Harvard SHBT is an innovative, interdisciplinary doctoral program that trains researchers in basic science, translational medicine, and engineering approaches to the field of human communication.
SHBT faculty and students pursue research questions related to auditory neuroscience, signal processing, perception and cognition, and speech-language pathology, combining rigorous training in a range of rigorous scientific disciplines with valuable exposure to clinical practice.
SHBT includes more than 50 faculty members and roughly 40 students at various stages in their doctoral work, operating out of more than 50 different labs at Harvard, MIT, and the Harvard teaching hospitals.