David R. Williams, PhD, MPH

Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Society, Human Development and Health
677 Huntington Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA
USA 02115

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Williams is the Norman Professor of Public Health, Professor of African andAfrican American Studies and of Sociology and director of the Lung Cancer Disparities Center at Harvard University. His research interests include socioeconomic and racial disparities in health, the effects of racism on health and the ways in which religious involvement can affect health. The Everyday Discrimination scale that he developed in one of the most widely used measures of discrimination in health studies.

Papers:
3215.0 - 3399.0 Patterns of risk behaviors among Samoan and Tongan adolescents in California: Results from the Pacific Islander Health Study 4070.0 Coping styles of adolescents experiencing multiple forms of discrimination and bullying: Evidence from a sample of ethnically diverse urban youth