Faculty Members – Page 6 – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

David S. Pedulla, PhD

Professor

Sociology, Harvard University

David Pedulla is a professor of sociology at Harvard University. His research focal areas include race and gender stratification, labor markets, and economic and organizational sociology. Pedulla examines the consequences of nonstandard, contingent, and precarious employment for workers’ social and economic outcomes, as well as the processes leading to race and gender labor market stratification. His research also explores bias and discrimination in the hiring process, the ways that organizations…

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Michael Reich, MA, PhD

Professor

International Health Policy, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Michael R. Reich is the Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is an expert on international health policy, particularly the political dimensions of public health policy and pharmaceutical policy. His research focuses on access to health technologies in poor countries. Reich has provided policy advice to many organizations around the…

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Tracy Richmond, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Tracy Richmond is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and on the faculty of Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED), a public health incubator based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Boston Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on environmental contexts such as neighborhoods and schools and their contribution to racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent health. More specifically, Richmond studies the…

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Charles E. Rosenberg, PhD

Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences

Harvard University

Charles E. Rosenberg is a professor of the history of science, emeritus, and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He has written widely on the history of medicine and science. Rosenberg is a recipient of the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) and the George Sarton Medal (for lifetime achievement) from the History of Science Society.…

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Meredith L. Rowe, EdD

Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Meredith L. Rowe is the Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development; and faculty director, Human Development and Psychology program, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is an educational psychologist interested in understanding and preventing socioeconomic disparities in learning during early childhood. Her research focuses on examining the role of parent and family factors in children’s language and literacy development, and leveraging this knowledge to develop intervention…

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Rob Sampson, PhD

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Rob Sampson is the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University. His research and teaching cover a variety of areas including crime, disorder, the life course, neighborhood effects, civic engagement, inequality, “ecometrics,” and the social structure of the city.

Daniel Schneider, PhD

Professor

Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; and Sociology, Harvard University

Daniel Schneider is a professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and professor of sociology at Harvard University. His research interests are focused on social demography, inequality, the family, and work. As co-director of The Shift Project, his current research focuses on how precarious work affects household economic security and worker and family health and well-being. Schneider completed his BA in public policy at Brown University, and earned his…

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Gita Sen, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Gita Sen is Professor Emeritus at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, former director of the Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity & Social Determinants of Health at the Public Health Foundation of India; and on the executive committee of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). Her key research areas are health and population; gender and development; and inequality. Sen was the first chairperson of the World Bank’s External…

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Susan T. Stewart, PhD

Research Specialist

National Bureau of Economic Research

Susan T. Stewart is a research specialist at National Bureau of Economic Research. She works with Harvard economist David Cutler as part of a team of researchers who are developing a Satellite National Health Account for the United States. An overarching goal of this account is to measure the output of the health system in terms of quality-adjusted life expectancy. Stewart has been the lead analyst and author of the…

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S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD

Professor

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

S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD, is professor of population health and geography in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on understanding the role of geographic, spatial and institutional contexts (e.g., neighborhoods, schools, workplaces) in influencing population health; empirical multi-level examination of the pathways between macro socioeconomic environments (e.g., income inequality and social capital) and population health and…

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