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Frank B. Hu is the Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, where he chairs the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He holds an MD from Tongji Medical College and an MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on dietary biomarkers, metabolomics, and the role of specific foods—including coffee, sugar-sweetened beverages, and monounsaturated fats—in type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. His recent work includes deep-learning models for predicting metabolite responses to diet and the Planetary Health Diet Index. He directs the Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center Epidemiology and Genetics Core and collaborates extensively with institutions across the US, Europe, and Asia.
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