Speaker

Lisa Berkman is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School. She is the Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, a university wide center. She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social and policy influences on health outcomes. Much of her current work relates to “aging societies” and “workplace and wellbeing policies and practices” and to understanding how work organizations can better improve employee and family health as well as corporate outcomes. She is PI on the Health and Aging in Africa (HAALSI) study; the Sloan Fellowship on Aging and Work project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and recently the “Workplace Redesign for Worker Well-Being: Resilient Design” project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2017-2020). From 2017-2020, she was faculty director of the burgeoning PhD. program in Population Health Sciences also at the Harvard Chan School. Berkman was a member of the MacArthur Research Network on Aging Societies from 2007-2015. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
From 2014-2016, she served as president of the Association of Population Centers and was the 2022 president of the Population Association of America.