Eric B. Rimm

Eric B. Rimm is a Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Director of the PhD Program in Population Health Sciences. He holds an ScD in Epidemiology from Harvard and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin. His research focuses on dietary patterns, nutritional biomarkers, and their impact on cardiometabolic diseases and colorectal cancer, including microbiome-metabolome interactions, coffee-timing effects on mortality, and precision nutrition. His recent work appears in Nature Medicine, the European Heart Journal, and JAMA Internal Medicine. Rimm collaborates extensively across the US, Europe, and Asia.