Julie E. Buring, ScD
Senior Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Contact Information:
(p) 617-278-0863
(f) 617-731-3843
jburing@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
900 Commonwealth Avenue East, 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Dr. Buring is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Deputy Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Director of Research of the Harvard Medical School Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of chronic disease, primarily cardiovascular disease and cancer, and especially among women. Dr. Buring is involved in a number of large-scale clinical trials or observational cohort studies of the prevention of these diseases. She is Principal Investigator of the Women’s Health Study, a large-scale randomized trial of the benefits and risks of low-dose aspirin and vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer, conducted among 40,000 female health professionals, as well as of the extended follow-up of the participants. In addition, Dr. Buring is or has been involved in a number of other clinical trials, including the Physicians’ Health Study II, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Vanguard Center of the Women’s Health Initiative, and the Women’s Antioxidant and Folic Acid Cardiovascular Study. She is also co-Principal Investigator of a proposed trial on Vitamin D and fish oil in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer (VITAL). Dr. Buring is actively involved in the teaching and training of students and fellows in epidemiology, both nationally and internationally, and is Director of an NIH T32 training grant in the Epidemiology of Aging. She is co-author of a widely used introductory textbook, Epidemiology in Medicine. Dr. Buring was the recipient of the 2008 John Snow Award from the American Public Health Association for excellence in epidemiologic practice or research.