S V Subramanian

Professor of Population Health and Geography

Harvard University, United States

S. V. (Subu) Subramanian is a Professor of Population Health and Geography at Harvard University. His primary appointment is in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. He is also the Faculty Chair of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. His other faculty affiliations are with the Department of Sociology, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Lakshmi Mittal Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University. He was the Founding Director of Graduate Studies for the interdisciplinary PhD program in Population Health Sciences at Harvard. Subramanian 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 850 articles, book chapters, and books in the broad field of population health and well- being and in applied multilevel statistical methods. Currently, he leads a Geographic Insights Lab at Harvard that conducts research on developing and applying data science approaches for precision public policy in the context of health, nutrition and development. The lab also seeks to understand individual and population heterogeneity in health and well-being from a multilevel and cross-comparative perspective. Subramanian 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 185 undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral students as a mentor, academic advisor and dissertation committee member. Subramanian is the founding and current Co-Editor-in-Chief of SSM – Population Health, winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Best New Journal in Social Sciences, and an editorial consultant to The Lancet. He served as the Co-Editor-in-Chief as well as Co- Senior Editor (Social Epidemiology office) for Social Science and Medicine for over a decade and was the founding international advisory board member for The Lancet Global Health.