Faculty Members – Page 4 – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

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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Stephanie Jones, PhD

Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Stephanie Jones is the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, and the director of the Ecological Approaches to Social Emotional Learning (EASEL) Laboratory at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a developmental psychologist trained in child development, prevention science, and social policy. Her research investigates: the causes and consequences of social-emotional problems and competencies—including the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on children and youth’s…

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Kathleen Kahn, MB BCh, MPH, PhD

Professor

School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand

Kathleen Kahn is personal professor in the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand; and senior scientist in the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt). Her research interests include health transitions; burden of disease assessments; child health and development; integrated chronic care systems; and interventions to reduce risk factors for metabolic disease. Since the inception of the Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance system…

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Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD (she/her) is an associate professor in Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She also co-directs the Harvard SOGIE (Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression) Health Equity Research Collaborative and she is a senior faculty advisor for the BCH Office of Health…

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Ichiro Kawachi, MB ChB, PhD

John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ichiro Kawachi is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Considered a leading expert in the area of social epidemiology, his research areas include social determinants of health, psychosocial risk factors for heart disease, health disparities, and globalization and population health. In addition to having authored and co-authored numerous books, Kawachi co-edited the seminal textbook “Social Epidemiology,”…

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Gary King, PhD

Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor

Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, and director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He develops methods and software for many areas of social science research, ranging from statistical theory to practical application. King’s work on inferring individual behavior from aggregate data on groups, and methods for achieving cross-cultural comparability in survey research has been used extensively in many practical contexts in…

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Nancy Krieger, PhD

Professor

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

Nancy Krieger is professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor, and chair of the interdisciplinary concentration Women, Gender, and Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a social epidemiologist, with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, and history of public health. Krieger’s research focuses on social inequalities in health, and as an activist…

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Laura Kubzansky, MPH, PhD

Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Laura Kubzansky is professor of social and behavioral sciences and director of the Society and Health Laboratory at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has published extensively on the role of psychological and social factors in health, with a particular focus on the effects of stress and emotion on heart disease. Kubzansky conducts research on whether stress, emotion and other psychological factors help to explain the relationship between…

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David Laibson, PhD

Professor

Economics, Harvard University

David Laibson is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, a faculty dean of Lowell House, and leads the Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative at Harvard University. His research focuses on the topic of behavioral economics with an emphasis on intertemporal choice, self-regulation, behavior change, household finance, public finance, macroeconomics, asset pricing, aging, and biosocial science. Laibson is a recipient of the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly…

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