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Public Health Sciences—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences: Erin Driver-Linn

Faculty of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences

Erin Driver-Linn, Dean for Education (School of Public Health)

Sub Committee Members


Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences in Public Health

Brendan Manning, Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases (School of Public Health) (Chair)
Erin Driver-Linn, Dean for Education (School of Public Health) (ex officio)
Robert Farese, Professor of Molecular Metabolism (School of Public Health)
Sarah Fortune, John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (School of Public Health)
Jeffrey Fredberg, Professor of Bioengineering and Physiology (School of Public Health)
Daniel Hartl, Higgins Professor of Biology


Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics

John Quackenbush, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (School of Public Health) (Chair)
Brent Coull, Professor of Biostatistics (School of Public Health)
Erin Driver-Linn, Dean for Education (School of Public Health) (ex officio)
Jun S. Liu, Professor of Statistics


Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Population Health Sciences

Tyler VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology (School of Public Health) (Chair)
Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography (School of Public Health)
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics
Erin Driver-Linn, Dean for Education (School of Public Health) (ex officio)
Albert Hofman, Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology (School of Public Health)
Frank B. Hu, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology (School of Public Health)
Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Anthropology (Medical School)
Francine Laden, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology (School of Public Health)
S. V. Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography (School of Public Health)
Mary Waters, John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology

Additional Information

The Ph.D. programs in Biological Sciences in Public Health, Biostatistics, and Population Health Sciences are administered by the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences. For additional information, please click the links.