How does poverty affect health decisions? Poverty affects every aspect of life and has particularly bad repercussions on human health. The stress of poverty has detrimental effects on the body — and especially the brain.
Scientists have begun to discover that poverty takes its toll on health starting at an early age. Scientists are also making efforts to find the best way to help reverse or eradicate poverty’s health effects. Could education about basic health and nutrition for low-income populations help? Could cash transfers improve some of the health problems that result from poverty?
To learn more about psychology of poverty and which interventions work best to thwart the cycle, join a live online event. Participants include:
Joe Rojas-Burke (moderator): Independent journalist and author of “The challenge of writing about people in poverty”
James Redford: Director of Paper Tigers
Laura Gottlieb, M.D., M.P.H.: Center for Health and Community at University of California, San Francisco
Johannes Haushofer: Postdoctorate at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Teri Barila and Mark Brown: Children’s Resilience Initiative
Date & time:
July 8, 12 p.m. ET