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  • Integrating Knowledge

    Integrating Knowledge Across Disciplines

    The Program aims to bring together various academic disciplines across the university together on important questions.

  • Research

    Research

    We bring cutting edge statistical data science together with insights from the humanities on life's most important questions.

  • Interdisciplinary Conferences

    Interdisciplinary Conferences

    The Human Flourishing Program hosts annual interdisciplinary conferences on topics important to human flourishing.

  • Teaching

    Teaching

    Program faculty and research staff offer summer seminars and for-credit courses to the Harvard community.

  • Mentoring Students

    Mentorship

    Our program faculty and staff guide and mentor post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and Harvard college undergraduates.

Our Mission

Founded in 2016, the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science aims to study and promote human flourishing, and to develop systematic approaches to the synthesis of knowledge across disciplines.

Many topics that are fundamental to human well-being such as happiness itself, virtue, religious community, meaning, and purpose have traditionally been viewed as principally falling within the purview of the humanities, often of philosophy or theology. However, a robust empirical research literature on these topics has now developed from sociology, political science, economics, education, psychology, medicine, public health, and other empirical sciences. The program’s research contributes to the broad question of how knowledge from the quantitative social sciences can be integrated with that of the humanities on questions of human flourishing and how best to carry out this synthesis of knowledge across disciplines. The program hopes to bring greater unity to the empirical social sciences and the humanities.

The program produces research publications and sponsors educational activities, such as courses, seminars, and conferences, for the Harvard University community all aimed at bringing knowledge together across disciplines and reflecting upon how knowledge from different disciplines might form a coherent whole.

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Research summaries can be found out our Human Flourishing Blog hosted by: Human Flourishing Blog at Psychology Today

Seminars and Courses

The Human Flourishing Program also offers week-long summer seminars open to students around the country and for-credit courses for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students designed to provide opportunities to study questions of human flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective. See more here.