Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholars program alum Arijit Nandi, PhD, is lead author on a study published in PLOS Medicine that finds a correlation between lower child mortality rates and longer paid maternity leave in low and middle income countries. The findings of the study have received attention on BigNewsNetwork.com.
Christina Roberto in NYT “Labeling the Danger in Soda”
Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar program alumna Christina Roberto, PhD, shares findings of her recently published study in Pediatrics on the influence and effectiveness of warning labels on sweetened beverages in this New York Times piece.
Hawkins and Gillman link 3 decades of clinical and public health data to examine disparities in childhood obesity
Former RWJF Health & Society Scholar Summer Hawkins and faculty member Matthew Gillman are co-authors on a BMC Medicine article on the establishment of the Linked CENTURY database. Hawkins, Gillman and their colleagues linked the existing CENTURY ((Collecting Electronic Nutrition Trajectory Data Using Records of Youth) Study, a database of 269,959 children from birth to age 18 years with measured heights and weights, with each child’s Massachusetts birth certificate, which captures…
Lippert on the association between neighborhood crime and BMI/activity levels
RWJF alumnus Adam Lippert has recently published an article titled “Neighborhood Crime Rate, Weight-Related Behaviors, and Obesity: A Systematic Review of the Literature” in Sociology Compass. The piece, which is a review of current literature, identifies the effects of neighborhood-level crime on obesity and physical activity outside of socioeconomic correlates. Findings from this review suggest a positive correlation between the crime rate in an area (especially violent crime) and higher…
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Estimating the Co-Development of Cognitive Decline and Physical Mobility Limitations in Older U.S. Adults
Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society scholar Steven Haas is an author on a new study published in Demography. The study examined the co-development of cognitive and physical function in older Americans using an age-heterogeneous sample drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (1998–2008). The study results indicated that favorable cognitive health and mobility at initial measurement were associated with faster decline in the alternate functional domain.
Why is measuring cost-related medication burden for Medicare beneficiaries so important?
Jessica Williams, PhD, a Harvard RWJF Health & Society program alumna, has written a piece for the blog of the journal, Medical Care in which she discusses the timeliness and value of a recently published paper that examines the instruments used to measure cost-related medication burden.
Cumulative lifetime use of marijuana found to impact verbal memory in middle age
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Maria Glymour is an author on a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine that explores the long-term effects of lifetime marijuana use on memory and other aspects of cognitive function.
What is role of school context in rapid rise of adolescent e-cigarette use?
Harvard Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society program alum Adam Lippert, PhD, and former Harvard Bell Fellow Daniel Corsi, PhD, have authored a study published in the journal Health & Place that examines the influence that particular school environments may have on e-cigarette use among adolescence.
Why is Flint community particularly vulnerable to lead pipe water contamination?
Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar alum Kristi Pullen, PhD, comments on why the Flint community is particularly vulnerable to the water contamination issue in this news piece on gizmodo.com.
Study first to find intervention helpful in preventing traits in adolescent boys that are considered a precursor to psychopathy
Former Harvard RWJF HSS program scholars Margaret Sheridan, PhD, and Katie McLaughlin, PhD, are co-authors on a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that found a foster care intervention to be effective in preventing the onset of CU (callous-unemotional) traits—a development precursor to psychopathy—among adolescent boys who had been exposed to severe, early deprivation.