Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar program alumna Summer Hawkins, PhD, along with lead author Rocio Calvo Vilches, PhD, a former Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow, have published a study in Maternal and Child Health Journal that finds that perceived disparities in pediatric healthcare tended to lessen from first to third generation immigrant status, although there was some variation between racial/ethnic groups.
How did Hurricane Katrina affect short & long-term happiness of survivors?
Former Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Rocio Calvo Vilches, PhD, Pop Center faculty member Mary Waters, PhD, and Pop Center Yerby Fellow Mariana Arcaya, ScD, co-authored a study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies titled Happily Ever After? Pre-and-Post Disaster Determinants of Happiness Among Survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The study, which compared survivors’ happiness levels pre-disaster to one and four years post-disaster, has received international media attention on fastcoexist.com,…
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Can public social services facilitate the integration of immigrants into modern welfare states?
Using a universal service delivery model designed to facilitate the integration of Moroccan immigrants into a rural municipality of Spain, Rocio Calvo, a visiting scientist at the Harvard Pop Center, and Mary Waters, a Harvard sociologist and member of the Pop Center’s faculty steering committee, explore the ‘progressive’s dilemma’ in their recent study published in the The British Journal of Social Work.