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL”
Geographic Insights Lab presents LIVE COVID-19 vaccine rollout dashboard for India by state

February 18, 2021
The Geographic Insights Lab is an initiative committed to improving public policies by honing in on targeted geopolitical units (such as congressional districts in the U.S. and parliamentary constituencies in India) in order to mine more precise population health and development data. This Lab, led by S V Subramanian, professor of population health and geography … Continue reading “Geographic Insights Lab presents LIVE COVID-19 vaccine rollout dashboard for India by state”
Analyzing electronic health records can be a fast and accurate way to predict risk of death from COVID-19

February 17, 2021
Hossein Estiri, PhD, is lead author on a study that utilized artificial intelligence to leverage the data compiled in electronic health records to compute individual-level risk scores for death after a COVID-19 infection. Among those predictors at the top of the list for those between the ages of 45-65 were age, history of pneumonia, diabetes … Continue reading “Analyzing electronic health records can be a fast and accurate way to predict risk of death from COVID-19”