Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

SBS Faculty

Primary Faculty

  • Lisa Berkman
    Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology
    Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
  • Gregory N. Connolly
    Professor of the Practice of Public Health
    Director, Center for Global Tobacco Control
  • Kirsten Davison
    Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition
  • Felton Earls
    Research Professor of Human Behavior and Development
  • Karen Emmons
    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Dean for Research
  • Alan Geller
    Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Stephen Gilman
    Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Steven Gortmaker
    Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology
  • Ichiro Kawachi
    Professor of Social Epidemiology
    Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Nancy Krieger
    Professor of Social Epidemiology
  • Laura Kubzansky
    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Marie McCormick
    Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health
  • Cassandra Okechukwu
    Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Vaughan Rees
    Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Rima Rudd
    Senior Lecturer on Health Literacy, Education, and Policy
  • Jack P. Shonkoff
    Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development
    Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
  • Glorian Sorensen
    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • S V Subramanian
    Professor of Population Health and Geography
  • Kasisomayajula Viswanath
    Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • David R. Williams
    Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health

Secondary Faculty

  • S. Bryn Austin
    Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Barbara Gottlieb
    Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Jennifer Haas
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Karen Hacker
    Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Ellice Lieberman
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; and Epidemiology
  • Charles Nelson
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Judith Palfrey
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Joan Reede
    Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Michael Rich
    Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Ronald Samuels
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Adjunct Faculty

  • Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
    Adjunct Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Jennifer Allen
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Mauricio Avendano Pabon
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Elizabeth Barbeau
    Adjunct Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Mary Jean Brown
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Pamela Burke
    Adjunct Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Michael Ganz
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Maria Glymour
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Roberta Goldman
    Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • David Helm
    Adjunct Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Michael Marmot
    Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Nicolaas Pronk
    Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Jay Silverman
    Adjunct Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Norma Swenson
    Adjunct Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Lisa Tieszen
    Adjunct Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences