Faculty Bio

Dr. Eric Rimm is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School.   He is the Director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.  His research is focused on the health effects of alcohol, micronutrients, antioxidants and fatty acids and also on blood markers of risk.

Dr. Rimm served on the Institute of Medicine’s Dietary Reference Intakes for Macronutrients Committee, and is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and for Circulation.  He serves on the Executive Committee of the Epidemiology and Prevention Council of the American Heart Association and serves of the Board of Directors for Project Bread -The Walk for Hunger.

He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, Circulation, the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.