Landon Hughes, PhD

Landon Hughes is currently a Yerby Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also holds a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL). Before joining Harvard, Dr. Hughes completed a Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan and a BA in Sociology and Political Science at Grand Valley State University.  As a social epidemiologist, his research utilizes demographic methods to examine morbidity and mortality among LGBTQ populations and considers the effects of social factors on health and aging. At CoRAL, he works alongside Dr. Brittany Charlton to examine pre- and perinatal health and aging among LGBTQ populations.