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ERIC DING, PhD, a nutritionist, epidemiologist, and biotech venturist, is a faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Founder and Director of the Campaign for Cancer Prevention (with 6.1 million online members) in association with CAUSES.

His academic research primarily focuses on obesity and nutritional risk factors for diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, as well as translation for population prevention, economics, public policy, and global health.

After completing his undergraduate degree at The Johns Hopkins University with Honors in Public Health and election to Phi Beta Kappa, he earned his dual doctorate in epidemiology and doctorate in nutrition at age 23 from Harvard University, where he was the youngest graduate from his doctoral programs. At Harvard, Eric has taught and lectured in more than a dozen graduate and undergraduate courses, for which he received the Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Award from Harvard College.

In addition to teaching, he has publish...