November 21, 2022 – More than 30 faculty members and researchers affiliated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have been named among the world’s most influential researchers over the past decade.
The faculty members were included in the annual list of Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytic’s Web of Science Group. The list includes faculty from around the world whose papers have been cited most often by their peers—in the top 1% of citations for a chosen field or fields. Worldwide, 6,938 researchers were named to the 2022 list.
More than a dozen Harvard Chan School faculty were identified as having exceptional performance across several fields:
Rifat Atun, professor of global health systems
Sarah Fortune, John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Maria Glymour, adjunct professor of social and behavioral sciences
Gokhan Hotamışlıgil, James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism
I-Min Lee, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology
Brendan Manning, professor of molecular metabolism
Vikram Patel, professor in the Department of Global Health and Population
Eric Rimm, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Joel Schwartz, professor of environmental epidemiology
Meir Stampfer, professor of epidemiology and nutrition
Elsie Sunderland, professor of environmental science and engineering in the Department of Environmental Health
Tobias Walther, adjunct professor of molecular metabolism
Other highly cited researchers affiliated with Harvard Chan School included:
Martin Aryee, associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics
Eric Franzosa, senior research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics
Wendy Garrett, Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Richard Gelber, professor in the Department of Biostatistics
Edward Giovannucci, professor of nutrition and epidemiology
Miguel Hernan, Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Frank Hu, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology
Curtis Huttenhower, professor of computational biology and bioinformatics
Ichiro Kawachi, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology
Nancy Krieger, professor of social epidemiology
JoAnn Manson, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Alkes Price, professor of statistical genetics
Paul Ridker, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Donna Spiegelman, professor of epidemiologic methods, emerita
S.V. Subramanian, professor of population health and geography
Tyler VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology
Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition
David Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health
Several highly cited researchers were spotlighted by Clarivate for their work contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Among them was David Williams, for his research on how police killings of unarmed Black Americans harm the mental health of Black Americans in the general population.