On October 3, 2018, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) held a half-day joint symposium Population Health ...

Since 1805, the number of humans on Earth has skyrocketed from one billion to eight billion. Zoomed out, the growth appears positively parabolic. For everyone alive today, the present population boom ...

Cities are often seen as hotspots of violence, with the assumption that larger cities are inherently more violent than smaller ones. This "universal law" of urban scaling has long shaped scientific ...

Beverly Grove-based Cedars-Sinai Health System has launched a research division focused on population science and its impact on health. The division, which was unveiled last month, will focus on ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American More than 11,000 scientists recently urged ...

Dr. Ji Yun Tark, Postdoctoral Associate, Epidemiology and Population Sciences, was awarded funding through the U54 REDIAL Career Enhancement Program. The title of her project is “Characterizing BMI ...

On November 15, 2022—as estimated by demographers—the count of humans on this planet reached eight billion. Population growth has been steady over the past few decades, with billion-person marks ...

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The nearly nine hundred giant stone statues discovered by the first Europeans to land on Easter Island seemed at odds with the small population found living there. It is believed a once thriving ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown source of ancestry for some native peoples in Brazil, suggesting a new wrinkle in the story of the settlement of the Americas. The finding does not ...

On October 3, 2018, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) held a half-day joint symposium Population Health ...