Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D.

Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., is the Loeb Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. His empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health. He has published over 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals; is author of the books Explanation in Causal Inference (2015), Modern Epidemiology (2021), Measuring Well-Being (2021), Handbook of Religion and Health (2023) and A Theology of Health (2024); and writes a monthly blog posting on topics related to human flourishing for Psychology Today.