Glorian Sorensen PhD

Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Society, Human Development and Health in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Principal Investigator for the Harvard Chan School's Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing. This Center, funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, represents a strong collaboration between the Departments of Environmental Health, and Society, Human Development and Health. She is also the Faculty Vice President for Faculty Development at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she also directs the Center for Community-Based Research.

The core of Dr. Sorensen’s cancer prevention research is randomized worksite- and community-based studies that test the effectiveness of theory-driven interventions targeting individual and organizational change. A theme of this work is to test the efficacy of behavioral and organizational interventions that are embedded in the social context or environment in which people live and work. Her research has focused on a range of settings, particularly worksites and labor unions. She conducted the first randomized controlled worksite intervention trials to integrate occupational health and health behaviors, and has designed and tested cancer prevention interventions in across a range of industries, including manufacturing, construction, health care, social service, and transportation, and with small and large worksites.