Dr. Michèle Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, and professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Harvard University. A cultural and comparative sociologist, Lamont is the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and successful societies, and qualitative…
Joscha Legewie is professor of sociology at Harvard University. Legewie examines how peer groups, schools, neighborhoods, and the sequencing of events produce macro patterns of social inequality and influence the relations between social groups. His work is motivated by a theoretical interest in the social, spatial, and temporal processes that lead to inequality. It builds on rigorous causal inference based on natural or quasi-experimental research designs with a keen interest…
Cindy Liu is director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Laboratory at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Liu’s research focuses on culture and socio-emotional development, and race and ethnic disparities as they relate to maternal and child mental health. Her program of research incorporates data ranging from behavioral and physiological data collected from the laboratory to…
Chunling Lu is associate professor of medicine, and associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on providing rigorous scientific evidence for designing health care financing strategies that will effectively improve health outcomes for disadvantaged populations. Dr. Lu leads an economic analysis on community interventions for maternal and child health in Ethiopia and mental health in India. She also leads a global assessment of…
Nicole Maestas is associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School; research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); and director of NBER’s Retirement and Disability Research Center. She studies how the health and disability insurance systems affect individual economic behaviors, such as labor supply and the consumption of medical care. Maestas’s work has shown that the federal disability insurance system discourages employment by people with…
Jennifer Manne-Goehler is an adult infectious diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is a co-founder of the Global Health + Population Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases (HPACC). Her research interests lie at the intersection of HIV and metabolic disease, and her current projects include NIH-funded research on the prevention of metabolic disease in people with HIV, and application of computer…
Kenneth Mayer is a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, a professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and co-director of The Fenway Institute where he teaches and mentors medical students, residents, and fellows. His areas of research include international HIV/AIDS, Gay and Bisexual Men’s Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Microbicides, PrEP, PEP, Vaccines, Secondary Prevention, HIV/AIDS Treatment, and Antibiotic…
Margaret McConnell is associate professor of global health economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard Chan School. Her research combines behavioral economics with field and laboratory experiments to better understand and evaluate policies designed to change health behaviors and improve health outcomes for marginalized populations, with a specific focus on maternal and child health. She has served as PI or co-PI on more than five randomized…
Ellis Monk is a professor of sociology at Harvard University. His academic interests span race/ethnicity, inequality, comparative sociology, health, sociology of the body, social psychology, cognition, and theory. His research, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods, focuses on the comparative examination of social inequality—especially with respect to race and ethnicity—in a global perspective. By deeply engaging with issues of measurement and methodology, Monk’s research examines the complex relationships between social…
Collin Payne is a senior lecturer of demography at The Australian National University and an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher. His work centers on the intersection between population ageing and population health, with a focus on understanding the dynamics of chronic health conditions, frailty, and multimorbidity over time and across generations. His methodological research focuses on multistate demography, microsimulation, and decomposition analysis. Payne received his PhD in demography…