Taking research beyond the data. Moving education beyond the classroom.

RESEARCH: Our research spans many axes but the common thread is a focus on population health. Learn more about our work via our Divisions and Centers.

Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse

The Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL) division focuses on developing innovative interventions and generating new knowledge regarding the origins of chronic disease, obesity, and consequences through the lifecourse.

Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse

Health Policy and Insurance Research

The division of Health Policy and Insurance Research (HPI) research areas include understanding effects of high-cost medical care, pharmaceutical policies, health insurance innovations, personalized medicine, delivery system changes, behavioral interventions, and cost-quality trade-offs.

Health Policy and Insurance Research

Biostatistics

The Biostatistics division is the home for statistical consultation and research at the Institute. The group collaborates widely on causal inference, observational epidemiology, bioinformatics, microsimulation, statistical software and graphics, and general statistical applications.

Biostatistics

Child Health Research and Policy

The Child Health Research and Policy  (CHeRP) division leads population-based research in pediatrics. Its work in asthma, childhood infections, vaccines, and health policy has directly shaped national policy recommendations in these areas.

Division of Child Health Research and Policy

Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology

The Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology (TIDE) division assesses the safety and effectiveness of medical products, novel methods for illness surveillance, and control of both healthcare and community-acquired infections.

Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Centers of Excellence

We are home to three Centers of Excellence. These centers’ primary purpose is to foster intellectual collaboration among faculty across Divisions that have shared research interests, and to promote the expertise of these individuals to the outside world.

Centers of Excellence
More than 25 Years of Innovation & Impact
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TEACHING: We give physicians and population scientists tools to become better health care leaders of the future.

NEWS & EVENTS

Meet the 2023-2024 Thomas O. Pyle Fellowship Awardees

We are pleased to announce the selection of the 2023 - 2024 cohort of Thomas O. Pyle Fellowship awardees. Each fellow will study under the mentorship of a Department of Population Medicine faculty member who aligns with their area of expertise, with the overall goal of contributing to the development of health care policy at any of several levels - public, organizational, or clinical.

2023 Aaka Pande and Sumit Majumdar Memorial Award

We are honored to announce the 2023 winner of the Aaka Pande and Sumit Majumdar Memorial Award: Mahnum Shahzad, PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. This award is presented by the Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research to honor their namesake's legacy of dedication to rigorous science for impactful population health benefit.