Julie Elizabeth Buring

Biography

The primary focus of my research has been on the epidemiology of chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer, and especially among women. I am Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator of four large-scale randomized clinical trials or their observational follow-up: the Women's Health Study, a primary prevention trial that evaluated the balance of benefits and risks of low dose aspirin and vitamin E on cardiovascular disease and cancer among 40,000 female health professionals; the Women's Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study, a secondary prevention trial that evaluated the roles of vitamin E, vitamin C, beta-carotene and folic acid/B6/B12 among 8,000 women with a prior history of heart disease; the Physicians' Health Study II, that evaluated vitamin E, vitamin C, beta-carotene and a multivitamin among 15,000 male physicians; and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Vanguard Center of the Women's Health Initiative, that evaluated the roles of low-fat diet, postmenopausal hormones, and calcium/vitamin D supplementation among over 70,000 women nationwide.

I am actively involved in the teaching and training of students and fellows in epidemiology, both nationally and internationally. I serve as Director of EPI 200: Principles of Epidemiology, a core course at the Harvard School of Public Health, am Director of a T32 NRSA Training Grant funded by the NIA in the Epidemiology of Aging, and Co-Program Director of a similar training grant in the Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease, funded by the NHLBI.

Awards and Honors

• John Snow Award, Epidemiology Section, 2008
  American Public Health Association
• Roger L. Nichols Excellence in Teaching Award, 2007
  Harvard School of Public Health
• Roger L. Nichols Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002
  Harvard School of Public Health
• Honorary Doctorate Degree, 2001
  Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Publications

• Effect of Daily Vitamin D Supplementation on Risk of Upper Respiratory Infection in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

  Camargo CA, Schaumberg DA, Friedenberg G, Dushkes R, Glynn RJ, Gold DR, Mora S, Lee IM, Buring JE, Manson JE. Clin Infect Dis 2024 May 15

• Association of hormonal and reproductive factors with differentiated thyroid cancer risk in women: a pooled prospective cohort analysis.

  O'Grady TJ, Rinaldi S, Michels KA, Adami HO, Buring JE, Chen Y, Clendenen TV, D'Aloisio A, DeHart JC, Franceschi S, Freedman ND, Gierach GL, Giles GG, Lacey JV, Lee IM, Liao LM, Linet MS, McCullough ML, Patel AV, Prizment A, Robien K, Sandler DP, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Weiderpass E, White E, Wolk A, Zheng W, Berrington de Gonzalez A, Kitahara CM. Int J Epidemiol 2024 Feb 01

• Self-reported oral health is associated with systemic health outcomes and all-cause mortality.

  Yu YH, Steffensen B, Chasman DI, Buring JE. J Am Dent Assoc 2024 03

• Effects of Vitamin D 3 Supplementation on Incident Fractures by eGFR in VITAL.

  Hsu S, Zelnick LR, Buring JE, Chou SH, Cook NR, D'Agostino D, Hoofnagle AN, LeBoff MS, Lee IM, Limonte CP, Sesso HD, Manson JE, de Boer IH. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2024 May 01

• The effect of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on pain prevalence and severity in older adults: a large-scale ancillary study of the VITamin D and OmegA-3 triaL (VITAL).

  Soens MA, Sesso HD, Manson JE, Fields KG, Buring JE, Lee IM, Cook NR, Kim E, Bubes V, Dushkes R, Serhan CN, Rathmell JP. Pain 2024 Mar 01