Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and former RWJF scholar Jennifer Karas Montez co-authored a paper published in the American Journal of Public Health, titled “Trends in the Educational Gradient of Mortality Among US Adults Aged 45 to 84 Years: Bringing Regional Context Into the Explanation.”
Former RWJF Scholar Papachristos’ paper on network exposure & homicide victimization in African American community
Andrew Papachristos, PhD, a scholar in the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program at the Pop Center from 2010- 2012, had an article titled “Network Exposure and Homicide Victimization in an African American Community” published in The American Journal of Public Health.
Former RWJF Scholar Nandi’s paper on inequalities in HIV/AIDS prevalence in sub-Saharan African countries
Arijit Nandi, PhD, a scholar in the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program at the Pop Center from 2008- 2010, had a article titled Socioeconomic inequalities in HIV/AIDS prevalence in sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from the Demographic Health Surveys published on February 18, 2014 in the International Journal for Equity in Health.
Welcome to the Next Cohort of RWJF Health & Society Scholars
We’re pleased to welcome the next cohort of RWJF Health & Society Scholars at Harvard. Angie Boyce (Cornell University) – Science & Technology Studies Rourke O’Brien (Princeton University) – Sociology / Social Policy Colleen Reid (University of California, Berkeley) – Environmental Health
Dr. Alex Tsai Publishes Work on HIV/AIDS in Uganda
Pop Center faculty member Alexander C. Tsai has recently co-authored a number of studies pertaining to the treatment of HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Dr. Tsai was first author on “Internalized stigma, social distance, and disclosure of HIV seropositivity in rural Uganda” and “Harnessing poverty alleviation to reduce the stigma of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa.“
Do health behaviours mediate the effects of local-area economic conditions on mortality?
Former RWJF Health & Society Scholar Ari Nandi explores the hypothesis that health behaviours mediate the effects of local-area economic conditions on mortality in this newly released study.
Capturing Sexual Behavior Information in Youth in Ghana
Former Harvard/RWJF Health & Society Scholar, Bart Bingenheimer, and colleagues report on the success of a new survey instrument suitable for capturing sexual behavior information in Ghana and other sub-Saharan areas.
Socioeconomic Status and Body Mass Index
Reanne Frank, Harvard RWJF Health & Society alum, evaluates data from the New Immigrant Survey to understand the role of socioeconomic status in changes to body mass index upon arrival to the US.
Home and Workplace Environments
Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society scholar, Mahasin Mujahid, investigates relationships between home and workplace neighborhood environments in his recent study, “Home and work neighborhood environments in relation to body mass index: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)“.
The Health Cost of Debt
Arijit Nandi and Elizabeth Sweet, former RWJF Health & Society Scholars, find debt to be an important socioeconomic determinant of health in their recent study, “The high price of debt: Household financial debt and its impact on mental and physical health” published in the journal Social Science and Medicine.