Dr. K. “Vish” Viswanath is the Director of the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness. He also holds a joint appointment at the MacGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is the Director of the Center for Translational Health Communication Science at Harvard Chan and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Viswanath’s work, drawing from literatures in communication science, social epidemiology, and social and health behavior…
Dr. Laura Marciano is a Research Associate at the Harvard Chan T.H. School of Public Health Department of Social and Behavioral Science, the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, and Viswanath Lab. She is responsible for the HappyB project (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation – SNSF) and the HappyB2.0 project (funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – NICHD), aiming to study the longitudinal…
Anubha Tyagi serves as the Assistant Director at the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. With a strong background in post-secondary education administration and policy, Anubha joins Harvard from the University of Pennsylvania, where she previously held the position of Assistant Director at the Penn Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics. In that role, she led operations and…
Ayla is the Communications Coordinator for the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Before beginning this position, she served for four years as Environmental Humanities Program Coordinator at Colby College, for one year as Staff Writer and Environmental Educator at Planet Bee Foundation, and for four years as Archivist and Programs Assistant at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly…
Karina is the Program and Research Coordinator for the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to joining the Center, Karina was the NEAR-P (standing for Neuroscience, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience, and Protective Factors) Science Coordinator for Self-Healing Communities of Michiana, a community change movement whose mission is to nurture community and personal well-being through the neuroscience of…
Elaine Jeon finished her MPH training at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2023, studying social and behavioral sciences and health communication. Prior to Harvard, she received her MMSc in global affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and BA in economics from Amherst College. Elaine worked as a management consultant for four years, collaborating with health organizations across Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Her research…
Zichao Li is a PhD student at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on health communication, mixed-methods, and racial/ethnic and gender health inequalities.
Ally Zhang is a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health MPH Graduate, Class of 2024.
Priyanka Kale completed her MPH training at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2024. As a student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, she continued to further her interests in health communication, mental health, women’s and children’s health, and health equity promotion. After graduation she will resume medical school and graduate with her MD in 2025. Priyanka is a Co-Founder and Director of Operations for Vulnerability…
After earning my MD degree in Community Medicine from India, I have been working as a physician for the last six years. Thanks to this experience, I developed my skills of responsibility and leadership which further helped me to explore my passion for public health. During the pandemic I spearheaded the Covid-19 vaccination drive at district level in 2021, which resulted in hundreds of people getting vaccinated. My research has…
