David Williams

David Williams, Ph.D.

Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health in the School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Affiliate of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences

617-432-4794

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Faculty Information
Publications

Harvard Title

Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health

Administrative and Hospital Title

Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Science

Other Affiliations

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Affiliate, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard College

Address

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Kresge Bldg, 709
677 Huntington Ave
Boston MA 02115

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Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Impacts of Racism on the Foundations of Health.

Authors: Shonkoff JP, Slopen N, Williams DR.
Annu Rev Public Health 2021-04-01
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The Role of Parents' Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices in the Discrimination-Depression Link among Mexican-Origin Adolescents.

Authors: Park IJK, Du H, Wang L, Williams DR, Alegría M.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 2020-12-01
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How Early Life Adversities Influence Later Life Family Interactions for Individuals with Schizophrenia in Outpatient Treatment: A Qualitative Analysis.

Authors: Misra S, Johnson KA, Parnarouskis LM, Koenen KC, Williams DR, Gelaye B, Borba CPC.
Community Ment Health J 2020-08-01
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Corrigendum to "The epidemiology of alcohol use disorders cross-nationally: Findings from the World Mental Health Surveys" [Addict. Behav. 102 (2020) 106128].

Authors: Glantz MD, Bharat C, Degenhardt L, Sampson NA, Scott KM, Lim CCW, Al-Hamzawi A, Alonso J, Andrade LH, Cardoso G, De Girolamo G, Gureje O, He Y, Hinkov H, Karam EG, Karam G, Kovess-Masfety V, Lasebikan V, Lee S, Levinson D, McGrath J, Medina-Mora ME, Mihaescu-Pintia C, Mneimneh Z, Moskalewicz J, Navarro-Mateu F, Posada-Villa J, Rapsey C, Stagnaro JC, Tachimori H, Have MT, Tintle N, Torres Y, Williams DR, Ziv Y, Kessler RC.
Addict Behav 2020-07-01
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Barriers to Mental Health Service Use and Predictors of Treatment Drop Out: Racial/Ethnic Variation in a Population-Based Study.

Authors: Green JG, McLaughlin KA, Fillbrunn M, Fukuda M, Jackson JS, Kessler RC, Sadikova E, Sampson NA, Vilsaint C, Williams DR, Cruz-Gonzalez M, Alegría M.
Adm Policy Ment Health 2020-07-01
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Patterns of care and dropout rates from outpatient mental healthcare in low-, middle- and high-income countries from the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

Authors: Fernández D, Vigo D, Sampson NA, Hwang I, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Al-Hamzawi AO, Alonso J, Andrade LH, Bromet EJ, de Girolamo G, de Jonge P, Florescu S, Gureje O, Hinkov H, Hu C, Karam EG, Karam G, Kawakami N, Kiejna A, Kovess-Masfety V, Medina-Mora ME, Navarro-Mateu F, Ojagbemi A, O'Neill S, Piazza M, Posada-Villa J, Rapsey C, Williams DR, Xavier M, Ziv Y, Kessler RC, Haro JM.
Psychol Med 2020-04-28
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Pervasive Discrimination and Allostatic Load in African American and White Adults.

Authors: Van Dyke ME, Baumhofer NK, Slopen N, Mujahid MS, Clark CR, Williams DR, Lewis TT.
Psychosom Med 2020-04-01
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Objective Measures of Sleep Apnea and Actigraphy-Based Sleep Characteristics as Correlates of Subjective Sleep Quality in an Epidemiologic Study: The Jackson Heart Sleep Study.

Authors: Johnson DA, Javaheri S, Guo N, Champion CL, Sims JF, Brock MP, Sims M, Patel SR, Williams DR, Wilson JG, Redline S.
Psychosom Med 2020-04-01
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Editor choice: Let it rest: Sleep and health as positive correlates of forgiveness of others and self-forgiveness.

Authors: Toussaint L, Gall AJ, Cheadle A, Williams DR.
Psychol Health 2020-03-01
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The epidemiology of alcohol use disorders cross-nationally: Findings from the World Mental Health Surveys.

Authors: Glantz MD, Bharat C, Degenhardt L, Sampson NA, Scott KM, Lim CCW, Al-Hamzawi A, Alonso J, Andrade LH, Cardoso G, De Girolamo G, Gureje O, He Y, Hinkov H, Karam EG, Karam G, Kovess-Masfety V, Lasebikan V, Lee S, Levinson D, McGrath J, Medina-Mora ME, Mihaescu-Pintia C, Mneimneh Z, Moskalewicz J, Navarro-Mateu F, Posada-Villa J, Rapsey C, Stagnaro JC, Tachimori H, Ten Have M, Tintle N, Torres Y, Williams DR, Ziv Y, Kessler RC.
Addict Behav 2020-03-01
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