"Resilience for Mental Health in the Age of COVID"

Dr Williams is the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University. Previously, he served 6 years on the faculty of Yale University and 14 years at the University of Michigan. A national of St Lucia, Dr. Williams attended and taught at the St. Lucia SDA Academy and completed his undergraduate education at the University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad. He then traveled to the U.S. and earned master’s degrees from Loma Linda University and Andrews University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.

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Dr. Williams has been involved in the development of health policy at the national level in the U.S. He has served in an advisory capacity to Democratic and Republican administrations and on 10 committees for the National Academy of Medicine. He has also played a visible, national leadership role in raising awareness levels of the problem of health inequities and identifying interventions to address them.