Eric L. Ding
Eric Ding, Sc.D., a nutritionist and epidemiologist, is currently a Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Director of the Campaign for Cancer Prevention, Boston, Senior Associate with The Global Micro-Clinic Project, San Francisco, and a Fellow of the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, New York.
In 2006, he played a major role leading a two-year-long investigation into the controversial drug safety of Vioxx® that drew national attention. Priority published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), as chief author, Eric was recognized and named in the New York Times and USA Today. In 2004, he received the Health Commissioner's Commendation Award from the Baltimore City Health Department. In 2003, he co-founded and served as editor of the journal Epidemic Proportions, awarded the 'Best Johns Hopkins Publication 2005' and recognized by deans of Johns Hopkins University and the director of the National Institutes of Health.
A cancer prevention advocate, he founded the Campaign for Cancer Prevention, and was featured in Newsweek. As director of the Campaign for Cancer Prevention, currently with over 5.2 million members, he was profiled in the book CauseWired (Wiley & Sons, Inc). His efforts have raised more than $100,000 in unrestricted public donations for cancer research.
Born in Shanghai, China, Eric was raised in the Great Plains and the Appalachia of Pennsylvania. A Sigma Chi, he earned his BA from The Johns Hopkins University with Honors in Public Health and election to Phi Beta Kappa. Trained as an NIH National Cancer Institute predoctoral fellow, he earned his doctorate in epidemiology and doctorate in nutrition at age 23 from Harvard University, where he was the youngest-ever graduate from his dual doctoral programs. At Harvard, Eric has taught and lectured in more than a dozen graduate courses throughout Harvard University and undergraduate courses at Harvard College, for which he received the Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Award.
In addition to teaching, he has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and actively contributes as a reviewer. His 2 dozen publications have received over 400 external citations, garnering an H-INDEX scientific impact factor of 10. He currently also serves as an appointed expert committee member on the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease Project.
Eric L. Ding, Sc.D.
Harvard School of Public Health
655 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 717.360.2725
Fax: 617.432.2435
