posted
04/13/08		 "Men grow thrice as fast as women in India"
Article
   
posted
04/13/08		 "Height still a tall order for Indians"
Article
   
posted 01/21/08 CHW leads Grand Challenges research cooperative on Global Health and Infectious Disease.
Webpage
   
posted 12/18/07 WWS announces the first cohort of Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholars.
Article
   
posted 12/18/07 CHW faculty associate Joao Biehl wins a major book award.
Article
   
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.
   
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. 
   
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.
   
posted 07/12/07 Deaton's new paper on health, happiness and wealth is highlighted in The Economist 
The Paper
The Economist article
   
posted 05/22/07 João 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
   
posted 04/03/07 Uwe Reinhardt: Universal healthcare in U.S. requires $100 billion a year  
The interview with Uwe Reinhardt:
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), March 14, 2007
   
posted 03/08/07 Case and Paxson's research on height featured in NY Times article 
   
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