David Bloom is the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is an economist and demographer whose research has focused on the application of microeconomic theory to the fields of labor, population health, development, and environment, with a focus on international health and demography. In conjunction with David Canning, Bloom’s research has…
Deirdre R. Bloome is professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She holds a PhD in sociology and social policy, an AM in statistics, and received a certificate in demography from the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Bloome’s expertise lies in the areas of socioeconomic inequality and mobility, racial and ethnic inequalities, family demography, and quantitative methods. Her current research focuses on the relationships among socioeconomic inequality,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dr. 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…
Dr. 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…