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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

30 public health scientists, including our director @ritahamad.bsky.social, share why policy research is vitally important to the advancement of health research, and flag NIH's potential retreat "from a longstanding commitment to studying the policy determinants of health." hsph.me/healthpolicy...

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Policy Research At The National Institutes Of Health: An Imperative In Peril | Health Affairs Forefront

Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it.

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're thrilled to welcome our very own Graduate Student Affiliate Minjin Chae, postdoctoral student in sociology, as this Thursday's speaker...Register to join us in person or online via Zoom popcenter.harvard.edu/blog/calenda...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

To honor our former director Lisa Berkman's 18 years of leadership and her profound impact on our community, we're launching a campaign in the hopes of raising $50,000 to establish a named fund to go towards our training programs. Thanks for any contribution! popcenter.harvard.edu/about/suppor...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy New (Academic) Year, everyone! Here's the latest updates from the Harvard Pop Center... mailchi.mp/hsph/latest-...

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Welcoming New Community Members | Upcoming Events | Pubs in Summary

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

PLEASE VOTE for The ALLPRAMS Collaborative, a semi-finalist for the inaugural APDU Data Integrity Award, for their efforts to protect & restore the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) in the face of unprecedented federal threats. @apduorg.bsky.social www.surveymonkey.com/r/YY6DTB2

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APDU Data Integrity Award 2026

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Just out: Our June newsletter about the people, research, and events at our Center... mailchi.mp/hsph/latest-...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our director, @ritahamad.bsky.social, comments on the threat of losing access to this data...for researchers, women and their babies. #PRAMS RFK's answer to the maternal health crisis: Hide the data www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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RFK's answer to the maternal health crisis: Hide the data

For mothers, the “modest gains of recent years" may not survive this administration, a new report warns.

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We're excited to announce that @courtneyallen.bsky.social and Caroline Kravitz will be joining the Harvard Pop Center community as Bell Postdoctoral Fellows this fall! popcenter.harvard.edu/blog/2026/05...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Congratulations to our Graduate Student Affiliate Ann Caroline Danielsen on being named the recipient of the 2026 Dillon Family Fellowship Award, a long-standing monetary award created to benefit graduate students at @hsph.harvard.edu popcenter.harvard.edu/blog/2026/04...

Congrats to Ann Caroline Danielsen, the recipient of the 2026 Dillon Family Fellowship Award

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Congratulations to Lisa Berkman (and the other three scholars) on being named winners of the 2026 LSE Health Lifetime Achievement Awards!

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Visiting Scientist @brianckeegan.com co-authored this thought-provoking piece that ties the influential book from 1968 to today's anti-immigration efforts.

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This week (3/12) at 12:00 pm ET, ChangHwan Kim, PhD, professor of sociology and director of graduate studies at the University of Kansas, presents (REMOTELY) “Strategic adaptation and Asian Americans’ socioeconomic evolution, 1940 to 2018–22.” Please register to join us! hsph.me/SDS-with-Cha...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Sarah Cowan presents (remotely) "The effect of a Universal Cash Transfer (UCT) on fertility and newborn health” at Thursday's Hybrid Social Demography Seminar...please register now! hsph.me/sds-with-sar...

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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Latest paper @jamapediatrics.com led by SPHERE postdoc @emilydore.bsky.social finds longstanding disparities in infant health by poverty status using national data, e.g., for preterm birth and low birthweight. www.doi.org/10.1001/jama... @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social 1/

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 26/02/2026

Some findings from my talk at @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social this afternoon!

Year-to-year citations

When are citations to P&E work published?

P&E work from A-M regime continues to be cited in present

Topical embedding with UMAP

Project 1302 paper x 429 topic matrix ins 1302 x 2 space preserving structure

A-M regime paper clusters distinct from post-regime papers with some "normal" papers

Reference network

Papers published in P&E, 1978-2025

Links are references from P&E papers

Clear but not complete polarization reflects a gradient of normal and reactionary papers

Coauthorship network

Authors published in P&E, 1978-2025

Links are coauthorships on P&E papers

Unmistakable coauthorshop community under Abernethy and MacDonald

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@brianckeegan.com Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your findings (and these extra beautiful graphs) at today's Social Demography Seminar!

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Our director, Rita Hamad, presents at Monday's (3/2) Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar on the perinatal health impacts of less restrictive antipoverty cash assistance policies enacted during the pandemic @harvardmwc.bsky.social @harvardkennedy.bsky.social hsph.me/Stone-Semina...

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Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Rita Hamad | Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Our visiting scientist Brian Keegan presents “Credibility laundering as a vector: The afterlives of reactionary knowledge in population studies," this Thursday, 2/26 (12–1:15PM ET) Please register to join us either in person or remotely! @brianckeegan.com hsph.me/SDS-with-Kee...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Please register for tomorrow's Social Demography Seminar (12:00 p.m. ET) with Jessica Finlay, assistant professor of geography, University of Colorado-Boulder, presenting “Cognability: A mixed-methods approach to neighborhoods and cognitive health across the life course.” hsph.me/Finlay-on-Zoom

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Our former Bell Fellow Anna Grummon will be 1 of the 3 speakers at this hybrid Harvard Chan Studio event on healthy hydration slated for Feb. 26 at 1:00 p.m. ET... register now! hsph.harvard.edu/events/healt...

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Healthy hydration: Beverage choices and cancer risk | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

How can beverages increase or decrease health risks, particularly cancer?

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Sabrina Hermosilla from Columbia University presents “Navigating—and leveraging—existing data sources to guide sound public health programming to address social determinants of health” at TOMORROW'S Social Demography Seminar...we hope you'll join us! popcenter.harvard.edu/blog/calenda...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@elkelly.bsky.social presented at today’s Social Demography Seminar on a workplace intervention study that investigates the role that supporting increased worker voice (in the form of health & well-being committees) has on turnover at work.

Social Demography Seminar at Harvard Pop Center with Erin Kelly

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We're looking forward to welcoming our collaborator Erin Kelly as we kick off another semester of hybrid Social Demography Seminars this Thursday (2/5) at noon ET. Please register to join us! @mitiwer.bsky.social @elkelly.bsky.social @mitsloan.bsky.social hsph.me/sds_with_Eri...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We're thrilled to have you @ritahamad.bsky.social join us as director and we look forward to advancing our mission together!

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Rita Hamad, MD, PhD, a leading social epidemiologist, has been appointed the next director of the Harvard Pop Center. Read about this leadership transition in today’s Harvard Gazette. @ritahamad.bsky.social @apc.org @hsph.harvard.edu @harvard.edu hsph.me/hcpds_new_di...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Please take a look at our latest newsletter with a special Call for Applications for our Harvard Bell Postdoctoral Fellowships and brief summaries of the most recent publications of our postdocs, researchers, and faculty members... hsph.me/harvard_pop_...

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Call for Applications! The Harvard Pop Center is now recruiting for the 2026–2028 cohort of Harvard Bell Postdoctoral Fellows. The deadline to apply is March 3, 2026. Please share! hsph.me/harvard_bell...

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Xiang is notable for his combination of methodological brilliance and generosity in answering methods questions from his colleagues as well as students.

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our faculty affiliate @ritahamad co-authored this study that evaluates the impact of school re-openings during COVID-19 on the mental health of children www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/h...

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Youth Mental Health Improved When Schools Reopened, Study Finds

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

We're so looking forward to this seminar led by @atheendar.bsky.social ! Harvard Chan School Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences is co-sponsoring and it will take place at the Longwood campus in Boston (and online via Zoom). Please register to join us!

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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Our Bell Fellow, Shiro Furuya, will present “Revisiting theories of marital instability in the era of gray divorce: The case of retirement” at tomorrow's Social Demography Seminar... please register to join us! hsph.me/sdsshiro

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Social Demography Seminar with Shiro Furuya – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

A Harvard University cross-school, interfaculty initiative administered by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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