Professor

David R. Williams

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sociologist; Public health expert; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Sociology, Demography, and Geography
Elected
2007
Research reveals impacts of race, racism, and socioeconomic status, singly and in combination, on physical and mental health across the life course. Scholarship on health disparities also helped reshape academic epidemiology and public health policies reflecting the subtleties of real and perceived discrimination.
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