Our Team

Position: Faculty member
Education:
1992: ScD Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health                                                                  1988: MPH Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
1984-1986: Residency in Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center
1984: MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
1980: BS Biology, Harvard University
Research: My main research focuses on how nutritional, lifestyle and genetic factors affect the risk of development and progression of cancers. A specific interest has been understanding etiologic mechanisms underlying the relation between diet, physical activity, body weight and composition, and metabolic dysfunction and cancer risk.
Contact: egiovann@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Faculty member
Education:
2021: Postdoctoral training, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2017: Residency in Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic
2014: MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2013: MD, University of Freiburg
Research: My main research interest is how potentially modifiable exposures cause solid tumors through genomic heterogeneity and influence cancer progression. I am passionate about combining state-of-the-art genomics and well-defined observational studies in order to inform primary prevention, risk stratification, and biomarker-guided treatment. My methodologic and teaching interests include the application of epidemiologic methods to biomarker and clinical studies.
Contact: kstopsack@mgh.harvard.edu

Position: Assistant Professor
Education:
2019-PhD in Cancer Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
2013-MSc in Public Health Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
2007-MSc in Biomedical Sciences, Uppsala University
Research: Genetic and lifestyle markers of aggressive prostate cancer
Contact: anna.plym@ki.se

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
Education:  
2017-2022: PhD, Population Health Sciences, University of Utah
2015-2017: Visiting Scholar, Hunstman Cancer Institute, Utah
2012-2015: Medicine, Hamburg University, Germany
Research: Energy balance and cancer survivorship, cardiovascular disease prevention in cancer survivors
Contact: chimbert@mgb.org

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Education:  
2018-2022: PhD in Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
2013-2015: MPH in Community & International Health, NYU Global Institute of Public Health
2009-2013: BS in Science Preprofessional, University of Notre Dame
Research: Molecular and lifestyle factors in prostate cancer etiology, mortality, and survivorship
Contact: clairekim@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
Education:  
2018-2023: PhD in Epidemiology, University of Southern California
2016-2018: ScM in Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2011-2016: Bachelor in Medicine, Peking University, China
Research: Genetic and molecular factors of prostate cancer
Contact: anqiwang@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Doctoral student
Education: 
2019-2023: PhD in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2017-Present: MD, Harvard Medical School
2012-2016: BS in Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins University
Research: Mechanisms underlying racial disparities of prostate cancer
Increasing equity of patient and global center representation in clinical trials
Patient experience and interactions with the medical system
Contact: emily_rencsok@hms.harvard.edu

Position: Doctoral student
Education:
2020-Present: PhD in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2017-2019: MPH Master's in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Southern California
2014-2018: BS Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of Southern California
Research Interests: Cancer survivorship, built and social environments, causal inference methods 
Contact: Naiyuchen@g.harvard.edu

Position: Doctoral student
Education:
2021-Present: PhD in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2019-2021: MPH Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
2013-2017: B.S. Biology and Community Health, Tufts University
Research Interests: Cancer health disparities/inequities; Interventions to decrease cancer disparities/inequities 
Contact: msodipo@g.harvard.edu

Position: Doctoral Student
Education:
2022-Present: PhD in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2020-2022: MS in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2014-2018: BA Health and Societies, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: cancer survivorship, lifestyle factors and quality-of-life in cancer survivors
Contact: cmcgrath@g.harvard.edu

Position: Master's Student
Education:
2022-Present: MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2021: BS Chemistry, Boston College
Research Interests: Lifestyle risk factors and cancer prevention
Contact: megan_shanahan@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Master's Student
Education: 
2022-Present: MS Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2021: BSPH Environmental Health Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Bladder cancer prevention, environmental risk factors for cancer
Contact: llucas@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Master's Student 
Education: 
2023-Present: MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2023: MD, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Research Interests: Cancer incidence and risk factors
Contact: bwu@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Research Data Scientist
Education: 
2020: MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Boston University
2016: BS in Biology and Spanish, Gordon College
Research Interests: Early cancer detection and screening
Quality of life in cancer survivors
Disparities in prostate cancer
Contact: jvaselkiv@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Research Assistant III
Education:
2023: MS in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2021: BS in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Public Health Sciences, UMass Amherst
Research Interests: Aging in cancer survivors, quality of life in cancer survivors
Contact: hguard@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Research Assistant II
Education: 
2020: BA in Psychology and Public Health, Lehigh University
Contact: mbristol@hsph.harvard.edu

Position: Research Associate 
Education: 
2020-2022: Basic Specialist Training in Histopathology, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
2021: MPH, University College of Cork, Ireland
2018: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Obstetrics, University College Cork, Ireland
2014: BSc in Physiotherapy, University of Limerick, Ireland 
Research Interests: cancer prevention and early detection
tumor biomarkers and patho-epidemiology 
cancer survivorship
Contact: sflanagan@hsph.harvard.edu