On Thursday, February 11 from 12:30 to 1:30 ET, Lisa Berkman, Director of the Harvard Pop Center, will discuss the challenges (and benefits) of an aging workforce as a panel member on The Forum, a live webcast at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Tune in to the live webcast, or watch the on-demand video later.
Lisa Berkman on challenges of aging societies at Harvard’s inaugural TEDx event
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, was a fitting speaker to kick off Harvard’s first TEDx event which explored the challenges posed as populations, influenced by both declining birth and death rates, change shape. Learn more in this Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s news item, and watch the video.
Despite economic progress, millions of women in low- and middle-income countries still severely undernourished
Harvard Pop Center faculty and researchers, including Fahad Razak, MD, former Bell Fellow and current visiting scientist, as well as former Bell Fellow Daniel Corsi, PhD, Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and faculty member SV Subramanian (Subu), PhD, are among the authors of a novel study published in JAMA on severe, chronic, adult undernutrition. The study provides the first global estimate of severe undernutrition (defined by body mass index…
Lisa Berkman streaming live on uptick in death rates of middle-aged white Americans on MPR Tues., Nov. 10
Join Kerri Miller of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) on Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. ET when she will talk with Lisa Berkman, PhD, director of the Harvard Pop Center, about the recent piece in the New York Times on the increase in deaths among middle-aged white Americans.
Does work stress combined with family circumstances impact mortality of US mothers?
Many previous studies have separately linked job stress and family circumstances with later-life mortality among working mothers, but a new study published in Social Science & Medicine by Recent Pop Center Fellow Erika Sabbath, Harvard Pop Center Research Associate Iván Mejía-Guevara, former Bell Fellow Clemens Noelke, and Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman explores how job stress combined with family circumstances, such as being a single mother, may jointly impact…
Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research to hold international health policy conference
The 6th International Jerusalem Conference on Health Policy will be held May 23-25, 2016 in Jerusalem. Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman and faculty member Mauricio Avendano will be speaking at the conference. There is also a Call for Papers with a submission deadline of December 17, 2015. Learn more!
Lisa Berkman’s expertise on aging takes center stage as we prepare to live longer & our population grows
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman‘s expertise on aging societies and healthy aging is being called on as we prepare to live longer and grow our population to 9 billion. In the piece “Can You Get Smarter?” in today’s New York Times, Lisa comments on the impact of social networks on cognitive decline; today’s Harvard Gazette headline directs readers to the piece entitled “The Aging Game” in Harvard Public Health…
Berkman, Canning and Pop Center faculty featured in cover story on “Silver Tsunami”
Harvard Public Health, The Magazine of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is out with its Fall issue featuring a cover story entitled The Aging Game, Perils and Promises of a Graying Society. The Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, along with Associate Director David Canning, and faculty members David Bloom and Ichiro Kawachi, are among the experts who share their thoughts on “successful aging” including physical, financial…
Harvard Pop Center researchers to receive award for article on innovative use of life course work-family profiles to predict mortality risk
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has named four researchers affiliated with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies as the recipients of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Awards for their paper published in the American Journal of Public Health on the innovative use of sequence analysis as a exposure assessment tool for life course research. Erika Sabbath, ScD, who is lead author on the study and was a visiting…
Length of time spent in retirement impacts some measures of social engagement
Recent Harvard Pop Center Fellow Erika Sabbath, ScD, and Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, are co-authors on a study published in European Journal of Ageing that suggests that disparities in social engagement may become apparent across the retirement transition.