Eric Rimm, ScD

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition & Professor of Medicine & Director of Pr
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Associate Professor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Director
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

ERIC RIMM, SCD, is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and
Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Program in
Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. For 20 years, Dr. Rimm also
served as the Director of the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, a large prospective study of
diet and chronic disease among 50,000 male health professionals. His main research interests
include studying associations between diet and other lifestyle characteristics in relation to risk
of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Dr. Rimm served on the 2010 USDA Dietary
Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee and the Institute of Medicine’s Dietary Reference
Intakes for Macronutrients Committee. He serves on the editorial board for the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and he is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of
Epidemiology. He served on the executive committee of the Epidemiology and Prevention
Council of the American Heart Association and serves on the board of directors for Project
Bread: The Walk for Hunger. Dr. Rimm has published more than 400 peer-reviewed
manuscripts and has wide ranging interests from the study of dietary modifications of genetic
risks of disease to the design and implementation of new school lunch programs to
underserved populations in the Boston area.