People, Centers, and Initiatives
Centers & Initiatives
A number of Penn Arts & Sciences programs and centers across disciplines engage with health as a central part of their research and teaching.
Population Studies Center
Population Aging Research Center
Dispossessions in the Americas
The Water Center
MindCORE
Positive Psychology Center
Penn Development Research Initiative-DevLab
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
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- Child Health
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- Disability & Chronic Disease
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- Global Health
- Historical & Cultural Perspectives
- Human Capital
- Inequality and the Life Course
- Law & Health
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- Migration
- Mortality
- Policy & Public Health
- Population Aging
- Population Health
- Race & Gender
Dolores Albarracín
Amy Gutmann University Professor
Robert Aronowitz
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences
Vijay Balasubramanian
Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics
David Barnes
Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Caroline Batten
Assistant Professor of English
Shelley Berger
Daniel S. Och University Professor
Nicholas Betley
Associate Professor of Biology
Sudeep Bhatia
Associate Professor of Psychology
Nancy Bonini
Florence R.C. Murray Professor of Biology
Anthony Braga
Jerry Lee Professor of Criminology
Kathleen Brown
David Boies Professor of History
Johannes Burge
Associate Professor of Psychology
Aaron Chalfin
Associate Professor of Criminology
Hsaio-wen Cheng
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
David Christianson
Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Ivan Dmochowski
Professor of Chemistry
Marija Drndić
Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics
Angela Duckworth
Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor
Irma Elo
Tamsen and Michael Brown Presidential Professor of Sociology
Zahra Fakhraai
Professor of Chemistry
Tulia Falleti
Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science
Hanming Fang
Norman C. Grosman Professor of Economics
Martha Farah
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences
Ian Fleishman
Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies
Paula Fomby
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Reto Gieré
Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
Sebastian Gil-Riaño
Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Pilar Gonalons-Pons
Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology
Jay Gottfried
Arthur H. Rubenstein University Professor
Marie Gottschalk
Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Mark Goulian
Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor in the Natural Sciences
Guy Grossman
David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations
Wei Guo
Hirsch Family President’s Distinguished Professor of Biology
Emily Hannum
Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Rana Hogarth
Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
A.T. Charlie Johnson
Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Joseph Kable
Jean-Marie Kneeley President’s Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Michael Kahana
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Psychology
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
Megan Kassabaum
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Junhyong Kim
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology
Hans-Peter Kohler
Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography
Aaron Levy
Senior Lecturer, English and History of Art
Susan Lindee
Janice and Julian Bers Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Beth Linker
Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Charles Loeffler
Associate Professor of Criminology
Kristina Lyons
Associate Professor of Anthropology
John MacDonald
Professor of Criminology and Sociology
Allyson Mackey
Associate Professor of Psychology
Letícia Marteleto
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology
Arnold Mathijssen
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Megan Matthews
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Justin McDaniel
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities
Ramah McKay
Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Daniel Moriarity
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Kathleen Morrison
Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology
Emily Ng
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Aurélie Ouss
Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences
Emilio Parrado
Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology
Ileana Pérez-Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
Adriana Petryna
Francis E. Johnston Term Professor of Anthropology
Michael Platt
James S. Riepe University Professor
Adrian Raine
Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology
Philip A. Rea
Professor of Biology, Belldegrun Distinguished Director of the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management
Greg Ridgeway
Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Criminology
Dorothy Roberts
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology
David Roos
E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology
Ayelet Ruscio
Professor of Psychology
Paul Saint-Amour
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities
Andrew Santiago-Frangos
M. Jane Williams and Valerie Vargo Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology
Martin Seligman
Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology
Ala Stanford
Professor of the Practice of Biology
Karen Tani
Seaman Family University Professor
Joshua Teplitsky
Joseph Meyerhoff Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History
Deborah Thomas
R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology
Sarah Tishkoff
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor
Beans Velocci
Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Sergei Vinogradov
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Rebecca Waller
Associate Professor of Psychology
Dagmawi Woubshet
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English
Secil Yilmaz
Assistant Professor of History