Delia Furtado, PhD, is associate professor in the department of economics at the University of Connecticut.
Rockli Kim
Rockli Kim is an assistant professor in the division of health policy and management, College of Health Sciences, and assistant professor in the department of public health sciences, Graduate School, Korea University. Her research focuses on investigating variations in individual and population health and well-being using multilevel statistical modeling; and assessing social determinants of child undernutrition and early childhood development in LMICs. Rockli received a ScD in social and behavioral…
Sung Park
Sung S. Park is a sociologist whose research is aimed at understanding how both family and group-level determinants and processes contribute to population-level social inequality, particularly as it relates to racial/ethnic disparities in aging. As a Sloan Fellow, Sung extended her prior research on caregiving and the family safety net to investigate the potential benefits and penalties of familial and job-specific circumstances on women’s labor force activities by race/ethnicity, and…
Beth C. Truesdale
Beth Truesdale is a sociologist who studies inequality, labor markets, health, and public policy. She received her PhD from Harvard in 2017, where she examined the relationships among income inequality, population health, and disparities in health between rich and poor. As a Sloan Fellow, she investigated how occupations shape individuals’ work options and decisions during the long run-up to retirement, and how these options and decisions do or do not…
Sissela Bok, MA, PhD
Sissela Bok was a senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and retired in July, 2022. If you’d like to get in touch with her, please email popcenter@hsph.harvard.edu and we can forward your message to her.
Brittney Francis
Brittney Francis holds a doctorate in epidemiology from The Ohio State University. She also holds an MPH from Washington University in St. Louis. Brittney’s research investigates anti-Black structural racism as a risk factor for Pregnancy Induced Hypertensive Disorders (PIHDs) among Black women. During her fellowship, she built on her previous work by exploring neighborhood-level determinants, and incorporated new theoretical frameworks and empirical methods through didactic training and interdisciplinary faculty collaborations.…
Aashish Gupta
Aashish Gupta holds a PhD in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA in development studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research uses demographic and field methods to examine interrelations between health, environment, and inequality in developing countries. His published work has documented the negative externalities of solid fuels used for cooking and coal burning power plants; the barriers in the adoption of…
A. Nicole Kreisberg
A. Nicole Kreisberg is a sociologist who studies immigrant inequalities in educational institutions and the labor market. Nicole holds a PhD in sociology from Brown University, and an AM in social policy from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation used an original field experiment, a national survey experiment, and in-depth interviews to understand whether and why employers screen out Latino male college graduates from entry-level employment based on nativity and…
Adedotun Ogunbajo
Adedotun Ogunbajo holds a PhD in behavioral and social health sciences from Brown University, and a MPH in social and behavioral sciences from Yale University. His dissertation explored how psychosocial health outcomes and substance use influences sexual risk taking among gay and bisexual men in Nigeria. As a Yerby Fellow, he is continuing to broadly focus on the intersection of structural barriers and sexual health outcomes among racial and sexual…
Paul Ayernor
Paul Ayernor (Kojo) is a researcher who focuses on social networks, social support, and the subjective well-being of older adults in sub-Saharan Africa. He strives to understand the macro-micro links influencing older adults’ subjective well-being. Paul is a senior research analyst/program manager on the HAALSA project. He is responsible for managing Agincourt study operations and performing data analysis for the HAALSI Agincourt surveys. Paul received his PhD and MPHIL in…