About The Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology

The Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology is a part of the Department of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. It was founded with a mission to promote excellence in epidemiology and prevention research. Faculty in the Section specialize in epidemiology, biostatistics, data science, nutrition, public health, healthy aging, cardiometabolic diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, and much more. They are major thought-leaders in methods for studying chronic diseases of aging in populations and individuals, and they lead a number of prominent Centers, research programs, and training opportunities in the section and across Boston University including:

• The Framingham Center for Population and Prevention Science, home to the world-renowned Framingham Heart Study and its ancillary studies
• The Slone Epidemiology Center, home to the ground-breaking Black Women’s Health Study and its ancillary studies
• Master’s, doctoral, post-doctoral, and residency education and training programs in nutrition and metabolism and cardiovascular epidemiology, with areas of focus on translational epidemiology, statistical genetics and genomics, and computational biology and bioinformatics