Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH, is one of eight members of the newly created Virgin Pulse Science Advisory Board. Culled from a wide variety of experts and luminaries across the well-being spectrum whose research has long benefited Virgin Pulse, the advisory board ensures that Virgin Pulse is consistently monitoring and acting on the research and drivers of real, long-lasting behavior change and well-being as the company continues to enhance its platform.

Landrigan is director of the sleep and patient safety program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Research Director of Inpatient Pediatrics at Boston’s Children’s Hospital. A major focus of his work has been evaluating the effects of healthcare provider sleep deprivation on patient and provider safety, and the effects of interventions to reduce these risks.

Other board members include:

Shelley Carson, PhD, a Harvard-educated doctor of experimental psychopathology. Her research focuses on creativity, psychopathology, and resilience.

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, who directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University and is the co-director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He is a social scientist and physician who conducts research in the areas of biosocial science, network science, and behavior genetics.

Eric A. Finkelstein, PhD, MHA, executive center director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care and professor at the Duke?National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School and research professor at Duke University Global Health Institute.

Ron Goetzel, PhD, senior scientist and director of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and vice president of Consulting and Applied Research for Truven Health Analytics.

I-Min Lee, MBBS, ScD, MPH, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research primarily focuses on the role of physical activity in preventing chronic diseases and enhancing longevity.

David Nash, MD, MBA, founding dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University. He is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.

P. K. Newby, ScD, MPH, MS, a Harvard-trained nutrition scientist and food writer with more than 15 years of experience researching and teaching why what we eat matters, farm to fork.