Walter Willett
沃尔特·维利特
MD, DrPH
Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition流行病学与营养学弗雷德里克·约翰·斯塔雷教授
👥Biography 个人简介
Walter Willett is the world's most-cited nutritional epidemiologist. Through the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study, he established how diet, body weight, and physical activity influence cancer risk, reshaping global dietary guidelines and cancer prevention policy.
🧪Research Fields 研究领域
🎓Key Contributions 主要贡献
Diet-Cancer Associations
Produced definitive prospective evidence linking red and processed meat consumption, refined carbohydrates, and low fiber intake to elevated risks of colorectal, breast, and endometrial cancers.
Obesity and Cancer
Quantified the dose-response relationship between adiposity and at least 13 cancer types, underpinning WHO and ACS recommendations on weight management for cancer prevention.
Representative Works 代表性著作
Diet, nutrition, physical activity and cancer: a global perspective
Continuous Update Project Expert Report (WCRF/AICR) (2018)
Comprehensive global synthesis of evidence on diet, body composition, and cancer risk informing international prevention guidelines.
Reproducibility and validity of a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire
American Journal of Epidemiology (1985)
Foundational methodology paper enabling large-scale nutritional epidemiology studies worldwide.
🏆Awards & Recognition 奖项与荣誉
📄Data Sources 数据来源
Last updated: 2026-01-15 | All information from publicly available academic sources
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