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Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Izzuddin M. Aris, PhD is an epidemiologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. His research focuses on the paradigm of the developmental origins of health and disease, with an overall goal of quantifying the extent to which early life risk factors at critical developmental periods during the lifecourse affect important health outcomes. He has vast experience working with other prospective birth cohorts from multiple countries, including the United States (Project Viva), Republic of Belarus (PRomotion Of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial) and Singapore (Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes). Dr. Aris has made several contributions to the field including authoring over 190 peer-reviewed publications in notable journals and have received several awards for my work from both national and international societies. He has developed expertise on characterizing neighborhood contexts and their effects on important health outcomes, exemplified by funded projects that seeks to investigate this relationship in children (NIH/OD U2C OD023375-06) and women (NIH/NIA 5U54 AG062322-04). He is also participating in a recently awarded NIH grant investigating how food insecurity and related neighborhood and individual characteristics contribute to inequities in pregnancy conditions that lead to later obesity and cardiovascular risk (NIH/OD UG3 OD035533). He has also developed specific expertise on the topic of cardiovascular health in children, exemplified by my American Heart Association-funded study (AHA 23CDA1050962) that seeks to characterize cardiovascular health trajectories across childhood and adolescence, and identify its associated pre- and perinatal determinants.