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Associate Director @dschneider.bsky.social & colleagues explore how points-based attendance systems at work may undermine paid sick leave mandates.
Points-Based Attendance Systems Associated With Presenteeism Despite Paid Sick Leave Protections | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...
Congratulations to Lisa Berkman (and the other three scholars) on being named winners of the 2026 LSE Health Lifetime Achievement Awards!
Lisa Berkman is one of eight Harvard faculty members just elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Congratulations, Lisa!
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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...
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...
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...
@ritahamad.bsky.social describes the potentially heartbreaking consequences for women and their babies when datasets and other federal resources like surveys are deleted or altered, and the federal departments that manage those resources are gutted...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
A Nobel Prize Economist—our faculty member Claudia Goldin—Helped WNBA Players Secure a 400 Percent Raise. Here’s the Strategy She Used...
www.inc.com/amaya-nichol...
More evidence on the power of optimism...something that we can develop! @hayamikoga.bsky.social
hsph.harvard.edu/news/optimis...
Our faculty member Hossein Estiri is an author on this study that leverages AI to fill in a "10 million person blind spot" about long COVID
www.wbur.org/news/2026/06...
Presenteeism, or attending work despite being ill enough to warrant absence, is endemic among working Americans. Although research suggests that paid sick leave mandates reduce presenteeism, it has no...
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The disease has always been tricky to define. A study from Mass General Brigham suggests the healthcare system is missing millions of long COVID cases.
www.wbur.org
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
1/4 Announcing the winners of the 2026 LSE Health Lifetime Achievement Awards 🏆
Brian Abel-Smith Award: Prof Anthony Culyer & Prof Robert Evans
Walter Holland Award: Prof Lisa Berkman & Prof Martin McKee
Announced as LSE Health turns 30 🎂
Full details: bit.ly/4mEOdWR