Lisa Berkman, Ph.D., Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology. Dr. Berkman is a social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on psychosocial influences on health outcomes.

David Bloom, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Population and International Health and the
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, HSPH. Dr. Bloom's research spns the areas of labor economics, health, demography, and the environment.

Peter Bol, Ph.D., Charles H. Carswell Professor of EALC. Dr. Bol is also director of the Center for Geographical Analysis, a new center that will offer technology to support interdisciplinary research and education in the fields of spatial analysis and geographic information.

Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Chandra is a health economist studying racial disparities in health care and technology and productivity in health care.

David Cutler, Ph.D., Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Dean for Social Sciences. Dr. Cutler is a health economist studying why people are in better health; the impact of medical care on the public sector; and racial and ethnic segregation.

Matthew Gillman, M.D., S.M., is an Associate Professor in the HMS Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and has a joint appointment as an associate professor at Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Nutrition. His research interests are in early life prevention of adult chronic disease, optimal nutrition for children and adults, and clinical epidemiology.

Merilee Grindle, Ph.D., Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Dr. Grindle is a specialist on the comparative analysis of policymaking, implementation, and public management in developing countries, with particular reference to Latin America

Ken Hill, Ph.D., Visiting Professor in the Department of Population and International Health, HSPH. Dr. Hill’s research focuses on global health, specifically in the areas of migration and mortality, and demography.  

Gary King, Ph.D., David Florence Professor of Government, and Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Dr. King develops statistical and other methods for many areas of social science research, ranging from statistical theory to practical application.

Rob Sampson, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Sociology and the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences. Dr. Sampson's research interests center on crime, deviance, and stigma; the life course; neighborhood effects; and the social organization of cities.

SV Subramanian (Subu), Ph.D., Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, HSPH. Dr. Subramanian’s research focuses on understanding how different contextual settings influence individual health outcomes and the population disparities in health achievements.

Mary Waters, Ph.D., M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology. Dr. Waters specializes in the study of immigration, inter-group relations, the formation of racial and ethnic identity among the children of immigrants, and the challenges of measuring race and ethnicity.

Jorge Dominguez, Ph.D., Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics in the Department of Government, Vice Provost for International Affairs in The Office of the Provost, Senior Advisor for International Studies to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Chairman of The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.