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.
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.
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.
Sandro Galea is a physician,epidemiologist,and author. He is the Robert A. Knox professor and dean at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is the former Chair of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Galea is past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012,chairing two of the organization's reports on mental health in the military. He formerly served as chair of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Community Services Board and as a member of its Health Board.
David John Hunter is an Australian epidemiologist and the Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Oxford Population Health. He was previously a professor in Harvard University's departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition. Hunter was associate epidemiologist,Channing Laboratory,Brigham and Women's Hospital,where he was involved with the programs in breast cancer,cancer epidemiology,and cancer genetics research teams. At Oxford he directs the Translational Epidemiology Unit and leads a collaborative project between Oxford and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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.
Simin Liu is an American physician researcher. He holds leadership positions internationally in the research of nutrition,genetics,epidemiology,and environmental and biological influences of complex diseases related to cardiometabolic health in diverse population. His research team has uncovered new mechanisms and risk-factors as well as developed research frameworks for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Liu's laboratory conducts research mainly in the United States,though the group has had research collaborations,teaching,and service activities in six of the Seven Continents.
Joel Salinas is an American-born Nicaraguan neurologist,writer,and researcher,who is currently 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.
Mohammed Omar Ejaz Rahman is a Bangladeshi academic psychiatrist and epidemiologist/demographer who was previously Dean of Research and Professor of Epidemiology and Demography at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh from 1 February 2020 to 31 January 2022. Prior to that,Rahman served as the vice-chancellor of Independent University,Bangladesh from 25 January 2012 until 26 January 2020. He was also an adjunct professor of epidemiology and demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,Harvard University.
Francesca Dominici is a Harvard Professor who develops methodology in causal inference and data science and led research projects that combine big data with health policy and climate change. She is a professor of biostatistics,co-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.
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.
Karestan Chase Koenen is an American epidemiologist and Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the head of the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute. She is a fellow of the American Psychopathological Association and a former president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2015,she received the Robert S. Laufer,PhD,Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
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).
Caroline O'Flaherty Buckee is an epidemiologist. She is an associate professor of Epidemiology and is the associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics,both at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Buckee is known for her work in digital epidemiology,where mathematical models track mobile and satellite data to understand the transmission of infectious diseases through populations in an effort to understand the spatial dynamics of disease transmission. Her work examines the implications of conducting surveillance and implementing control programs as a way to understand and predict what will happen when dealing with outbreaks of infectious diseases like malaria and COVID-2019.
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."
Michelle Asha Albert is an American physician who is the Walter A. Haas Lucie-Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and professor of medicine at the University of California,San Francisco. Albert is director of the UCSF Center for the Study of Adversity and Cardiovascular Disease. She is president of the American Heart Association. She served as the president of the Association of Black Cardiologists in 2020–2022 and as president of the Association of University Cardiologists (2021–2022). Albert is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Society of Clinical Investigators.
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.
