CDA Oasis Conversations: Curbing Global Obesity Epidemic – From Science to Policy
Dr. Frank Hu, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard University, spoke with Dr. John O’Keefe about the intensification of global obesity and the implications of such a phenomenon on science and policy.
Dr. Hu is a distinguished lecturer at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Association for Dental research (AADR)/Canadian Association for Dental Research (CADR) which will take place March 16-19, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.
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Dr. Frank Hu is Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as Co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard and Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Epidemiology and Genetics Core. Dr. Hu received his MD from Tongji Medical College in China and a PhD in Epidemiology from University of Illinois at Chicago. His research is mainly focused on nutritional and lifestyle epidemiology and prevention of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease as well as gene-environment interactions. He has published >800 original papers and reviews (H-index 188) and a textbook on Obesity Epidemiology (Oxford University Press 2008). Dr. Hu is the recipient of the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology by American Diabetes Association in 2010. He has served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) 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 board of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2015.