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Announcing the winner of the 2023 Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize

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We’re thrilled to announce that Leah Pierson, PhD, has been selected from a competitive pool of applicants as the recipient of the 2023 Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize. Leah is currently a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, and recently completed her PhD in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on ethical issues in…

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Announcing the 2022 Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize Recipient

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We are thrilled to announce that Harvard doctoral candidate Britta Clark has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize. Clark is a doctoral student in philosophy at Harvard University. Her research interests include social and political philosophy, climate change ethics, environmental ethics, intergenerational justice, and collective responsibility. The title of her in-process dissertation is: “Intergenerational Justice in an Unjust World.” In particular,…

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Call for applications: The Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize

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We are pleased to announce that the call for applications is now open for the Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize. The $5,000 prize will be awarded in the form of a research/travel grant to a Harvard doctoral student, postdoctoral fellow, or full-time, untenured faculty member who has incorporated ethical considerations into his/her population science research. The deadline to apply is Friday, December 8, 2023.    

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Doctoral student Keona J. Wynne awarded research prize

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HCPDS is pleased to announce that the 2019 Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize has been awarded to Keona J. Wynne, a first-year doctoral student in the Population Health Sciences PhD program at Harvard University. The $5,000 prize is awarded in the form of a research/travel grant to a doctoral student, postdoctoral fellow or untenured faculty member at Harvard who has incorporated ethical considerations into population science research. Keona Wynne…

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Anders Herlitz awarded the Sissela Bok Ethics and Population Research Prize

The Harvard Pop Center has awarded Anders Herlitz, PhD, a research fellow and visiting scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with a $5,000 research grant. Herlitz was selected for infusing ethical considerations into his population science research. The Prize is named after longtime Harvard Pop Center member Sissela Bok, a philosopher, ethicist, and writer who has spent her renowned…

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