In addition to his academic appointments at the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Medical School, Frank Hu serves as co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at the Harvard Chan School and as 7 director of the Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center Epidemiology and Genetics Core. Hu received his MD from Tongji Medical College in China and his PhD in epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association in 2010 and was named the American Heart Association’s Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer in 2018. He has served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the AHA/ ACC Obesity Guideline Expert Panel, and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Hu is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Frank Hu, MD, PhD
Steering Committee
Chair of Department of Nutrition, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention, Harvard T.H. Chan School; Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Epidemiology and Genetics Core