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Walter C.
Willett, M.D., Dr. P.H.
Dr. Walter Willett is Professor of
Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of
Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of
Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He grew up in Madison,
Wisconsin, studied food science at Michigan State University,
and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School
before obtaining a Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard
School of Public Health. Dr. Willett has focused much of his
work overt the last 25 years on the development of methods,
using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, to study
the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases. He
has applied these methods starting in 1980 in the Nurses’
Health Studies I and II and the Health Professionals’
Follow-up Study. Together, these cohorts that include nearly
300,000 men and women with repeated dietary assessments are
providing the most detailed information on the long-term
health consequences of food choices.
Dr. Willett has published over 900 articles, primarily on
lifestyle risk factors for heart disease and cancer, and has
written the textbook, Nutritional Epidemiology, published by
Oxford University Press. His recent book for the general
public, Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School
Guide to Healthy Eating, has appeared on most major bestseller
lists. Dr. Willett is the most cited nutritionist
internationally, and is among the two most cited scientists in
clinical medicine worldwide.
He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences and the recipient of many national and
international awards for his research. |
