I have reflected previously on a definition of public health that I like, suggesting that public health is about assuring the conditions for people to be healthy. I have since been engaged in ...

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

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 ...

Demography is a slow-moving train, and based on past and current trends, population science can somewhat predict the future. The populist playbook results in population (namely immigration) used for ...

Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of organisms of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I organised my first event at my new job in ...

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 ...

CISS is excited to announce the September 2026 launch of the BU Population Science (BU PopSci) Seminar. Each academic year, the series will host 8–10 seminars that pair senior researchers with ...

It was Thomas Malthus — the British cleric and political economist, often railed against, rarely actually read — who cast a long shadow over thinking about our future. Writing around the turn of the ...