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Wafaie Fawzi, MBBS, MPH, MS, DrPH

Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Wafaie Fawzi is the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, and professor of nutrition, epidemiology, and global health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research is focused on addressing global health issues in populations in Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, India, and other developing countries. Fawzi’s primary academic interests include the design and implementation of randomized controlled trials and observational studies of maternal, neonatal and child health, and infectious…

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Ann Forsyth, PhD

Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Ann Forsyth is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; director of the master in urban planning program; and co-leader of the Healthy Places Design Lab and the New Towns Initiative. Trained in planning and architecture, she works mainly on the social aspects of physical planning and urban development, and explores how we can build more sustainable and healthy cities. She…

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Thomas Gaziano, MD, MSc

Associate Professor

Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public

Thomas Gaziano is associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in the division of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Gaziano works on the implementation and evaluation of interventions to prevent adverse and premature CVD morbidity and mortality in the US, South Africa, Argentina, and in…

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Maria Glymour, ScD

Adjunct Professor

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Maria Glymour is a professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the UCSF School of Medicine; director, UCSF PhD program in epidemiology and translational science; and adjunct professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on how social factors experienced across the life course—from infancy to adulthood—influence cognitive function, dementia, stroke, and other health outcomes in…

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Claudia Goldin, PhD

Henry Lee Professor of Economics

Harvard University

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University; and co-director of the NBER’s Gender in the Economy Study Group. An economic historian and a labor economist, Goldin’s research covers a wide range of topics, including the female labor force, the gender gap in earnings, income inequality, technological change, education, and immigration. She is best known for her historical work on women in the U.S. economy. Her…

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Steven Gortmaker, PhD

Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Steven Gortmaker is the professor of the practice of health sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and co-director of the School’s Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity (HPRC) whose mission is to improve nutrition and physical activity and reduce obesity and chronic disease risk among children, youth, and their families. His research is particularly focused on the…

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Rita Hamad, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

rhamad@hsph.harvard.edu

Rita Hamad is associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the director of the School’s Social Policies for Health Equity Research Center. As a social epidemiologist, her research focuses on the pathways linking social factors like poverty and education with racial and socioeconomic disparities in health across the life course. In particular, she studies the health effects of social and…

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Rema Hanna, PhD

Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies

Harvard Kennedy School

Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, and chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School; and co-director of the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) research program at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. From measuring discrimination within education in India, to analyzing data from field experiments that assess the efficacy of various targeting methodologies for social safety net programs, Hanna’s…

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Russ Hauser, MD, MPH, ScD

Frederick Lee Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology

Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Russ Hauser is the Frederick Lee Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Hauser’s research interests are in the fields of reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology. For twenty years, he led the NIH funded Environment and Reproductive Health (EARTH) study that investigated the effects of chemicals classified as endocrine disruptors (i.e., flame retardants, PCBs, DDT, pesticides,…

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Miguel Hernan, MD, MPH, ScM, DrPH

Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Miguel Hernan is the Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and director of the CAUSALab at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The goal of the researchers at the Lab is to generate, analyze, and interpret data so that decision makers—patients, clinicians, regulators, policy makers—can make better decisions about what works in medicine, public health, and policy. Hernan studies and implements causal inference methods to evaluate strategies for the…

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