Faculty elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty members Xihong Lin and K. Vish Viswanath have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election is a distinguished lifetime honor recognizing fellows’ scientific excellence and service.
Lin is professor of biostatistics and coordinating director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at Harvard Chan School, professor of statistics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, and associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Her research focuses on the development and application of scalable statistical and machine learning/AI methods for the analysis of massive and complex genetic and genomic, epidemiological, and health data.
Viswanath is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard Chan School and in the McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He directs the India Research Center and the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at Harvard Chan School. His work focuses on the role of science communication in promoting health and well-being for all population groups.
AAAS, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, announced the awards on March 27 and will celebrate the fellows at a forum in Washington, D.C. in June.
