Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding and optimizing societal well-being and health through lifestyle habits rooted in societal and individual principles. 

Dr. Hershey is designing a school-based intervention study using the theoretically grounded leadership intervention, the Practical Wisdom Framework™, aimed at understanding the efficacy of character and virtue education on the underlying sociocultural determinants of lifestyle behaviors.

This study aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice with a holistic and interdisciplinary vision for promoting flourishing societies. She earned her PhD at the University of Navarra, Spain, in Nutritional Epidemiology, where she studied the associations between Mediterranean lifestyle factors on chronic disease health outcomes. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.