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The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is an interfaculty initiative at Harvard University that is closely affiliated with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Established | 1964 |
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Parent institution | Harvard University |
Affiliation | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
Director | Lisa F. Berkman |
Location | , , |
Website | www |
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The Center houses post-doctoral programs, including the David E. Bell Fellowship, and the Mortimer Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Demographic Studies, and previously offered the Sloan Fellowship on Aging and Work, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program.
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies was founded in 1964 by the Harvard School of Public Health (now the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) under the direction of Dean Jack Snyder and director Roger Revelle with a mandate to address issues of population control. Over the years, the Center has addressed the following themes:[1]
As a celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Center for Population and Development Studies honored several individuals who played important roles in the development of the Center, including:
In addition, the Center hosted a 50th anniversary symposium entitled "Reimagining Societies in the Face of Demographic Change," which concerned recent demographic challenges faced by communities in the 21st century, including a rapidly aging global population, women's health and declining fertility, and initiatives the Center for Population and Development Studies is pursuing to help address these challenges.[4]
Lisa F. Berkman | |
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Title | Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies |
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Alma mater | Northwestern University (B.A.), University of California, Berkeley (M.S., Ph.D.) |
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Discipline | Demography and Social epidemiology |
Website | https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/lisa-berkman/ |
Social epidemiologist Lisa Berkman was appointed director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies by Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman in October 2007. Berkman is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (formerly the Harvard School of Public Health). She was chair of the School’s Department of Society, Human Development and Health from 1995– 2008. She is noted for identifying the effects of social networks on mortality risks that helped define the field of social epidemiology in the late 1970s. Berkman also broadened the field with her investigations of how social conditions related to inequality, race, ethnicity, and social isolation influence health and aging.[5]
Director | Term | Achievements | |
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Roger Revelle | 1964-1976 | A trained oceanographer and natural scientist, he studied interactions between people and environments. He co-founded the University of San Diego, and directed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography | |
William Alonso | 1976-1978 | A demographer and sociologist, his research focused on demographic changes, in particular in very urbanized areas. He developed a mathematical model, connecting migration and the evolution of the distribution of the population. | |
Nathan Keyfitz | 1978-1980 | As a statistician and sociologist, he was a pioneer of mathematical demography. His later research focused on environmental and food security, sustainable development, the ethics of consumption, climate change, and poverty. | |
David E. Bell | 1981-1988 | An economist, he served under President Truman and then as director of the U.S. Bureau of Budget and USAID under President Kennedy. His work focused on the intersection of health, population, and economic development. | |
Lincoln Chen | 1988-1996 | A medical doctor, he ushered in a new era at the Center by assertively engaging in a number of international policy research topics such as health equity, health transitions, reproductive health and rights, and global burden of disease. | |
Michael Reich | 2001-2005 | An international health policy expert, his research focused on economic, political and ethical issues in population policies and reproductive health, access to medicines in the developing world, and the neglected health problems of the global poor. | |
Christopher J.L. Murray | 2005-2007 | A physician and health economist, his work, including the inception of the Global Burden of Disease model, led to the development of new methods and empirical studies that strengthened the basis for population health measurement. |
Over the past 60 years, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies has expanded its focus on overpopulation to examine relevant questions involving demographic shifts, resources, health, and the environment. The Center engages over 75 faculty members from multiple disciplines in order to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration. There are four main research focal areas:[6]
Current major projects of the Center include:
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