Nicholas Christakis

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He conducts research in the fields of network science, biosocial science and behaviour genetics.He is the co-author, with James Fowler, of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (2009) and the author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (2019) and Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (2020).