News
"Men grow thrice as fast as women in India"
posted 04/13/08
"Men grow thrice as fast as women in India"
Article
"Height still a tall order for Indians"
posted 04/13/08
"Height still a tall order for Indians"
Article
CHW Leads Grand Challenges Research
posted 1/21/08
CHW leads Grand Challenges research cooperative on Global Health and Infectious Disease.
website
Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholars
posted 12/18/07
WWS announces the first cohort of Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholars.
Article
Joao Biehl Wins Book Award
posted 12/18/07
CHW faculty associate Joao Biehl wins a major book award.
Article
Angus Deaton has been Elected President-Elect of the American Economic Association
posted 10/16/07
Angus Deaton has been elected president-elect of the American Economic Association for 2008. This is the second year in a row that a member of our faculty has won this election.
Danny Kahneman receives APA Award
posted 09/06/07
Danny Kahneman receives the American Psychological Association's most prestigious honor — the APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology.
APA's Monitor has the article.
Whose Deaths Matter? Mortality, Advocacy and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media
posted 09/06/07
Betsy Armstrong's paper "Whose Deaths Matter? Mortality, Advocacy and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media," co-authored with Dan Carpenter and Marie Hojnacki, just received the "Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award" from the ASA Medical Sociology Section.
Angus Deaton in The Economist
posted 07/12/07
Deaton's new paper on health, happiness and wealth is highlighted in The Economist
The Paper
The Economist article
Joćo Biehl’s book, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
posted 05/22/07
Joćo Biehl’s book, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press 2005), has received the following awards:
- Stirling Prize of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
- Leeds Prize of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
- Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change
- Eileen Basker Memorial Prize of the Society for Medical Anthropology
- Honorable Mention, the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Universal Healthcare in U.S. Requires $100 Billion a Year
posted 04/03/07
The interview with Uwe Reinhardt:
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), March 14, 2007
Case and Paxson in NY Times
posted 03/08/07
Letter From America
posted 03/08/07
Angus Deaton's "Letter from America" appears every six months in the Royal Economic Society's Newsletter.
American Shortcomings, October 2006
Comment on American Shortcomings by Tim Harford, January 2007