Cardiometabolic health

Current Projects

  • HOME Study
  • Cardiovascular health effects of ambient air pollution in the Women's Health Initiative
  • Cardiovascular health effects of indoor air pollution in Western Kenya and Hyderabad, India.
  • Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Health among Samoans
  • Women’s Health Initiative
  • Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA_Brasil)
  • Northern China Famine Study of Families
  • Wuhan Birth Cohort
  • Shanghai Obesity and Diabetes Study (S.O.S.)
  • Consortium of Asian Cardiometabolic Clinical Assessment Trial (CACAT)
  • Framingham Heart Study
  • Jackson Heart Study
  • New England Family Study
  • Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP)
  • CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Adults)

Courses

PHP 2018: Epidemiology of Cardiometabolic Health
PHP 1500: Global Health Nutrition 
CVD and Endocrine Grandrounds, CVI 

 

Faculty:

  • Joseph Braun

    Associate Professor of Epidemiology

  • Charles Eaton

    Professor of Family Medicine, Director of Center for Primary Care and Prevention

  • Alison Field

    Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics

  • Annie Gjelsvik

    Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics (Teaching Scholar), Faculty Scholar, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute

  • Karl Kelsey

    Professor of Epidemiology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Environmental Health and Technology

  • Simin Liu

    Director, Brown Center for Global CardiometabolicHealth (CGCH), Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Surgery, Professor of Medicine

  • Stephen McGarvey

    Professor of Epidemiology and Anthropology; Director, International Health Institute

  • Gregory Wellenius

    Adjunct Associate Professor, Boston University

  • Wen-Chih (Hank) Wu

    Professor of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology