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Developing a rehabilitation program that works for incarcerated people
A new study finds that inmates who took part in an innovative county jail education program were less likely to return to ...
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Carr Center for Human Rights Policy launches advocate training and research program to combat LGBTQI+ persecution worldwide
This month, Garcia Blum’s spark of an idea became a reality—he is now director of the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program ...
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The link between poor housing conditions and COVID-19 infection
The researchers found that: Living in substandard housing was linked to higher COVID-19 infection risk, even after adjusting ...
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There’s a racial gap in the economic security of Americans nearing retirement
Racial disparities in the United States lead to many inequalities, but perhaps one of the most lasting is how these ...
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A new initiative gives young people a voice in shaping public safety
It’s now commonplace for communities to measure crime and violence data. Communities also often capture resident perspectives ...
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The populism of self-destruction: How better policy can blunt the anti-clean energy backlash that threatens humanity’s future
HKS Professor Robert Z. Lawrence and Harvard Professor Dustin Tingley say better economic policies can boost clean energy projects in communities that oppose or are wary of them. Populism—the ...
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Pursuing passions one degree at a time
Alice Heath MPP 2016, PhD 2024 believes in addressing inequalities and paying it forward so others have the same freedoms and privileges she has had. Alice Heath MPP 2016, PhD 2024 finds herself back ...
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Drought, Conflict, and the Circulation of Climate Knowledge in Somalia
In November 2023, the Harvard Center for International Development (CID) announced the award recipients of the inaugural GEM Incubation Fund, designed to support research that strives to find ...
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Leveraging Data, Collaboration, and Innovation to Improve Neighborhoods
How can city governments make neighborhoods healthier and safer? Researchers affiliated with the Bloomberg Center for Cities and expert practitioners from U.S. cities will discuss cutting edge ...
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Jeffry Frieden on Globalization, the Rise of Populism, and the Future of Democracy
January 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interview Jeffry Frieden, Chair of the Department of Government at Harvard and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, on globalization, the rise of ...
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The Economic Cost of Long COVID: An Update - David Cutler
2022, Paper: "In a 2020 JAMA Viewpoint, Lawrence Summers and I guessed at the possible economic costs of long COVID.1 At the time, we thought the cost might be $2.6 trillion. With more data, that ...