A healthy diet should consider environmental impact.
Willett WC, Hu FB, Forouhi NG.
Eur Heart J. 2024 Apr 14. 45(15):1375. PMID: 38447170
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair, Department of Nutrition
Nutrition
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Medicine
Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Frank Hu is Chair of Department of Nutrition, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Hu received his MD from Tongji Medical College in China and MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Nutritional Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Hu’s major research interests include epidemiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases through diet and lifestyle; gene-environment interactions; nutritional metabolomics; and nutrition transitions in low- and middle-income countries. Currently, he is Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center Epidemiology and Genetics Core and Director of Dietary Biomarker Development Center at Harvard University. He has published a textbook on Obesity Epidemiology (Oxford University Press) and >1400 peer-reviewed papers with an H-index of 290. He served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the Obesity Guideline Expert Panel, American Heart Association Nutrition Committee, and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS. He has served on the editorial boards of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.
Dr. Frank Hu’s research has focused on diet/lifestyle, metabolic, and genetic determinants of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (CVD). His major research interests include epidemiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases through diet and lifestyle; gene-environment interactions and risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes; nutritional metabolomics in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; and obesity, metabolic phenotypes, and cardiovascular disease in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Hu’s group has conducted detailed analyses of many dietary and lifestyle factors and risk of diabetes and CVD, including sugar-sweetened beverages, coffee, red meat, saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, iron, and dietary patterns in large prospective cohort studies including the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study. These findings have contributed to current public health recommendations and policies for the prevention of chronic diseases. His group has also identified novel biomarkers and gene-environment interactions in relation to risk of obesity and diabetes by integrating cutting-edge omics technologies into epidemiological studies. In addition, Dr. Hu has conducted extensive research on nutrition transition, metabolic phenotypes, and cardiovascular disease in low and middle-income countries.
MD, 1988
Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
MPH, 1993
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois
PhD, 1996
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois
Scientific Award Keynote Speaker, 2022 Annual Scientific Program
Chinese American Medical Society (CAMS)
Boyd Orr Trust Fund Lecturer, The Nutrition Society, UK-Ireland
Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer American Heart Association Scientific Sessions
Elected member, National Academy of Medicine
Kelly West Award in Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes Epidemiology, American Diabetes Association
Established Investigator Award, AHA
American Heart Association
Research Paper Listed as American Heart Association's Top Ten Research Advances for 2001
American Heart Association
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor research Award Finalist in Epidemiology for Young Investigators, AHA
71st American Heart Association Scientific Sessions
Charles A. King Trust Research Fellowship
The Medical Foundation, Boston
Research Paper Listed as American Heart Association's Top Ten Research Advances for 1997
American Heart Association
Willett WC, Hu FB, Forouhi NG.
Eur Heart J. 2024 Apr 14. 45(15):1375. PMID: 38447170
Birukov A, Guasch-Ferré M, Ley SH, Tobias DK, Wang F, Wittenbecher C, Yang J, Manson JE, Chavarro JE, Hu FB, Zhang C.
Diabetes Care. 2024 Apr 01. 47(4):720-728. PMID: 38377484
Hang D, Du M, Wang L, Wang K, Fang Z, Khandpur N, Rossato SL, Steele EM, Chan AT, Hu FB, Meyerhardt JA, Mozaffarian D, Ogino S, Sun Q, Wong JB, Zhang FF, Song M.
EClinicalMedicine. 2024 May. 71:102572. PMID: 38572081
Goldberg DT, Yaskolka Meir A, Tsaban G, Rinott E, Kaplan A, Zelicha H, Klöting N, Ceglarek U, Iserman B, Shelef I, Rosen P, Blüher M, Stumvoll M, Etzion O, Stampfer MJ, Hu FB, Shai I.
Hepatology. 2024 Mar 27. PMID: 38537153
Hong X, Nadeau K, Wang G, Larman B, Smith KN, Pearson C, Ji H, Frischmeyer-Guerrerio P, Liang L, Hu FB, Wang X.
J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2024 Mar 26. PMID: 38548091
Wang T, Chai B, Chen WY, Holmes MD, Erdrich J, Hu FB, Rosner BA, Tamimi RM, Willett WC, Kang JH, Eliassen AH.
Int J Cancer. 2024 Mar 22. PMID: 38520039
Pacheco LS, Tobias DK, Li Y, Bhupathiraju SN, Willett WC, Ludwig DS, Ebbeling CB, Haslam DE, Drouin-Chartier JP, Hu FB, Guasch-Ferré M.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Mar 21. PMID: 38522480
Nguyen XT, Li Y, Ivey KL, Whitbourne SB, Willett WC, Hu FB, Cho K, Gaziano M, Djousse L.
Int J Popul Data Sci. 2023. 8(6):2366. PMID: 38476344
Wang P, Song M, Eliassen AH, Wang M, Fung TT, Clinton SK, Rimm EB, Hu FB, Willett WC, Tabung FK, Giovannucci EL.
Nat Med. 2024 Mar 07. PMID: 38454128
Nguyen M, Jarvis SE, Chiavaroli L, Mejia SB, Zurbau A, Khan TA, Tobias DK, Willett WC, Hu FB, Hanley AJ, Birken CS, Sievenpiper JL, Malik VS.
JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Mar 01. 178(3):237-246. PMID: 38227336
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