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Harvard professor named to pontifical academy
February 17, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIV has named Professor Tyler VanderWeele, professor of epidemiology at Harvard University, as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
Dr. VanderWeele is also director of the Human Flourishing Program and do-director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. His “empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health,” according to his university biography.
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