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Public Health Sciences - Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences: Karen M. Emmons

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


Sub Committee Members


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

Brendan Manning, Chair of the Subcommittee and Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases (School of Public Health) (Chair)
Karen M. Emmons, Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences (School of Public Health) (ex officio)
Daniel L. Hartl, Higgins Professor of Biology
Susan Mango, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Frank Sacks, Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (School of Public Health)
Marianne Wessling-Resnick, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry (School of Public Health)
Dyann F. Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Disease (School of Public Health)


Faculty of the Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics

Xihong Lin, Chair of the Subcommittee and Professor of Statistics (Chair)
Brent A. Coull, Professor of Biostatistics (School of Public Health)
Karen M. Emmons, Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences (School of Public Health) (ex officio)
Jun S. Liu, Professor of Statistics
Neil Shephard, Professor of Statistics and of Economics


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

Lisa F. Berkman, Chair of the Subcommittee and Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology (School of Public Health) (Chair)
David M. Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics
Karen M. Emmons, Dean for Academic Affairs (School of Public Health) (ex officio)
Wafaie W. Fawzi, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health (School of Public Health)
Albert Hofman, Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology (School of Public Health)
Frank B. Hu, Fredrick Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition (School of Public Health)
Ichiro Kawachi, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology (School of Public Health)
Arthur M. Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology 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 C. Waters, John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology

Additional Information

For additional information, please visit https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/phdphs/