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Garrett Lab

Our laboratory’s interest is in mucosal immunology and the gut microbiota. We mechanistically interrogate the role of microbes and their metabolites in shaping susceptibility and resistance to diseases, including cancer, inflammatory bowel diseases, and kidney diseases. 

Location

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

665 Huntington Avenue, Building 1, 9th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

In the News

  • August 16, 2016

    Guns & Suicide

    [contentarea class=”guns-opener” color=”#ffffff” background=”#212123″] There’s a gas station maybe a five-minute drive away from us, and the gas station sells guns. I didn’t realize places like that existed. Ryan just…

  • Chronic Diseases July 7, 2016

    More screen time, more obesity

    Americans are spending more time than ever looking at screens, according to a new Nielsen Company report. During the first quarter of 2016, U.S. adults spent an average of 10…

    In the Media
  • June 15, 2015

    HICRC wins paper of the year award  

    The journal Injury Epidemiology announced their inaugural award for paper of the year, which was won by HSPH doctoral student April Opoliner, with co-authors Deborah Azrael, Catherine Barber, Garrett Fitzmaurice, and senior…

  • December 27, 2012

    Newtown Tragedy

    HICRC researchers have been hard at work sharing what is known about the effects of firearm availability in the US since the terrible tragedy in Newtown on December 14. David…

  • Food, Nutrition, Diet September 11, 2012

    Public health and the U.S. economy

    [ Fall 2012 ] How the next U.S. president can stack the deck in favor of people’s health and wealth in 2013 With the November 2012 elections on the horizon,…