Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

SBS Faculty

Primary Faculty

  • Mary Travis Bassett
    Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights
    Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights
  • Lisa Berkman
    Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology
    Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
  • Jarvis Chen
    Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Associate Director, Graduate Studies, Population Health Sciences PhD Program
  • Christy Denckla
    Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Erin Driver-Linn
    Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dean for Education
  • Karen Emmons
    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Interim Co-Chair for the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department
  • Alan Geller
    Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Steven Gortmaker
    Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology
  • Rita Hamad
    Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Ichiro Kawachi
    John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology
  • Erica Kenney
    Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition
  • Nancy Krieger
    Professor of Social Epidemiology
  • Karestan Koenen
    Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Laura Kubzansky
    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Rebekka Lee
    Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Margareta Matache
    Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Shoba Ramanadhan
    Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Vaughan Rees
    Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Natalie Slopen
    Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Glorian Sorensen
    Research Professor
  • Jack P. Shonkoff
    Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development
    Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
  • S V Subramanian
    Professor of Population Health and Geography
  • Henning Tiemeier
    Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health
    Associate Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Kasisomayajula Viswanath
    Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication
  • David R. Williams
    Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health

Secondary Faculty

  • S. Bryn Austin
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Interim Co-Chair for the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department
  • Stephen Bartels
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Joseph Gone
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Barbara Gottlieb
    Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Evelynn Hammonds
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Elizabeth Janiak
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Sabra Katz-Wise
    Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Alden Landry
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Douglas Levy
    Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Jonathan Litt
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Charles Nelson
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Judith Palfrey
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Joan Reede
    Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Ronald Samuels
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Clyde Smith
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Adjunct Faculty

Visiting Faculty

  • Lumas Joseph Helaire
    Assistant Dean for Population Health Management and Health Equity Education
    Visiting Lecturer of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Emeritus Faculty

  • Felton Earls
    Professor of Human Behavior and Development, Emeritus
  • Marie McCormick
    Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor, Emerita
  • Rima Rudd
    Senior Lecturer on Health Literacy, Education, and Policy, Emerita
  • Isabelle Valadian
    Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Emerita