Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 1:00-1:50pm ET
Dr. Lisa Berkman is the director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research orients toward understanding inequalities in health related to socioeconomic status, working conditions, social and economic policies, and social networks and isolation. Dr. Berkman is the principal investigator of the Health and Aging Study in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI), a program project funded by the National Institute on Aging. Her previous positions include co-site director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program, chair of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and head of the division of chronic disease epidemiology at Yale University.
Watch a recording of the seminar here.