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…
Laura Marciano is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Chan T.H. School of Public Health Department of Social and Behavioral Science, the Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, and Director Viswanath’s lab. She is responsible for the HappyB project (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation), aiming to study the longitudinal link between smartphone use, social media, and positive well-being in young people. She obtained her PhD at…
Rachel McCloud’s research focuses on the impact of smartphones and other devices in data gathering and disease prevention. She is studying how connectivity and technology issues impact the ability of individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to use their smartphones for internet access and public health research. Dr. McCloud received her ScD in social and behavioral sciences from the Harvard Chan School, where she focused on health communication in community-based settings.…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Affiliate Scientist
Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Director, PhD Program in Population Health Sciences
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy
Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health and Population
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Affiliate Scientist
Professor of Public Health Policy
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
