Frank B. Hu

Frank B. Hu, or HU Bingchang (Chinese: 胡丙长) (born in 1966), is a Chinese American nutrition and diabetes researcher. He is a Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, (formerly Harvard School of Public Health, as HSPH) and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He became the Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in January 2017.

Dr. Hu is also the Director of the Epidemiology and Genetics Core of the Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center; and Co-Director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Hu was elected into the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in October 2015, one of the highest honours in the fields of health and medicine.

A native of Hubei Province, China, Dr. Hu received his M.D. from the Tongji Medical University (now Tongji Medical School of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology) in Wuhan in 1988, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996.

Dr. Hu’s research has focused on diet/lifestyle, metabolic, and genetic determinants of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (CVD). His group has conducted detailed analyses of many dietary and lifestyle factors and risk of diabetes and CVD, including sugar-sweetened beverages, coffee, red meat, saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, iron, and dietary patterns. These findings have contributed to current public health recommendations and policies for prevention of chronic diseases. Dr. Hu’s group has also identified novel biomarkers (e.g., adipokines and nutrient metabolites) and gene-environment interactions in relation to risk of obesity and diabetes by integrating cutting-edge omics technologies into epidemiological studies (Systems Epidemiology approach). In addition, Dr. Hu has been collaborating with researchers from China to study nutrition transition, metabolic phenotypes, and cardiovascular disease in Chinese populations. His researches have also extended to global nutrition, obesity and policy issues.

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