Howard Sesso
Associate Epidemiologist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Epidemology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Biography
Dr. Howard D. Sesso is an Associate Epidemiologist at the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He designs and conducts randomized clinical trials and epidemiologic studies, focusing on dietary supplements, nutrition, and lifestyle factors to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension, cancer, and other aging-related outcomes. Dr. Sesso is Associate Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Director of Nutrition and Supplement Research at the Osher Center for Integrative Health. Dr. Sesso has been involved in several major trials at the Division of Preventive Medicine, helping lead the Physicians’ Health Study (PHS), conducting several ancillary studies in the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL, and co-leading the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS). He has also conducted several small-scale clinical trials testing dietary supplements and nutritional factors, plus initiated an Epigenetics Working Group stemming from several research grants across PHS, VITAL, and COSMOS. Further, Dr. Sesso is the Hub PI for the Boston COVID Recovery Cohort as part of the national Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) study. He has published extensively with more than 425 papers to date, teaches courses on clinical trials and epidemiology, and enjoys mentoring students and junior faculty.