Announcing the 2026 Dillon Family Fellowship Award recipient

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate Ann Caroline Danielsen on being named the recipient of the 2026 Dillon Family Fellowship Award. This long-standing monetary award was created to benefit graduate students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Ann Caroline Danielsen (she/her) is a PhD candidate in population health sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a member of the Harvard GenderSci Lab. Her research examines how social, political, and structural factors shape gendered health outcomes and pathways to disease, leveraging cross-national comparisons between the United States and Europe. Her work seeks to challenge—and build alternatives to—essentialist understandings of gendered health inequities that overlook how social conditions influence biology. She holds an MPH from Harvard Chan School, an MSc in the history of science, medicine, and technology from the University of Manchester, and previously worked at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Advised by Professors Nancy Krieger, Lisa Berkman, Sarah Richardson, and Sebastien Haneuse, Ann Caroline aims to advance interdisciplinary, feminist approaches to epidemiologic research that promote health equity. The Dillon Family Fellowship will generously support the continuation of her doctoral studies, including research trips to access and analyze internationally collected data.