Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
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Nicholas A. Christakis
(born May 7, 1962) is an American sociologist and physician known for his
research on social networks and on the socioeconomic and biosocial determinants
of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social
and Natural Science at Yale University. He directs the Human Nature Lab, and he
is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. Until July 2013,
he was Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy
and a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical
School; a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology in the Harvard
Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and an Attending Physician at the
Harvard-affiliated Mt. Auburn Hospital.
From 2009 to 2013,
Christakis and his wife, Erika Christakis, were Co-Masters of Pforzheim House,
one of Harvard's twelve residential houses. In February 2015, it was announced
that Christakis would become the new master of Silliman College at Yale University,
perhaps the first person to serve in this role at both Yale and Harvard.
In 2009, he was named to
the Time 100, Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the
world. In 2009 and again in 2010, Christakis was named by Foreign Policy
magazine to its list of top global thinkers.
He was elected to the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and he was
named a Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in
2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_A._Christakis
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