Rate My Professor Graham Colditz

Dr. Colditz received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Queensland in 1979, Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from Harvard University in 1982, Doctor of Public Health in Epidemiology from Harvard University in 1986, and Medical Degree from the University of Queensland in 1998. He spent 25 years at Harvard University, serving as principal investigator on the Nurses’ Health Study (1996-2006), founding principal investigator on the Growing Up Today Study, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (promoted 1998), Associate Director of the Channing Laboratory (2005-2006), Director of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, and leader of the Cancer Epidemiology Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. His contributions include editing numerous books on cancer prevention and health promotion, serving as editor-in-chief of Cancer Causes and Control (1998-2006), and leading the Cancer News in Context blog. Major awards encompass the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2011), American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Prevention Research (2014), American Society of Clinical Oncology-American Cancer Society Award and Lecture (2014), American Cancer Society-Cissy Hornung Clinical Research Professorship (2004), and election to the Institute of Medicine (2006). Dr. Colditz has chaired National Academies committees, served on the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Advisors (2012-2017), and contributed to Surgeon General reports on tobacco, with his research cited over 241,000 times.