Izzuddin Aris, PhD

Izzuddin M Aris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School. He received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences and his graduate degree in Epidemiology from the National University of Singapore. 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 prospective birth cohorts from multiple countries, including the United States (Project Viva), Republic of Belarus (PRomotion Of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial), Mexico (Programming Research in Obesity, GRowth, Environment and Social Stress), and Singapore (Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes), as well as cohort consortiums (ECHO and EGG). In addition, Dr. Aris has established methodological expertise in longitudinal modelling of trajectories of growth, and has developed substantial expertise on social determinants of health, exemplified by his current studies that investigates the role of neighborhood environments on health outcomes in children and women.