| | Nicholas Christakis' Bio Page - Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | He is Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; he is also active as an Attending Physician in the Palliative Medicine Program at Massachusetts General Hospital; and he is an Affiliate of the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. |
 | | Christakis' past work has examined the accuracy and role of prognosis in medicine, ways of improving end-of-life care, factors associated with hospice use, and the impact of hospice care on the health of bereaved spouses. |
 | | Currently, he is principally concerned with health and social networks, and specifically with how ill health, health risks, and death in one person can have like consequences for others in a person's social network. |
| www.hcp.med.harvard.edu /people/faculty/permanant/christakis.php (439 words) |