Corrigendum: Apolipoprotein E Genetic Variation and its Association With Cognitive Function in Rural-Dwelling Older South Africans.
Soo CC, Farrell MT, Tollman S, Berkman L, Nebel A, Ramsay M.
Front Genet. 2022. 13:795349. PMID: 35518354
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology
Center for Population Studies
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Global Health and Population
Global Health and Population
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director of the Center for Population and Development Studies
Center for Population Studies
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Berkman is the director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social and policy influences on health outcomes. Her research orients toward understanding inequalities in health related to socioeconomic status, different racial and ethnic groups, and social networks, support and isolation.
Dr. Berkman is the principal investigator of the Health and Aging Study in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI), a program project funded by the National Institute on Aging. HAALSI aims to study the drivers and consequences of HIV and non-communicable diseases in an aging population in Agincourt, South Africa.
She is currently a member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Institut de Recherche en Sante Publique (IReSP) in France. She has been actively involved since 1994 on the GAZEL study, a cohort of 20,000 French employees of EDF-GDF, the large natural gas-electricity company.
In May 2017, Dr. Berkman was appointed faculty director of the PhD program in population health sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
She is author or co-author of several books and 300 publications/chapters. In 2003, she co-edited (with Ichiro Kawachi) Social Epidemiology, a groundbreaking textbook on this burgeoning field. A second edition was published in 2014 with co-authors Kawachi and Maria Glymour.
In recent years, she served as a co-PI on the Work, Family & Health Network, a study involving workplace practices and employee and family health. From 2002-2016, she served as co-site director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program.
Prior to becoming director of the HCPDS, Dr. Berkman was chair of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (1995 - 2008) and was former head of the division of chronic disease epidemiology at Yale University.
Soo CC, Farrell MT, Tollman S, Berkman L, Nebel A, Ramsay M.
Front Genet. 2022. 13:795349. PMID: 35518354
Bassil DT, Farrell MT, Wagner RG, Brickman AM, Glymour MM, Langa KM, Manly JJ, Salinas J, Tipping B, Tollman S, Berkman LF.
Int J Epidemiol. 2021 Dec 06. PMID: 34871405
Neufcourt L, Zins M, Berkman LF, Grimaud O.
J Hypertens. 2021 12 01. 39(12):2497-2505. PMID: 34387572
Ehntholt A, Pabayo R, Berkman L, Kawachi I.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 11 23. 18(23). PMID: 34886020
Schwartz GL, Leifheit KM, Chen JT, Arcaya MC, Berkman LF.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 01. 292:114544. PMID: 34774367
Kobayashi LC, Gross AL, Gibbons LE, Tommet D, Sanders RE, Choi SE, Mukherjee S, Glymour M, Manly JJ, Berkman LF, Crane PK, Mungas DM, Jones RN.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2021 10 30. 76(9):1767-1776. PMID: 33249448
Soo CC, Farrell MT, Tollman S, Berkman L, Nebel A, Ramsay M.
Front Genet. 2021. 12:689756. PMID: 34721516
van Empel E, de Vlieg RA, Montana L, Gómez-Olivé FX, Kahn K, Tollman S, Berkman L, Bärnighausen TW, Manne-Goehler J.
Arch Sex Behav. 2021 10. 50(7):3257-3276. PMID: 34599468
Kobayashi LC, Morris EP, Harling G, Farrell MT, Kabeto MU, Wagner RG, Berkman LF.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2022 04. 76(4):385-390. PMID: 34556542
Wade AN, Payne CF, Berkman L, Chang A, Gómez-Olivé FX, Kabudula C, Kahn K, Salomon JA, Tollman S, Witham M, Davies J.
BMJ Open. 2021 09 15. 11(9):e047777. PMID: 34526338
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