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Lisa Faye Berkman, Ph.D.

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Dr. Berkman is the director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social and policy influences on health outcomes. Her research orients toward understanding inequalities in health related to socioeconomic status, different racial and ethnic groups, and social networks, support and isolation.

Dr. Berkman is the principal investigator of the Health and Aging Study in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI), a program project funded by the National Institute on Aging. HAALSI aims to study the drivers and consequences of HIV and non-communicable diseases in an aging population in Agincourt, South Africa.

She is currently a member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Institut de Recherche en Sante Publique (IReSP) in France. She has been actively involved since 1994 on the GAZEL study, a cohort of 20,000 French employees of EDF-GDF, the large natural gas-electricity company.

In May 2017, Dr. Berkman was appointed faculty director of the PhD program in population health sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

She is author or co-author of several books and 300 publications/chapters. In 2003, she co-edited (with Ichiro Kawachi) Social Epidemiology, a groundbreaking textbook on this burgeoning field. A second edition was published in 2014 with co-authors Kawachi and Maria Glymour.

In recent years, she served as a co-PI on the Work, Family & Health Network, a study involving workplace practices and employee and family health. From 2002-2016, she served as co-site director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program.

Prior to becoming director of the HCPDS, Dr. Berkman was chair of 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.

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  1. R01AG054066 (BERKMAN, LISA F) Sep 30, 2018 - May 31, 2024
    NIH
    Cognitive Function, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in the HAALSI Cohort
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. R56AG054066 (BERKMAN, LISA F) Sep 30, 2016 - Aug 31, 2018
    NIH
    Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Cognition: Innovative Approaches to Global Harmonization
    Role: Principal Investigator
  3. R01AG051144 (BERKMAN, LISA F) Sep 1, 2015 - May 31, 2018
    NIH
    An Innovative Language Controlled Tablet-Based Cognitive Test: Harmonizing Dementia Screening across High and Low Literacy Countries
    Role: Principal Investigator
  4. R03AG046393 (BERKMAN, LISA F) Sep 30, 2013 - Jul 31, 2017
    NIH
    Archiving the occupational cohorts in the Work, Family, and Health Network
    Role: Principal Investigator
  5. P01AG041710 (BERKMAN, LISA F) Sep 15, 2013 - May 31, 2028
    NIH
    Health, Aging and Dementia in South Africa: A Longitudinal Study (HAALSI)
    Role: Principal Investigator

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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.