The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University,located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston,Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers,the nation's first graduate training program in population health,which was founded in 1913 and then became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.
Jaap Goudsmit is Dutch scientist,known for his research in the field of AIDS and influenza. He shifted his research interest to aging and neurodegenerative diseases,like Alzheimer's Disease. He is also a prolific writer of non-fiction books:Viral Sex,the Nature of AIDS (1997);Viral Fitness,the Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (2004);Serendipity Manual (2012);The Vaccine Bug,a personal history of the World of Immunity (2013);Immorbidity Alphabet,Spelling-out a life free of dis-ease (2015);The Time of your Life,Staying healthy to the End (2016) and The Art of Facing Mortality,a scientist's view (2016).
Daniel Isaac Wikler is an American public health educator,philosopher,and medical ethicist. He is currently the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. He is Director and a core faculty member in the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health (PEH). His current research interests are ethical issues in population and international health,including the allocation of health resources,health research involving human subjects,organ transplant ethics,and ethical dilemmas arising in public health practice,and he teaches several courses each year. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center,an independent bioethics research institution.
Leonard J. Marcus is an American social scientist and administrator. He is director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University,and founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative,a joint program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Sue J. Goldie is an American physician and scientist who is recognized for her contributions to public health and decision science.
Eric Liang Feigl-Ding is an American public health scientist who is currently an epidemiologist and Chief of COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was formerly a faculty member and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International,and co-founder of the World Health Network. His research and advocacy have primarily focused on obesity,nutrition,cancer prevention,and biosecurity.
Sameh El-Saharty is an Egyptian medical doctor and global health expert,who works as Lead Health Policy Advisor at The World Bank in Washington,DC. Dr. El-Saharty joined the Bank in 1998 and was the first Egyptian to work in the health,population,and nutrition (HNP) sector at the World Bank since its establishment. During this period,he was responsible for leading the health policy dialog and health strategy development for client countries as well as managing several programs and projects amounting to more than $3.5 billion in more than 25 countries in three world regions. Before his current position,he was the Program Leader for Human Development,responsible for the HNP,education,social protection and labor markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. He also held the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Health at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C.
Michelle Ann Williams is a Jamaican-American epidemiologist,public health scientist,and educator who has served as the dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health since 2016.
Joel Salinas is an American-born Nicaraguan neurologist,writer,researcher,and an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. He practices general neurology,with subspecialty in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry,at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,Massachusetts. He is also a clinician-scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Framingham Study at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Lisa Berkman is an American epidemiologist currently the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy,Epidemiology,and Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Rebecca A. Betensky is a professor of biostatistics and chair of the department of biostatistics at New York University's School of Global Public Health. Previously,she was a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,where she directed the biostatistics program for the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. She was also a biostatistician for Massachusetts General Hospital,where she directed the biostatistics core of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Francesca Dominici is a Harvard Professor who develops methodology in causal inference and data science and leads research projects that combine big data with health policy and climate change. She is a professor of biostatistics,director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative,and a former senior associate dean for research in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Till Winfried Bärnighausen is an Alexander von Humboldt University Professor and Director of the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine,University of Heidelberg,Germany. He is also Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Department of Global Health and Population,Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,a Faculty Member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies,and a Senior Faculty at the Wellcome Trust's Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa.
Kaumudi Jinraj Joshipura is an Indian American Epidemiologist,Biostatistician,Dentist &Scientist. She is Adjunct Full Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) at Harvard University and NIH Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Clinical Research and Health Promotion and a Full Professor at the University of Puerto Rico,Medical Sciences Campus. Her research work has been covered by global media including CNN,ABC,NBC,NHS,Newsweek,Nature,Telegraph,Japanese Journals and Japanese TV etc.
Patricia Jannet García Funegra is a Peruvian professor of public and global health at Cayetano Heredia University. She originally trained as a clinician before focusing on research and public health. Her work also focuses on reproductive health,sexually transmitted diseases,and medical informatics. In 2016-17 García was the Minister of Health of Peru. She was the first Peruvian to be elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2016.
Marc Lipsitch is an American epidemiologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,where he is the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. He has worked on modeling the transmission of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Nir Eyal is a bioethicist and Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Center for Population–Level Bioethics at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He was formerly a bioethicist in the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School. He has long worked closely with Harvard bioethicist Daniel Wikler. Eyal's current visibility concerns his role in studying the ethics of human challenge trials in HIV,malaria,and coronavirus vaccine development. He has also written on 'bystander risks' during pandemics and infectious diseases and contract tracing during ebola.
Medellena Maria Lee Glymour is an American epidemiologist. Her primary research interests focus on "how social factors experienced across the lifecourse,such as educational attainment and work environment,influence cognitive function,memory loss,stroke and other health outcomes in old age."
Donna Spiegelman is a biostatistician and epidemiologist who works at the interface between the two fields as a methodologist,applying statistical solutions to address potential biases in epidemiologic studies.
Margaret Elizabeth Kruk is a public health expert,physician,and health systems researcher. She is Professor of Health Systems at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Quality of Evidence for Health Transformation (QuEST) Centers and Network. She is slated to become Distinguished Professor of Health Systems and Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis in January 2025.
