David Kim

David Kim is an MD/PhD student in Health Policy. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 2007 with degrees in Neuroscience and Peace & Conflict Studies. His work on the cognitive neuroscience of social decision-making has been published in Science.

David is interested in applying methods from network analysis, behavioral economics, and agent-based modeling to understand the interactions between social phenomena and individual health. He is currently investigating the relationship between network position and biomarkers of cumulative stress in a large social network, and is working with a Human Nature Lab team to design the first randomized trial of network-optimized public health interventions.

Recent Publications

• “Exposure, Hazard, and Survival Analysis of Diffusion on Social Networks,” Statistics in Medicine, Apr 2018
• “Social Connectedness Is Associated with Fibrinogen Level in a Human Social Network,” Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Aug 2016
• “Social network targeting to maximise population behaviour change: a cluster randomised controlled trial,” The Lancet, May 2015