Jeremy Nobel

Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His teaching and research activities focus on population health, social determinants of health, and the design and evaluation of health improvement intervention programs.

With the unique background and training required to bridge scientific and humanistic disciplines, he has contributed to significant explorations into how creative expression mitigates illness and enhances health and wellbeing.

Dr. Nobel is the President and Founder of The Foundation for Art & Healing, a nonprofit that champions creative expression as a path to improving individual and community health. His book, “Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection,” published by Penguin Random House in 2023, unpacks and demystifies our personal and national experience of loneliness. He clarifies how meaningful connection can be fostered and sustained, and he reveals how creative expression is uniquely suited to reverse the loneliness spiral, making individuals more open to connecting with themselves and with others.

A published poet, Dr. Nobel has received several awards for his poetry including the Bain-Swiggett Prize from Princeton University, and the American Academy of Poets Prize from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Nobel graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University within the Science and Human Affairs program. He received his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his internal medicine residency at the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. Board-certified in both Preventive Medicine and Internal Medicine, Dr. Nobel also holds Master’s Degrees in Epidemiology and Health Policy from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.