Lisa Berkman, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Population and Development Studies, is a social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on psychosocial influences on health outcomes. Her research has been oriented towards understanding social inequalities in health related to socioeconomic status, different racial and ethnic groups, and social networks, support and social isolation. The majority of her work is devoted to identifying the role of social networks and support in predicting declines in physical and cognitive functioning, onset of disease and mortality, especially related to cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease. She has been an innovator in linking social experiences with physical and mental health outcomes and has edited (with Ichiro Kawachi) the first textbook on social epidemiology (Social Epidemiology, 2000). She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Link to faculty web page

David Bloom, Ph.D., is Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography; and Director, Program on the Global Demography of Aging, at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an economist and demographer whose research has focused on the application of microeconomic theory to the fields of labor, population health, development, and environment, with a focus on international health and demography. He has done extensive research on the economic impact of reproductive health; he served as PI of a study on the links between reproductive health, demographic outcomes, individual and household income, and aggregate economic performance, supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Bloom has extensive knowledge of, and familiarity with, India and Asia as a whole. He studied marriage and fertility patterns in India as a Fulbright Scholar and led several United Nations Development Programme-Asian Development Bank research teams focused on the economic implications of AIDS in Asia. He has written extensively on Asian economic development, including assessing the quality of life in rural Asia and analyzing the demographic dividend in East Asia. Bloom frequently travels to, and lectures on, India and has delivered briefings to the Planning Commission of India. Link to faculty web page

David Canning, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics and International Health, Dept of Global Health and Population, at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Canning's research concentrates primarily on the role of demographic change and health improvements in economic development. His work on demographic changes focuses on the effect of changes in age structure on aggregate economic activity, and the effect of changes in longevity on economic behavior. He also focuses on health as a form of human capital and the effect of health on worker productivity. He is a co-investigator on the NIA-funded India Health and Retirement Survey/LASI grant which aims to develop a comprehensive, nationally representative survey of aging and health in India and provide the foundation for future studies of aging, allowing cross-national comparisons of population aging. He conducts research on the effect of changes in longevity on economic behavior and on health as a form of human capital and the effect of health on worker productivity. Canning is currently the PI of a study funded by the Hewlett Foundation, "The impact of reproductive health and population dynamics on economic development." The study is exploring the impact of reproductive health and population dynamics on economic development, exploring the link from the provision of reproductive health services to improved child and maternal health, fertility decline, age structure change and economic development, with a focus on how the process contributes to poverty reduction. Canning is also engaged in research on the long term economic effects of vaccination in Bangladesh. Link to faculty web page

Günther Fink, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of International Health Economics, Dept of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health. His research has covered a wide range of topics related to economic development, with a particular focus on the interactions between health and human capital on one side, and economic growth on the other. He is currently conducting a longitudinal household health and wealth survey in Accra, Ghana, which investigates the daily burden of disease in urban Sub-Saharan Africa with a special focus on Malaria. He is also working on a broad socio-economic evaluation of the large-scale anti-Malaria program rolled out in Zambia since 2006.

Edward Green, Ph.D., is Senior Research Scientist and Director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project, based at the Center. He is a medical anthropologist with over 30 years of experience in developing countries in applied research, project design, implementation, and evaluation, as well as in social marketing and behavior change & communication (BCC) health education. Prior to joining the Center, he was Takemi Fellow at the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health. His sectoral experience includes AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, family planning, primary health care, maternal and child health, children affected by war, water and sanitation. Dr. Green is a specialist in integrating traditional (indigenous) and "modern" health systems, and has pioneered a number of collaborative programs in AIDS prevention and primary health care involving African healers. His 2003 book, Rethinking AIDS Prevention, has helped shape current US AIDS prevention policy, as embodied in the ABC policies of USAID and PEPFAR. He is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, (PACHA); a recent member of the Advisory Council of the Office of AIDS Research, Department of Health and Human Services; the board of AIDS.org; the board of the National Foundation for Alternative Medicine; and several other boards of directors. Dr. Green is the author of five books, over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and commissioned technical reports. 
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Sofia Gruskin, J.D., M.I.A., is Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights, and Associate Professor on Health and Human Rights in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She also serves as faculty chair for The Group on Reproductive Health and Rights at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies  Her work emphasizes the conceptual, methodological, policy and practice implications of linking health to human rights, with particular attention to women, children, gender issues, and vulnerable populations. She has extensive experience in research, training and programmatic work with nongovernmental, governmental and intergovernmental organizations working in the fields of health and human rights around the world. Professor Gruskin is the principal investigator for several UNAIDS, WHO and UNFPA sponsored projects intended to strengthen the health and human rights research and policy agenda-particularly in the areas of HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, child and adolescent health and gender-based violence. She serves on numerous boards and committees nationally and internationally, and is a permanent member of the NIH Behavioral and Social Consequences of HIV/AIDS study section. Link to faculty web page

Daniel Halperin, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health. He is a medical anthropologist who has conducted epidemiological and ethnographic research for over thirty years on a number of health and sociocultural issues in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions, with a special focus on HIV risk factors. One of the main research questions driving his HIV-AIDS investigations has been the reasons for the disparity between high HIV prevalence in southern Africa, compared with low HIV prevalence in other developing regions that also have high levels of ‘classic' behavioral risk factors for an AIDS epidemic. Most of his research and scientific publications have therefore dealt with some of the previously more neglected HIV co-factors, such as concurrent sexual partner networks, lack of male circumcision, "dry sex" practices, alcohol use, and heterosexual anal intercourse. He studies the complex linkages between sexual behavior and HIV risk, the effects of biological determinants such as other STDs and male circumcision on the global spread of HIV, quality of life indicators of AIDS care and treatment, and improvement of the quantitative and qualitative measurement of self-reported sexual behavior. The findings have appeared in leading journals such as The Lancet, AIDS, British Medical Journal and Science. Link to faculty web page

Allan G. Hill, Ph.D., is Andelot Professor of Demography, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. His academic work focuses generally on the health transitions and their determinants in the Arab world and West Africa. He recently directed the Women's Health Study of Accra while on leave at the University of Ghana 2002-2004 which, with NIH support, continues as a cohort study 2007-2012. He has previously directed field research on child survival in Mali and The Gambia including studies of the impact of selected health interventions as well as the factors supporting high fertility. He directed several studies of refugee health during the 1985 drought in Mali and has consulted on the death rates in Darfur, Sudan. He was part of the major study that first demonstrated the important mortality impacts of impregnated bed nets in West Africa with the UK Medical Research Council and has directed a major research competition in Nigeria on child survival (Applied Research on Child Health - ARCH). He has also led studies on the elimination of polio in West Africa for USAID and developed methods for the surveillance of child mortality from routine data (the adapted Preceding Birth Technique) with BASICS. He has wide experience with the design, conduct and analysis of household health and fertility surveys and wrote the section on health surveys for the UN Household Survey Capability Programme. His consultancy work includes an analysis of the impact of the USAID-supported diarrhoeal disease control programme on child survival in Egypt for WHO; early trials of what later became the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys for UNICEF in Amman; and experiments in Senegal, Mali and Bangladesh on the usefulness of the Preceding Birth Technique to measure under-2 mortality on an ongoing basis using health facility data. He has served on the faculty of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he was Director of the Centre for Population Studies; the School of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut and the Medical School, University of Jordan, the Ghana School of Public Health and has a continued collaboration with the Social Research Center, American University in Cairo on the social determinants of health and an adjunct professorship with the Boston University School of Public Health. Link to faculty web page

Kenneth Hill, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Health Practice, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, and Adjunct Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Hill is a demographer whose primary research interests are the measurement of mortality in developing countries and interpretation of mortality change. Specific areas of research include the development of new demographic measurement methods (especially for outcomes that prove difficult to measure, like mortality among adults and children, maternal mortality, or undocumented migration); the measurement of child mortality; the exploration of connections between economic crises and demographic parameters; policy impacts on demographic change; the effects of gender preferences on child health behaviors and fertility; the role of development on fertility decline (especially child mortality change); the demography of Sub-Saharan Africa; and the measurement of demographic parameters during public health crises and complex emergencies. His recent papers in Lancet ( Global estimates of levels and trends in maternal mortality from 1990-2005, 2007) and in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (How should we be estimating maternal mortality in the developing world?, 2006) illustrates many of these methodological innovations and shows world- wide changes in maternal mortality. He was the director of the Hopkins Population Center at the Johns Hopkins University from 1995-2004. He is also an associate at the Wiener Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a research center designed to improve public policy and practice in criminal justice, health care, inequality, education, labor, and human services. Link to faculty web page

Michael R. Reich, Ph.D., is Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy and Director of the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as Center Director from 2001 to 2005 and before that was Chair of the Department of Population and International Health at HSPH. He received his Ph.D. in political science (1981), MA in East Asian Studies (1975), and BA in molecular biophysics and biochemistry (1974), all from Yale University. Dr. Reich has written about various aspects of international health policy, particularly the political dimensions of public health policy and pharmaceutical policy. His current research activities focus on access to health technologies in poor countries. He has provided policy advice for many organizations around the world, including national governments, international agencies, non-governmental organizations, private foundations, private corporations, and public-private partnerships. His recent books include: Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health (editor, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002); Getting Health Reform Right (with M.J. Roberts, W. Hsiao, and P. Berman, Oxford University Press, 2004); Wounds of War (with J.M. Lamb, and M. Levy, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004); and Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries (with L. Frost, January 2009). Link to faculty web page

Edward Schumacher-Matos is Director of the Immigration and Integration Studies Project (IISP) at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and a Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a Pulitizer-Award winning journalist who has written extensively on immigration and policy issues for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Philidelphia Inquirer. He currently writes a nationally syndicated column for the Washington Post Writers Group on immigration, Hispanic and Latin American issues. Mr. Schumacher-Matos received a bachelor's degree in literature and politics from Vanderbilt University and a master's degree in international economics and politics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has been a Fulbright Fellow in Japan and a Bi-National Commission Fellow in Spain, and a Shorenstein Fellow on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School. Link to KSG faculty page or to the Washington Post page.