Albert Hofman, MD, PhD
Stephan B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health & Clinical Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair of the Department of Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Biography
Albert Hofman, MD, PhD is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Dr. Hofman was the Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology of the Erasmus Medical Center/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from 1988 until 2016.
Dr. Hofman is the initiator of two population-based cohort studies in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands: the Rotterdam Study (1990) and the Generation R study (2002). These studies have as shared features that they target multiple common diseases, have a very extensive and state-of-the-art assessment of the putative determinants of these diseases, and employ as much as possible new technologies to be applied in the setting of epidemiologic population studies. Dr. Hofman is also the initiator of the recently established Alzheimer Cohorts Consortium. His current research focuses on the intersection of public health and clinical medicine.