Peter James
Trained in environmental health and epidemiology, Peter has focused his research on estimating the influence of spatial factors, including exposure to nature, the built environment, the food environment, air pollution, light pollution, noise, and socioeconomic factors, on health behaviors, mental health, and chronic disease.
DPM Faculty Receive Prestigious Mentoring Awards
DPM Professor and Vice-Chair Emily Oken, MD, MPH and Assistant Professor Jason Block, MD, MPH are the recipients of the Excellence in Mentoring Awards from Harvard Medical School in recognition of their distinguished records of mentoring. The Excellence in Mentoring Awards were established to recognize the value of quality mentoring relationships and the impact they have on professional development and career advancement in basic/clinical medicine, research, teaching, and adminis
Name change for the Obesity Prevention Program
The Obesity Prevention Program (OPP) is now the Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL). The new name better reflects the breadth of their work and mission to lessen the burden of chronic disease by conducting epidemiologic, intervention and delivery systems research within diverse populations of children and adults. Visit the CoRAL homepage to learn more.
CarPE Current Research
Examples of Current CarPE Research Projects
| High Resolution Measures of Behavioral Cancer Risk Factors from Mobile Technology CarPE Investigator(s): Peter James | Funder: National Cancer Institute CarPE Career OpportunitiesPlease direct inquiries about research fellowships and training opportunities relating to cancer to Dr. Wagner. CarPE Home The mission of the Center for Cancer Policy and Program Evaluation (CarPE) within the Department of Population Medicine is to generate sound evidence to inform policies and p DPM faculty receive first annual Robert H. Ebert Career Development AwardsWe are pleased to announce Marie-France Hivert, MD, MMSc, Gordon Moore, MD, MPH, Darren Toh, ScD, and Anita Wagner, PharmD, MPH, DrPH as the recipients of the first annual Career Development awards from the Robert H. Ebert Fund for Innovation in Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. 
Karen SwitkowskiKaren Switkowski, PhD, MPH, is a Research Scientist in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Her background is in nutrition science and epidemiology, and she is primarily interested in researching associations of early-life nutrition, including maternal diet and nutritional status during pregnancy, with child health outcomes. Dr. Switkowski works in the Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL) and mainly on Project Viva, a longitudinal study of mother-child pairs. Name change for the Drug Policy Research GroupFor more than twenty years, the Drug Policy Research Group (DPRG) has generated many important studies that have advanced our understanding of how pharmaceutical policies affect patient health in the U.S. |