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Associate Professor, Harvard University

Rita Hamad, MD, PhD, is a social epidemiologist and family physician in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the director of the Social Policies for Health Equity Research Center (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/sphere/). Her research focuses on the pathways linking social factors like poverty and education with racial and socioeconomic disparities in health across the lifespan. In particular, she studies the health effects of social and economic policies using interdisciplinary methods to generate actionable evidence to inform policymaking.