Lisa Berkman Wins Walter Holland Lifetime Achievement Award

Faculty Associate Lisa Berkman, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the recipient of the 2026 Walter Holland Lifetime Achievement Award. The award, distributed by the London School of Economics (LSE) Health, “honors those who have made outstanding contributions to public health research and demonstrated real-world impact on population health and health policy at global, regional, or local levels.” Berkman is a pioneering social epidemiologist whose work has fundamentally shaped our understanding of how socioeconomic status, social networks, and isolation affect health outcomes.