Orfeu Buxton is the Elizabeth Fenton Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health; and director of the Sleep, Health, and Society Collaboratory at Pennsylvania State University. His research primarily focuses on the causes of chronic sleep deficiency in the workplace, home, and society, the health consequences of chronic sleep deficiency, and the physiologic and social mechanisms by which these outcomes arise. Buxton serves as the second Editor in Chief for the journal…
David Canning is the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Science, and professor of economics and international health in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on the role of demographic change (e.g., the effect of changes in age structure on aggregate economic activity) and health improvements (e.g., health as a form of human capital and its impact on worker…
Bruno Martins Carvalho is professor of romance languages and literatures, and African and African American Studies; and co-director of the Mellon Urban Initiative at Harvard University. Carvalho’s research and teaching interests include the history of urbanization, the interplay between urban diversity, inequality and segregation, and the environmental advantages of compact cities. He explores how socio-cultural processes of the past converge with those of the present. Author of the award-winning “Porous…
Marcia Castro is the Andelot Professor of Demography; and chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research is focused on the geographical and demographic distribution of infectious diseases, particularly malaria, the identification of social, biological, and environmental risks associated with vector-borne diseases in the tropics, the modeling of determinants of malaria transmission, with particular emphasis on generating evidence for…
Amitabh Chandra is the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, and director of health policy research at Harvard Kennedy School; and the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he directs the joint MS/MBA program in the life-sciences. He was appointed by the American Enterprise Institute as the John H. Makin Visiting Scholar for the 2020-2021 academic year. He is widely recognized as…
Paul Chang is associate professor of sociology at Harvard University, and served as the 2019–2020 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Chang explores the emergence of non-traditional family structures in South Korea, including single-parent and single-person households, and multicultural families. His research on social movements, state repression, and Korean society has appeared in disciplinary and area studies journals. He is the author of “Protest Dialectics: State…
Brittany Charlton is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute in the Department of Population Medicine and at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. She is also the co-director of the Harvard SOGIE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression) Health Equity Research Collaborative and adjunct faculty at The Fenway Institute. Dr. Charlton is known as a…
Jessica Cohen is the Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal, and Alexander S. Beal Associate Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, co-founder of TAMTAM, Inc. (Together Against Malaria), and faculty affiliate at the Jameel-Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She is a health and behavioral economist whose research uses randomized controlled trials and other rigorous, quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the impact of maternal and child health…
Kevin Croke is assistant professor of global health in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His work has two main areas of focus. In one strand, he uses qualitative methods to study the political economy of health systems in developing countries. In another set of projects, he uses empirical methods—including experimental approaches—to study political economy and public service delivery in developing…
Christina Cross is an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University. Cross’s research examines how family structure, change, and dynamics influence individual well-being across the life course, particularly among minority and/or low-income populations. Her current work focuses on 1) documenting the prevalence and predictors of previously underexplored family structures that are common among disadvantaged populations (e.g., the extended family); 2) investigating the relationship between family dynamics and child outcomes and…