Albert Hofman, MD, PhD, is chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Dr. Hofman was the chair of the Department of Epidemiology of the Erasmus Medical Center at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from 1988 until 2016. He has been science director of the graduate school Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (Nihes) since its start in 1990 until 2015.
