ICHIRO KAWACHI
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology
Ichiro Kawachi, MB.ChB., Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Kawachi received both his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at Harvard since 1992.
Professor Kawachi is the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000 (2nd edition published in 2014, with Lisa Berkman & Maria Glymour, and translated into Japanese). His other notable books include The Health of Nations (translated into Japanese as 不平等が健康を損なう), and 命の格差は止められるか (小学館101新書).
Kawachi’s research focuses on community resilience in the aftermath of disasters. He is the principal investigator of the NIH-funded Iwanuma Study, a cohort of older community-dwelling survivors affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
Kawachi is the Co-Editor in Chief (with S.V. Subramanian) of the international journal Social Science & Medicine, as well as the sister open access journal, SSM – Population Health. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences, and ISI Highly Cited Researcher (General Social Sciences).