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Secondary Faculty

Howard D. Sesso

Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology

Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departments

Department of Epidemiology

Other Positions

Associate Professor of Medicine

Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Publications

  • Polygenic scores for risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: evaluation of novel and published models.

    Antwi SO, Coombes BJ, Carlson EE, Larson NB, Rabe KG, Atkinson HJ, Majumder S, Bamlet WR, Schaid DJ, Zhong J, McKean D, Arslan AA, Beane Freeman LE, Bracci PM, Canzian F, Truong T, Atkins J, Du M, Gallinger S, Goodman PJ, Katzke V, Campa D, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L, Neale RE, Patel AV, Wactawski-Wende J, Perdomo S, Shu XO, Visvanathan K, Van Den Eeden SK, White E, Zheng W, Albanes D, Andreotti G, Brennan P, Chanock SJ, Chen Y, Darst B, Ferrari P, Giovannucci EL, Goggins M, Haiman C, Hassan M, Hung RJ, Jones MR, Kraft P, Malats N, Moore SC, Ng K, Peters U, Porta M, Rothman N, Sánchez MJ, Sesso HD, Silverman DT, Southey MC, Milne RL, Um CY, Yu H, Yuan C, Risch HA, Wolpin BM, Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ, Klein AP, Amundadottir LT, Oberg AL. NPJ Precis Oncol 2026 May 27
    PMID: 42203843
  • Combining external placebo-arm data in a prevention trial: effects of cocoa extract supplementation on cardiovascular disease.

    Hamaya R, Li S, Rist PM, Shadyab AH, Manson JE, Sesso HD. Eur J Epidemiol 2026 May 18
    PMID: 42149390
  • Biomarker-Based Eligibility for Lung Cancer Screening: Validation of the Protein-Based INTEGRAL-Risk Model.

    Zahed H, Feng X, Alcala K, Smith-Byrne K, Moez E, Guida F, Albanes D, Weinstein SJ, Arslan AA, Cai Q, Shu XO, Zheng W, Chen C, Triplette M, Tinker LF, Langhammer A, Nøst TH, Hveem K, Milne RL, Bassett JK, Sheikh M, Malekzadeh R, Wang Y, Patel AV, Visvanathan K, Yuan JM, Wang R, Koh WP, Sesso HD, Zhang X, Johansson MB, Amos C, Hung RJ, Muller D, Robbins HA, Johansson M. JAMA 2026 May 18
    PMID: 42149699
  • Use of complementary health approaches and research interests among older adults in the COSMOS trial.

    Muñoz-Vergara D, Ma Y, Yang E, Park SJ, Burton WM, Kim E, Manson JE, Yeh GY, Wayne PM, Sesso HD. Am J Med 2026 Apr 24
    PMID: 42036005
  • Novel Genetic Risk Loci for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Identified in a Genome-wide Study of African Ancestry Individuals.

    Vergara C, Ni Z, Zhong J, McKean D, Connelly KE, Antwi SO, Arslan AA, Bracci PM, Du M, Gallinger S, Genkinger J, Haiman CA, Hassan M, Hung RJ, Huff C, Kooperberg C, Kastrinos F, LeMarchand L, Lee W, Lynch SM, Moore SC, Oberg AL, Park MA, Permuth JB, Risch HA, Scheet P, Schwartz A, Shu XO, Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ, Wolpin BM, Zheng W, Albanes D, Andreotti G, Bamlet WR, Beane-Freeman L, Berndt SI, Brennan P, Buring JE, Cabrera-Castro N, Campa D, Canzian F, Chanock SJ, Chen Y, Chung CC, Eliassen AH, Gaziano JM, Giles GG, Giovannucci EL, Goggins M, Goodman PJ, Hicks B, Hutchinson A, Jones MR, Katzke V, Kogevinas M, Kurtz RC, Laheru D, Lee IM, Malats N, Milne R, Mucci L, Neale RE, Orlow I, Patel AV, Peruchet L, Peters U, Porta M, Rabe KG, Real FX, Ricceri F, Rothman N, Sesso HD, Setiawan VW, Silverman D, Southey MC, Stampfer MJ, Tobias GS, Um C, Visvanathan K, Wactawski-Wende J, Wentzensen N, Willett WC, Yu H, Kraft P, Duggal P, Amundadottir LT, Klein AP. medRxiv 2026 Apr 22
    PMID: 42078392