Want to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier? Then Cultivate Your Social Connections

Social scientist Kasley Killam has always been fascinated by the science of human connection. In college, for instance, she once decided to conduct a personal experiment and perform an act of kindness everyday for 108 days. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she researched solutions for loneliness. At Google's health spinoff, Verily, her job was to bring people together to promote social health. "I first came across the term'social health' during my research at Stanford, where I was developing an app around human connection," Killam says.