Frank B Hu, MD, PhD, is Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health (MA, USA) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his medical training at Tongji Medical University in Wuhan, China and obtained a doctoral degree in Epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (IL, USA). Dr Hu is Co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard. He also serves as Director of the Epidemiology and Genetics Core of the NIH-funded Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center. His research is mainly focused on the nutritional and genetic epidemiology of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, as well as gene–environment interactions. Dr Hu has published more than 500 original papers and reviews and a textbook on ‘Obesity Epidemiology’. He is the recipient of an American Heart Association National Established Investigator Award and the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievemen...
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