Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD

Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, is the Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His major research interests include epidemiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases through diet and lifestyle; gene-environment interactions and risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes; nutritional metabolomics in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; and nutrition transition, metabolic phenotypes, and cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries.

Dr. Hu serves as director of the Dietary Biomarker Development Center at Harvard University. He has published a textbook, Obesity Epidemiology (Oxford University Press), and more than 1,500 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Hu served on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. He has served on the editorial/advisory board of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.