Social Sciences Track

In 2005, a separate track of the MD-PhD Program in the social sciences was established to encourage and support a community of future leaders in the social sciences.

Studies typically follow a sequence in which students complete the first two years of medical school before pursuing graduate research in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Students return to complete their final two years of medical school following the completion of their PhD requirements. Undergraduate applicants interested in applying for admission and funding to support the study leading to the MD-PhD degrees in the social sciences must apply simultaneously to both HMS and GSAS by the specified deadlines.

Graduate study may be pursued in programs such as medical anthropology, economics, health policy, history of science, government, psychology, sociology, statistics, or other programs with relevance to clinical medicine. The program seeks to educate future leaders in medicine and the social sciences who will work to integrate research and teaching in these critically important disciplines.

Dr. Anne E. Becker has been appointed to the position of Director of the MD-PhD Program in the Social Sciences.

• Special FAQs for Social Science Applicants
• Link here for list of recent graduates of the social sciences track

Updated: January 14, 2009