Program in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention
The Program in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is one of the first comprehensive academic programs in the world dedicated to the training of cancer epidemiologists.
Epidemiology Department
677 Huntington Ave
Kresge, Floor 9
Boston, MA 02115
Members
Learn more about the current faculty, collaborators, post doctoral research fellows, and students who are a part of the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Program.
Faculty
Research Areas: Prostate cancer, Twin Studies; tumor biomarkers and patho-epidemiology; cancer survivorship; circadian rhythm
Research Areas: Cancer disparities; LGBT communities, oral contraceptives
Research Areas: Lung and esophageal cancer risk, survival and response to treatment; biologic markers and environmental, genetic and molecular epidemiology
Research Areas: Women’s health (primarily endometrial cancer, but also breast and ovarian cancer), Discovery and characterization of genetic biological markers
Research Areas: Causal inference methodology, early detection strategies
Research Areas: Breast cancer risk and prevention, lifestyle factors, hormones and biomarkers
Research Areas: Prostate and colorectal cancer, lifestyle factors relating to cancer and cancer prevention
Research Areas: Breast cancer, lung cancer, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, large prospective cohort study and environmental risk factors of cancer
Research Areas: Role of physical activity in preventing chronic diseases, enhancing longevity, and women’s health
Research Areas: Molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE); immuno-MPE;
pharmaco-MPE; causal inference-MPE; epidemiologic methods
Research Areas: Molecular epidemiology studies of cancer etiology, outcomes, health disparities, and global health
Research Areas: Comparative effectiveness of cancer treatment and prevention strategies, cancer screening, causal inference
Research Areas: Breast, lung, colorectal, kidney, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer, nutrition and cancer epidemiology
Research Areas: Colorectal cancer risk and survivorship, gut microbiota, nutrition, and chemoprevention
Research Areas: Prostate, breast, and colon cancer, etiology of chronic diseases and nutrition in relation to chronic diseases
Research Areas: Ovarian cancer, genetic susceptibility, lifestyle factors, and etiologic heterogeneity
Research Areas: Breast and colon cancer, biological markers, dietary relationships with cancer, and large cohort studies
Adjunct Faculty
Research Areas: Lung cancer and cancer prevention, molecular and genetic epidemiology and epidemiologic methods
Research Areas: Prostate cancer, oncology and patho-epidemiological studies
Research Areas: Breast, prostate and pancreatic cancer risk and prognosis
Inherited genetic risk factors, gene-environment interactions, statistical methods
Research Areas: Breast cancer, nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases, and cancer epidemiology
Research Areas: Genetic and lifestyle markers of aggressive prostate cancer
Research Areas: Prostate cancer, cancer prevention and survival, -omics tumor biomarkers
Research Areas: Boundaries of psychiatric and cancer epidemiology, influence of psychological stress on major disease onset and development
Emeritus Faculty
Research Areas: Prostate, cervix, colorectal, breast, and testicular cancer; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; NHL GWAS, case-control studies, cohort studies, screening, non-communicable diseases in Africa
Research Areas: Breast, colorectal, skin, and prostate cancer, cohort studies and gene-environment interactions
Collaborators
Institution: Queens University Belfast
Focus: Serum cholesterol levels, prostate cancer aggressiveness
Institution: Karolinska Institute, Orebro University
Focus: Determinants of cancer occurrence and progression, particularly in prostate cancer, and concentrates mainly on markers of psychological stress and inflammation
Institution: Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium
Focus: Integrative molecular prostate cancer epidemiology, biostatistical methods development, computational biology
Institution: University of Utah
Focus: Energy balance and cancer survivorship, cardiovascular disease prevention in cancer survivors
Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Focus: Diet and behavioral factors for prostate cancer, genetic and tissue-based biomarkers
Institution: Karolinska Institute
Focus: Molecular tumor features and lifestyle factors in prostate cancer etiology and progression
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Advisor: Edward Giovannucci
Focus: Lifestyle factors and prostate cancer prevention and survival.
Other interests: genetic and environmental interactions, biomarkers, aging.
Doctoral Students
Advisor: Mingyang Song
Focus: Obesity, colorectal cancer
Expected graduation: 2024 PhD, 2026 MD
Advisors: Stephanie Smith-Warner and Walter Willett
Focus: Nutrition and cancer epidemiology, causal inference methods, dietary assessment, environmental sustainability of the food systems
Expected graduation: 2026
Advisor: Barbra Dickerman
Focus: Causal inference to improve decision-making for cancer treatment and prevention
Expected graduation: 2027
Advisor: Mingyang Song
Focus: Modifiable risk factors, gene-environment interactions, multi-omic analysis, and colorectal cancer
Other interests: Inflammatory bowel disease
Expected graduation: 2029
Advisor: Dr. David Christiani
Focus: Interaction between structural, environmental, and biologic factors on cancer risk and outcome inequities
Other interests: LGBTQ+ health, translational epidemiology
Expected graduation: 2029
Advisor: Ed Giovannucci
Focus: Lifestyle factors, biomarkers, colorectal cancer
Other interests: Gene-lifestyle interaction, omics analysis
Expected graduation: 2027
Advisor: Mingyang Song
Focus: The interplay between diet, body composition, gut microbiome, host metabolomics and genetics for cancer etiology; novel microbial or metabolite-based signatures or biomarkers for cancer prevention and prognosis
Other interests: Clinical trials, machine learning
Expected graduation: 2028
Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Bladder cancer prevention, environmental risk factors for cancer
Expected graduation: 2028
Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Survivorship and quality-of-life in survivorship, survival and progression, and the role of lifestyle factors and emotional and social wellbeing during survivorship
Other interests: Cancer prevention and screening, positive psychology, health disparities, qualitative research
Expected graduation: 2026
Advisor: Brittany Charlton
Focus: Cancer disparities affecting the LGBTQ population
Other interests: Fattism and cancer, social epidemiology methods
Expected graduation:
Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: genetic and lifestyle factors for prostate cancer
Expected graduation: 2029
Advisor: Barbra Dickerman
Focus:
Expected graduation:
Advisor: David Christiani
Focus: Multi-omics and machine learning predictions for cancer treatment response; survival analysis; translational epidemiology
Other interests: gene-environment interaction; cancer prevention and screening
Expected graduation: 2027
Masters Students
Advisor: Lorelei Mucci
Focus: Cancer prevention, prostate cancer risk factors
Expected graduation: 2027
Advisor: Stephanie Smith-Warner
Focus: Lifestyle and dietary factors related to cancer prevention and survival
Expected graduation: 2026
Advisor: Jaime Hart
Focus: Multidisciplinary exposures and approaches to cancer rates, especially in minority populations
Expected graduation: May 2027