Rate My Professor Frank Hu

Dr. Frank Hu is Chair of the Department of Nutrition and the Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also serves as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Hu received his MD from Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. He earned his MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Nutritional Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Hu’s research focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases through diet and lifestyle factors, gene-environment interactions, nutritional omics, precision nutrition, and nutrition transitions in low- and middle-income countries. He directs the Dietary Biomarker Development Center at Harvard University. Dr. Hu has authored the textbook Obesity Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press, and more than 1,500 peer-reviewed papers, with an H-index of 320. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015. He has served on committees including the Institute of Medicine Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee, as well as on editorial boards for journals such as Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu has received awards including the Kelly West Award from the American Diabetes Association in 2010 and the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association in 2002.