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Investigators

Project and Core Leads and Co-Leads

Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH
Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Work, Health, & Well-being
Core Co-Lead, Evaluation and Planning
Investigator, Outreach Core, Boston Hospital Workers Health Study; Thriving Workers, Thriving Workplaces
Research Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Erika L. Sabbath, ScD
Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Work, Health, & Well-being
Core Co-Lead, Evaluation and Planning
Project Lead, Boston Hospital Workers Health Study
Project Co-Lead, Older Workers’ Health and Well-being Study
Associate Professor, Boston College School of Social Work
Adjunct Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lisa Berkman, PhD
Project Co-Lead, Fulfillment Center Intervention Study
Investigator, Evaluation and Planning Core
Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Cal Halvorsen, PhD, MSW
Core Lead, Outreach  
Project Lead, Older Workers’ Health and Well-being Study
Investigator, Evaluation and Planning Core
Associate Professor, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

Erin L. Kelly, PhD
Project Lead, Fulfillment Center Intervention Study
Investigator, Evaluation and Planning Core
Professor, Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management
Co-Director, Institute for Work and Employment Research

Susan Peters, PhD, BOccThy(Hons)
Associate Director, Center for Work, Health, & Well-being
Project Lead, Thriving Workers, Thriving Workplaces Study
Investigator, Evaluation and Planning Core; Outreach Core; Boston Hospital Workers Health Study
Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Gregory Wagner, MD
Chair, Policy Working Group
Project Co-Lead, Thriving Workers, Thriving Workplaces Study
Investigator, Evaluation and Planning Core, Outreach Core, Boston Hospital Workers Health Study
Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Other investigators

Les Boden, PhD
Investigator, Boston Hospital Workers Health Study
Professor, Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

Daniel Gundersen, PhD
Investigator, Thriving Workers, Thriving Workplaces Study
Associate Professor & Associate Director, Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Chief, Office of Survey Methods and Data Analysis

Dean Hashimoto, MD, JD
Investigator, Boston Hospital Workers Health Study
Chief Medical Officer, Occupational Health Services, Mass General Brigham
Associate Professor of Law, Boston College Law School

Karen Hopcia, ScD, ANP-BC, COHN-S, FAAOHN
Investigator, Boston Hospital Workers Health Study
Associate Director of Shared Services, Budget and Data Analysis, Mass General Brigham Occupational Health Services

Jeffrey Katz, MD
Investigator, Thriving Workers, Thriving Workplaces Study
Director, Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research
Professor of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Laura Kubzansky, PhD
Investigator, Fulfillment Center Intervention Study
Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Meg Lovejoy, PhD
Investigator, Fulfillment Center Intervention Study
Research Program Director of the Work and Well-being Initiative, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Melissa McTernan, PhD
Investigator, Boston Hospital Workers Health Study; Older Workers’ Health and Well-being Study
Research Statistician, Boston College

Nico Pronk, PhD, FACSM, FAWHP
Investigator, Outreach Core
President, HealthPartners Institute
Chief Science Officer, HealthPartners

Hazhir Rahmandad, PhD
Investigator, Fulfillment Center Intervention Study
Schussel Family Professor of Management Science and an Associate Professor of System Dynamics, MIT Sloan School of Management

Molin Wang, PhD
Investigator, Fulfillment Center Intervention Study
Associate Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital