Positive affect during adolescence and health and well-being in adulthood: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach.
Kim ES, Wilkinson R, Okuzono SS, Chen Y, Shiba K, Cowden RG, VanderWeele TJ.
PLoS Med. 2024 Apr. 21(4):e1004365. PMID: 38564500
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Biostatistics
Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance, and biostatistics. His methodological research is focused on theory and methods for distinguishing between association and causation in the biomedical and social sciences and, more recently, on psychosocial measurement theory. His empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health. He is the recipient of the 2017 Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). He has published over four hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals; is author of the books Explanation in Causal Inference (2015), Modern Epidemiology (2021), and Measuring Well-Being (2021); and he also writes a monthly blog posting on topics related to human flourishing for Psychology Today.
Kim ES, Wilkinson R, Okuzono SS, Chen Y, Shiba K, Cowden RG, VanderWeele TJ.
PLoS Med. 2024 Apr. 21(4):e1004365. PMID: 38564500
Espinosa Dice AL, Lawn RB, Ratanatharathorn A, Roberts AL, Denckla CA, Kim AH, de la Rosa PA, Zhu Y, VanderWeele TJ, Koenen KC.
BMC Med. 2024 Mar 25. 22(1):135. PMID: 38523269
Hong JH, Nakamura JS, Sahakari SS, Chopik WJ, Shiba K, VanderWeele TJ, Kim ES.
Psychol Med. 2024 Mar 18. 1-14. PMID: 38497115
Ortega Bechara A, Chen ZJ, Cowden RG, Worthington EL, Toussaint L, Rodriguez N, Guzman Murillo H, Ho MY, Mathur MB, VanderWeele TJ.
Int J Public Health. 2024. 69:1605341. PMID: 38524628
Long KNG, Wilkinson R, Cowden RG, Chen Y, VanderWeele TJ.
Soc Sci Med. 2024 Mar 01. 347:116704. PMID: 38493683
Padgett RN, Lee MT, Wilkinson R, Tsavaris H, VanderWeele TJ.
Assessment. 2024 Feb 09. 10731911241229060. PMID: 38334097
Fung EN, Cowden RG, Chen Y, Weziak-Bialowolska D, Bialowolski P, Lee MT, McNeely E, VanderWeele TJ.
Front Psychol. 2024. 15:1326655. PMID: 38344281
Nakamura JS, Shiba K, Jensen SM, VanderWeele TJ, Kim ES.
Ann Behav Med. 2023 11 16. 57(12):1058-1068. PMID: 37540830
Kim ES, Chopik WJ, Chen Y, Wilkinson R, VanderWeele TJ.
Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2023 Nov 15. 32:e65. PMID: 37964589
VanderWeele TJ.
Front Public Health. 2023. 11:1263767. PMID: 37719726
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