Faculty

Peter Kraft, Program Director
Professor of Epidemiology
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Research Interests:
Genetic epidemiology of complex disease; survival analysis

David J. Hunter, Founding Director
Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, Emeritus
Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition

Research Interests:
Cancer epidemiology; molecular and genetic epidemiology

Immaculata DeVivo
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology

Research Interests:
Etiology of cancer, specifically the relationship between genetic variation and disease risk for future prevention.

Timothy R. Rebbeck
Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention
Director of the Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention
Department of Epidemiology

Research Interests:
Molecular epidemiology of cancer, global health, health disparities

Alkes Price
Professor of Statistical Genetics
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Research Interests:
Population genetics and its relevance to disease mapping

Liming Liang
Associate Professor of Statistical Genetics
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Research interests:
Statistical genetics/genetic epidemiology; statistical method, theory and application; development of computational and statistical tools required for understanding human genetic variation, with a particular focus on complex human disease.

Lori Chibnik
Assistant Professor / Associate Biostatistician
Director, Global Initiative for Neuropsychiatric Genetics Education in Research (GINGER)
Department of Epidemiology | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Channing Division of Network Medicine | Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Department of Medicine | Harvard Medical School
Program in Medical and Population Genetics | The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Research Interests:
Genetics and epigenetics of Alzheimer’s Disease, cognitive decline, and Multiple Sclerosis; longitudinal data analysis and risk prediction

Kathryn L. Penney
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Epidemiologist
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Research Interests:
Genetic and molecular epidemiology of prostate cancer

Elise Robinson
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Broad Institute