Margaret McConnell, PhD, associate professor of global health economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will present “Evaluating the impact of home visiting for improving maternal and child health outcomes for low-income first time parents.” Please note that this hybrid seminar is co-sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and Population as part of their Brown…
Harvard Pop Center graduate student affiliate Aayush Khadka, MS, faculty member Margaret McConnell, PhD, and colleagues Günther Fink, PhD, and Ashley Gromis, PhD, have published a paper that advances the growing body of evidence linking threatened evictions with poor health outcomes. Photo: David Jackmanson on Flickr
Three researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center* are among the authors of a study in Pediatrics that looked at changes in US adolescent reported sexual orientation and suicide attempts by sexual orientation from 2009–2017. Authors on the study include: Julia Raifman, Brittany M. Charlton, Renata Arrington-Sanders, Philip A. Chan, Jack Rusley, Kenneth H. Mayer*, Michael D. Stein, S. Bryn Austin* and Margaret McConnell*. Photo: Seven Seas of Rhye on…
Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member Margaret McConnell on her promotion to associate professor of global health economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A former PGDA Fellow at the Harvard Pop Center, Dr. McConnell’s research combines behavioral economics with field and laboratory experiments to better understand and evaluate policies designed to change health behaviors, with a specific…
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Margaret McConnell, PhD, is co-author on a paper that has found that parents appear to under report the symptoms of girls, which could be linked to their poorer health outcomes. The study is published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Photo: Rod Waddington on Flickr
Harvard Pop Center faculty members Jessica Cohen, PhD, and Margaret McConnell, PhD, are authors on a paper published in Social Science & Medicine that examines the effectiveness of different types of cash transfer programs in reducing maternal mortality. The researchers suggest that both community and household cash transfer programs need to be better designed and implemented to maximize impact. Photo: www.401kcalculator.org
Harvard Pop Center faculty members Margaret McConnell, PhD, and Jessica Cohen, PhD, are authors on a study published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth that suggests that home visits by community health workers within first three days of child birth are an effective and affordable way to help new mothers flag postnatal health issues for themselves and their babies, and make it more likely that they seek care. Photo: Diana Robinson,…
