FACULTY STEERING COMMITTEE:
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., 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 Director of the Obesity Prevention Program in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Preventionan, and has a joint appointment as an associate professor at Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Nutrition and as an associate professor in the HMS Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. His research interests are in early life prevention of adult chronic disease, optimal nutrition for children and adults, and clinical epidemiology.
Claudia Goldin Ph.D., Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Director of the NBER's Development of the American Economy program. Dr. Goldin's research is in the general area of American economic history and has covered topics that include slavery, emancipation, the post-bellum South, the family, women in the economy, the economic impact of war, immigration, New Deal policies, inequality, technological change, and education.
Ken Hill, Ph.D., Professor of the Practice of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH. Dr. Hill’s research focuses on global health, specifically in the areas of migration and mortality, and demography.
Gary King, Ph.D., Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, 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.
Mark Schuster, M.D., Ph.D., William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and chief of general pediatrics and vice chair for health policy research in the department of medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Schuster conducts research primarily on child, adolescent, and family issues.
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.
FACULTY MEMBERS:
Till Barninghausen, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Jason Beckfield, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept of Sociology, Harvard University.
Theresa Betancourt, Sc.D., Assistant Professor of Child Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
George Borjas, Ph.D., Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
David Canning, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and International Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Marcia Castro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Alyna Chien, M.D., Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Boston, Harvard Medical School.
Nicholas Christakis, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Aarts and Sciences, and Professor of Medical Sociology,Harvard Medical School.
Majid Ezzati, Ph.D., Associate Professor of International Health, Department of Global Health and Population and Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
Erica Field, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
Gunther Fink, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of International Health Economics, Harvard School of Public Health.
Jocelyn Finlay, Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Vanessa Fong, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Filiz Garip, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dept of Sociology, Harvard University.
Maria Glymour, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
Steven Gortmaker, Ph.D., Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
Sofia Gruskin, J.D., Associate Professor of Health and Human Rights, Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Daniel Halperin, Ph.D., Lecturer on International Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Rema Hanna, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Miguel Hernan, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.M., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Allan Hill, Ph.D., Andelot Professor of Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Ichiro Kawachi, MD, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, and Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health.
Nancy Krieger, Ph.D., Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
Heidi Larson, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change, Clark University.
Tracy Lieu, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health.
Rohini Pande, Ph.D., Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Michael Reich, Ph.D., Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Tracy Richmond, M.D., Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Joshua Salomon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of International Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Jay Silverman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
Elsie Taveras, M.D., MPH., Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and Pediatrics in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health care and Harvard Medical School.
Sara Toomey, M.Phil, M.Sc., M.D., Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
David Williams, Ph.D., Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.