F M Hu

General / Preventive / Lipids

Brigham and Women's Hospital

About

F M Hu works in General / Preventive / Lipids affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dr. Frank B. Hu is Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his MD from Tongji Medical College and MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Nutritional Epidemiology at Harvard. His research focuses on diet, lifestyle, metabolic, and genetic determinants of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

Research focus

Nutritional epidemiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseasesDiet/lifestyle determinants of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and CVDNutritional metabolomics and precision nutritionGene-environment interactions in chronic diseaseNutrition transitions in low- and middle-income countries

Impact

21 pubs · 91 cites · h-index 2

Training

MD, Preventive Medicine
Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
MPH, Epidemiology
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
PhD, Epidemiology
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

Affiliations

Work Experience

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard University