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.