S "Subu" V. Subramanian

S "Subu" V. Subramanian

Professor of Population Health and Geography
S V Subramanian
Research interests: Development, global health, geographic analysis, India.
S V (Subu) Subramanian is a Professor of Population Health and Geography at Harvard University, and chair of the Faculty Advisory Group for the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. He is a Primary Faculty in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Core Faculty of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Sociology. He is also an Honorary Senior Fellow of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Government of India and the PI of the Geographic Insights Lab. Subramanian was the Founding Director of Graduate Studies for the interdisciplinary PhD program in Population Health Sciences at Harvard. He received his under- and post-graduate training at the University of Delhi and completed his PhD in geography at the University of Portsmouth. He has published over 700 articles, book chapters, and books in the broad field of population health and well-being and in applied multilevel statistical methods. His current research interests include developing and applying data science approaches for precision public policy in the context of health, nutrition and development; and understanding individual and population heterogeneity in health and well-being from a multilevel and cross-comparative perspective. He has consistently been included in the Highly Cited Researchers list since 2015 (top 1% of cited publications in Web of Science). As an educator, Subramanian was the first to develop a course on the concept and application of multilevel statistical methods at Harvard, which he has been successfully teaching at Harvard since 2001, as well as around the world. He has advised over 150 masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral students as a mentor, academic advisor and dissertation committee member. Subramanian is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Social Science & Medicine, a Co-Senior Editor of the social epidemiology office of Social Science & Medicine, and the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of SSM – Population Health, winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Best New Journal in Social Sciences. He is an editorial consultant to The Lancet, and an international advisory board member for The Lancet Global Health.

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