Faculty Affiliates

Dr. Chunling Lu, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Medicine and Associate Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine. As the director of the Program in Global Health Economics and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, her research is focused  on...

S V Subramanian is Professor of Population Health and Geography at Harvard University. He was the Founding Director of Graduate Studies for the interdisciplinary PhD program in Population Health Sciences at Harvard. He has published over 700 articles...

Gordon Hanson is the Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and co-editor of the Journal of...

Dr. Mauricio Santillana is Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, where he directs the Machine Intelligence Group for the betterment of Health and the Environment (MIGHTE) at the Network Science Institute...

Jason Ur is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis in 2014-2020.  He studies the origins and development of cities and empires in the Middle East and their landscape impacts, using...

Peter Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He was the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (2013-2018). Prof. Bol led Harvard’s university-wide effort to establish support for geospatial analysis in teaching...

Doctor Berkman is an internationally-recognized social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social and policy influences on health outcomes.  As Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies her research focuses on...

Professor Blier is the co-creator of Africamap,  a platform for visualizing, analyzing, and sharing maps and geographic datasets related to African studies.  This project expanded into Worldmap, which now hosts research for over 20,000 people, mostly...

John Brownstein, Ph.D is Professor at Harvard Medical School, Chief Innovation Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital, and Director of the Computational Epidemiology Lab and the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator at Boston Children’s. His work aims...

Marcia Castro is the Andelot Professor of Demography, chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and director of the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American...