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 The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school at Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan Tseng-hsi in 2014 following a US$350 ...

Education

Berkman received her B.A. degree in sociology from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

in 1972. After that she did M.S in epidemiology from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. In 1977, she completed her Ph.D. from the same university.

Career

Since 2017, Berkman has been serving as a director of Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and professor of Global Health and Population at the

Prior to becoming director of the HCPDS, Dr. Lisa Berkman headed the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (1995 - 2008) and was former head of the division of chronic disease epidemiology at Yale University (1979–1995). She is the President-Elect of Population Association of America 2022 and Member of Deaton Report on Inequality in the UK. Berkman presently serves as a member of The French Institute for Public Health Research (IReSP). She worked as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program's co-site director from 2002 to 2016.

Bibliography

* Health and Ways of Living: The Alameda County Study with

Lester Breslow Lester Breslow (March 17, 1915 in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA – April 9, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an American physician who promoted public health. Breslow's career had a significant impact. He is credited with pioneering chron ...

(Oxford University Press.), 1983 *Social Epidemiology with Ichiro Kawachi(Oxford University Press), 2000 * Neighborhoods and Health with Ichiro Kawachi (Oxford University Press), 2003

References

Living people Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty American women epidemiologists American epidemiologists Northwestern University alumni UC Berkeley School of Public Health alumni 21st-century American women Members of the National Academy of Medicine 1950 births {{Academic-stub