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Dr. David R. Williams serves as the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, while also holding a professorship in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Previously, he held faculty positions at Yale University and the University of Michigan.
His pioneering research examines how socioeconomic status, race, stress, racism, health behavior, and religious involvement intersect to influence health outcomes. He developed the Everyday Discrimination Scale—the most widely adopted instrument for measuring discrimination in health studies—and has directed landmark research including the first nationally representative mental health study in sub-Saharan Africa and the largest U.S. study of Black mental health.
Dr. Williams has received exceptional recognition including:
- Election to the National Academy of Medicine
- Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Election to the National Academy of Sciences
- Ranking as the Most Cited Black Scholar in the Social Sciences worldwide
- Designation as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds
He provides national leadership on health equity as staff director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America and scientific advisor to the PBS series "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?", with his work featured in major media outlets and his widely viewed TED Talk.
