Announcing the 2025 Dillon Family Fellowship Award recipient

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate Soroush Moallef on being named the recipient of the 2025 Dillon Family Fellowship Award. This long-standing monetary award was created to benefit graduate students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Soroush Moallef is a PhD candidate in population health sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; a graduate student affiliate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS); and a member of the HCPDS’s Doctoral Traineeship in Demography and Population Science. His research explores how political decisions and structures shape health outcomes, focusing on the US drug overdose crisis, and leveraging spatiotemporal and quasi-experimental methods. He holds a master’s in epidemiology from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His previous work at the United Nations Development Programme and British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Substance Use has examined the impact of drug policies on population health and the ways stigma affects access to care, suicidality, and overall well-being for marginalized communities. Under the guidance of Harvard Chan School faculty Ichiro Kawachi, Marcia Castro, and Rita Hamad, Soroush’s research seeks to advance a political epidemiology of health and generate evidence that can inform policy changes aimed at promoting health equity and upholding human rights.