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Graham Colditz is an Epidemiologist with a focus on cancer prevention and chronic disease risk assessment. He served as the Principal Investigator of the Nurses’ Health Study, a significant cohort study that follows 121,700 U.S. women to assess lifestyle factors using biomarkers to evaluate chronic disease risks. His research has extensively studied the changes in tissue samples from participants with benign breast disease to predict future breast cancer risk. Colditz has also led a cohort study of 16,000 adolescents focused on the relationships between diet, physical activity, and weight gain. Additionally, his public health practice includes collaborations with the WIC program and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to enhance nutrition education and cancer prevention strategies. He was the Director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention and has been awarded the AACR Clinical Research Professorship and the DeWitt S. Goodman Lectureship for his contributions to cancer epidemiology. Colditz is also a Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and a member of the Institute of Medicine, reflecting his significant impact on public health and epidemiology education.
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences focus. Masters degrees include MPH and SM.