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.
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Better Off Podcast: How can we protect the health of incarcerated people?
As COVID-19 swept through American prisons and jails in 2020, wardens scrambled to keep prisoners and corrections officers from getting sick. One strategy was to increase solitary confinement. Health experts…
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Harvard Chan course on colorism named finalist for digital education award
An online course offered by Harvard Chan School that trains learners to use stories to combat colorism—discrimination across and within racial and ethnic groups around skin shade—was a finalist for the 2022 New Digital Course of the Year award from the UK-based Digital Education Awards.
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Student Spotlight | Brianna Keefe-Oates, PhD ’23
Brianna Keefe-Oates, PhD ‘23 is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department. She studies how policies and community-based activism can influence inequities…
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Project uses geographic data to show that where a person lives matters to their health
Harvard Chan School’s Nancy Krieger and colleagues have updated and broadened a project aimed at training people in how to track and monitor socially related disparities having to do with where a person lives.
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Faculty Spotlight | Lumas Joseph Helaire, PhD
Lumas Joseph Helaire, PhD (he/him) joined the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in July 2021 as the assistant dean for population health management and health equity education where…
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Political ideology of U.S. elected officials linked with COVID-19 health outcomes
Study finds the higher the exposure to political conservatism, the higher the COVID-19 mortality rates and stress on ICU capacity
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Unrealistic beauty standards cost U.S. economy billions each year
The repercussions of body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination are costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars annually, according to a new report.
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SBS Newsletter | Welcome To A New Year!
Excerpt From The Chair’s Welcome Message I want to say a very, very special welcome to all of our new MPH-45, MPH-65, and PhD students! This is an exciting time…
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Student Spotlight | Jonathan Lee, MUP/MPH ’23
Jonathan Lee, MUP/MPH ’23 (he/him/his) is currently an MPH-65 student in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, also working on a dual degree in Urban Planning at the Harvard…
