Prof. S V Subramanian

Dr S V Subramanian is a Professor of Population Health and Geography at Harvard University, Faculty Chair of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. He is the Principal Investigator of the Geographic Insights Lab based at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. He is a Primary Faculty in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Core Faculty of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, a Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Sociology. 

He was the Founding Director of Graduate Studies for the interdisciplinary PhD program in Population Health Sciences at Harvard. He received his under- and post-graduate training at the University of Delhi and completed his PhD in geography at the University of Portsmouth. He has published over 900 articles, book chapters, and books in the broad field of population health and well-being and in applied multilevel statistical methods. His current research interests include developing and applying data science approaches for precision public policy in the context of health, nutrition and development; and understanding individual and population heterogeneity in health and well-being from a multilevel and cross-comparative perspective. He has frequently been included in the Highly Cited Researchers list since 2015 (top 1% of cited publications in Web of Science). 

As an educator, he was the first to develop a course on the concept and application of multilevel statistical methods at Harvard, which he has been successfully teaching at Harvard since 2001, as well as around the world. He has advised over 185 masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral students as a mentor, academic advisor and dissertation committee member. He was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Social Science & Medicine, a Co-Senior Editor of the social epidemiology office of Social Science & Medicine, and the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of SSM - Population Health, winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Best New Journal in Social Sciences. He has also been an editorial consultant to The Lancet, and served on the international advisory board for The Lancet Global Health.