David Cutler is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and holds a secondary appointment at the Harvard Kennedy School. Cutler is a health economist who seeks to understand how people are experiencing better health later in life than previous generations, and the impacts of medical care on the public sector, as well as the healthcare implications of racial and…
Hossein Estiri is associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he directs the Clinical Augmented Intelligence Group (CLAI), and director of AI Research at the Center for AI and Biomedical Informatics for a Learning Healthcare System (CAIBILS) at Mass General Brigham. He is a computational demographer, data scientist, and clinical research informaticist who applies a variety of data science methodologies to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…