Harvard Department of Society, Human Development and Health Harvard School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts

Scholars at the Harvard Center for Society and Health are trained in social epidemiology, new statistical research methods such as multilevel modeling, and core competencies in conducting multidisciplinary research, including economics, political science, demography and sociology.

The major themes of research projects at the Department of Society, Human Development and Health are:

• investigation of the major social determinants of health, including socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, gender and work stress

• study of social support, capital isolation and social disintegration

• social policy and population health

Site Director: Ichiro Kawachi, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Society, Human Development and Health

Other core faculty associated with teaching departments in the Public Health Program and the Department of Society, Human Development and Health include:

Lisa Berkman, Professor and Chair, Department of Society, Human Development and Health
S. V. Subramanian, Assistant Professor, Department of Society, Human Development and Health
Nancy Krieger, Associate Director, Department of Society, Human Development and Health
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Society, Human Development and Health
Laura Kubzansky, Assistant Professor, Department of Society, Human Development and Health
David Williams, Professor, Department of Society, Human Development and Health

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