Health Professionals Follow-Up Study
The Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS) evaluates how nutrition impacts men’s health and correlates to the incidence of serious illnesses, including cancer and heart disease.
Email
hpfs@hsph.harvard.edu
Phone
(617) 998-1067
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Location
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Meeting Sign-Up Information
- If you have analysis proposals using HPFS data, complete this additional Google Form prior to requesting to present. Note: ALL ANALYSIS PROPOSALS USING HPFS DATA SHOULD BE PRESENTED AT AN HPFS MEETING.
- The following Google Form link should be used for all types of presentation submissions, including analysis proposals, results, grant aims, and external collaborations. To be added to our meeting agenda, please fill out this form here:
- If you are submitting a grant application using HPFS, you MUST present your aims at an HPFS meeting (even if you presented at an NHS meeting). Please fill out the Google Form at least one week prior to presenting aims at an HPFS meeting. Contact Dr. Lorelei Mucci (lmucci@hsph.harvard.edu) to discuss budgets related to the HPFS as soon as possible and at least 4-6 weeks prior to internal grant deadlines.
- If you have results including HPFS, you can either
- present at NHS meeting and then we will circulate via email after the HPFS meeting or
- present at HPFS meeting. Please send the results document (as a PDF) by the Wednesday morning prior to the meeting to Dr. Lorelei Mucci (lmucci@hsph.harvard.edu) and CC Betsy Frost-Hawes (ehawes@hsph.harvard.edu)
Additional information:
- If you are an early career investigator (student, postdoc, etc.), your mentor is required to attend the meeting either in person or via teleconference.
- We will make copies of your proposal before the meeting. You do not need to bring copies.
- All teleconference information will be sent via email to the HPFS list serv in the agenda email that is sent the day before each HPFS meeting. It is the same link for every meeting. If you are not on the HPFS email list, please email Kathleen Florentine (kflorentine@hsph.harvard.edu) to be added.
- You must be on the HPFS list serv in order to receive the meeting agenda and zoom information
- Timing preferences indicated on the meeting agenda google form will be taken into account, but please note that although we try to accommodate everyone, timing during the meeting can vary
- Typically analysis proposals and grant aims last around 3-5 minutes of presentation, followed by questions and comments
- Typically results last 5+ minutes of presentation, followed by questions and comments
- If you would like the zoom link to the HPFS meetings prior to the agenda email, please reach out to Betsy Frost-Hawes (ehawes@hsph.harvard.edu)
- Results that have been presented at the NHS meeting will be circulated via email after the HPFS meeting. You are not required to attend the HPFS meeting.
- **If you sign up for a HPFS meeting date, you can assume that you are on the agenda for that date unless otherwise notified**
HPFS Meetings Schedule
** All in-person meetings will be held in the Kresge 9th Floor Conference Room unless noted otherwise **
2025 Meetings
- July 17, 2025 – Zoom; 3:00-5:00 PM
- July 31, 2025 – Zoom; 3:00-5:00 PM
- August 14, 2025 – Zoom; 3:00-5:00 PM
- August 28, 2025 – Zoom; 3:00-5:00 PM
- September 11, 2025 – Zoom and in person; 3:00-5:00 PM
- September 25, 2025 – Zoom; 3:00-5:00 PM
- October 9, 2025 – Zoom and in person; 3:00-5:00 PM
- October 23, 2025 – Zoom; 3:00-5:00 PM
- November 6, 2025 – Zoom and in person; 3:00-5:00 PM
- November 20, 2025 – Zoom; 3:00-5:00 PM
- December 11, 2025 – Zoom and in person; 3:00-5:00 PM *Room TBD*