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Eric Rimm

Eric Bruce Rimm is an American nutrition scientist and epidemiologist. He is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Harvard School of Public Health's Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology. He has researched the relationship between diet and the risk of chronic diseases such as obesity. Rimm was associated with the NIH-funded Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health (MACH15) study, which was terminated in 2018 after an NIH investigation found inappropriate interactions between study organizers, NIH officials, and alcohol industry representatives, and raised concerns that the study had been framed in a manner favorable to demonstrating protective effects of moderate alcohol consumption.

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Eric Rimm
Born
Eric Bruce Rimm

Buffalo, New York1
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin—Madison Computer Science
Harvard School of Public Health Epidemiology
Known forChronic disease epidemiology
AwardsAmerican Society for Nutrition General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
Nutrition science
InstitutionsHarvard School of Public Health
Harvard Medical School
Thesis Etiologic and methodologic studies of cardiovascular diseases in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study  (1991)

Eric Bruce Rimm is an American nutrition scientist and epidemiologist. He is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Harvard School of Public Health's Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology. He has researched the relationship between diet and the risk of chronic diseases such as obesity.2 Rimm was associated with the NIH-funded Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health (MACH15) study, which was terminated in 2018 after an NIH investigation found inappropriate interactions between study organizers, NIH officials, and alcohol industry representatives, and raised concerns that the study had been framed in a manner favorable to demonstrating protective effects of moderate alcohol consumption.345

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  1. Rimm, Eric (May 2018). "Eric Rimm Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  2. "Eric Rimm". Harvard School of Public Health. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  3. Rabin, Roni Caryn (2023-12-01). "Scientists in Discredited Alcohol Study Will Not Advise U.S. on Drinking Guidelines". The New York Times.
  4. Dyer, Owen (2018-06-19). "$100m alcohol study is cancelled amid pro-industry "bias"". BMJ. 361 k2689. doi:10.1136/bmj.k2689.
  5. "Report of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director on the Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health Trial" (PDF). National Institutes of Health. 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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