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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Our mission is to understand and intervene on the social determinants of health and health equity across the life-course. 

Phone 617-432-1135
Location

677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building
Boston, MA 02115 

News

  • Chronic Diseases December 15, 2010

    Happiness & health

    [ Winter 2011] The biology of emotion—and what it may teach us about helping people to live longer. Could a sunny outlook mean fewer colds and less heart disease? Do…

  • Health Policy May 15, 2008

    Guns and suicide: A fatal link

    [ Spring 2008 ] In the United States, suicides outnumber homicides almost two to one. Perhaps the real tragedy behind suicide deaths—about 30,000 a year, one for every 45 attempts—is…