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Office
55 Fruit St
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Boston, MA 02114Phone+1 617-724-9197Fax+1 617-726-2894- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Nicholas Christakis, MD is an internist in Boston, Massachusetts. He is currently licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Illinois. He is a Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
Education & Training
- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Internal Medicine, 1989 - 1993
- Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1989
Certifications & Licensure
- MA State Medical License 2002 - 2026
- CT State Medical License 2014 - 2025
- IL State Medical License 1995 - 2002
- PA State Medical License 1992 - 1996
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Elected Member Institute of Medicine, 2006
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare Marquis Whos Who
Clinical Trials
- Randomized Controlled Trial of Social Network Targeting in Honduras Start of enrollment: 2015 Jun 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 2 citationsCharacterizing super-spreaders using population-level weighted social networks in rural communities.Shivkumar Vishnempet Shridhar, Marcus Alexander, Nicholas A. Christakis> ;Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences. 2022 Jan 10
- Household food insecurity and health in a high-migration area in rural Honduras.Sanjeev Kumar, Nicholas A. Christakis, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla> ;SSM - Population Health. 2021 Aug 3
- 4 citationsTriadic embeddedness structure in family networks predicts mobile communication response to a sudden natural disaster.Jayson S. Jia, Yiwei Li, Xin Lu, Yijian Ning, Nicholas A. Christakis, Jianmin Jia> ;Nature Communications. 2021 Jul 13
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Authored Content
- The Long Shadow of the Pandemic: 2024 and BeyondOctober 2020
Press Mentions
- Health & Veritas: The Better Angels of Our Nature (Ep. 53)October 27th, 2022
- Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Ever End?May 23rd, 2022
- In Wave After Deadly Wave, COVID Has Claimed 1 Million Lives in the U.S.May 17th, 2022
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Grant Support
- The Spread Of Health Behaviors In The Framingham Heart Study Social NetworkNational Institute On Aging2008–2012
- Networks And NeighborhoodsNational Institute On Aging2008–2012
- Neighborhood Effects On Health In Framingham And The Role Of Social NetworksNational Institute On Aging2008–2012
- Genes As Instrumental Variables For Health Behavior Peer Effects In The Fhs-NetNational Institute On Aging2008–2012
- Administrative And Research Support CoreNational Institute On Aging2008–2012
- Roybal Center For Translational Research On AgingNational Institute On Aging2009–2011
- Pilot CoreNational Institute On Aging2009–2011
- Administrative CoreNational Institute On Aging2009–2011
- Development Of Hierarchical Neighborhood Data Regarding Cancer In The ElderlyNational Institute On Aging2007
- Psychological And Financial Burden Of Cancer Caregiving In Elderly SpousesNational Institute On Aging2006–2007
- Core--Program DevelopmentNational Institute On Aging2004–2007
- Social Network Study Of Health Effects In AgingNational Institute On Aging2004–2006
- Relationship Of Morbidity And Mortality Between SpousesNational Institute On Aging2001–2006
- Population Based Study Of Hospice Use And ConsequencesNational Institute On Aging2001
- Population Based Study Of Hospice Use And ConsequencesNational Institute On Aging1998–2001