Jorge E. Chavarro

Jorge E. Chavarro, M.D., Sc.D., is Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from the National University of Colombia and subsequently obtained masters and doctoral degrees in Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard University. Dr. Chavarro’s research focuses on understanding how nutritional, lifestyle and metabolic factors impact reproductive events and milestones throughout the life course, and how these events, in turn, impact other aspects of health. His work has included evaluating nutrition and lifestyle as modifiable risk factors for pubertal onset, infertility and infertility treatment outcomes, adverse pregnancy outcomes, health trajectories of children exposed to adverse pregnancy outcomes, and the health of women during the menopausal transition.

Dr. Chavarro is Principal Investigator of research infrastructure grants covering activities in three large population-based cohort studies – the Nurses’ Health Study II, the Nurses’ Health Study 3, and the Growing Up Today Study –, which collectively follow nearly 190,000 individuals and serve as an important research and training resource to investigators interested on nutritional, reproductive and chronic disease epidemiology with a life course perspective. He also leads the nutritional component of the EARTH Study – a prospective cohort of couples undergoing infertility treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital – and of the Young Men’s Studies consortium, which studies how the environment influences testicular function by studying young men in Denmark, Spain and the United States. His work has resulted in over 350 scientific publications and has been recognized by awards from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and other organizations. He has served in the editorial boards of leading journals in reproductive medicine and serves as a standing member of the Pregnancy and Neonatology review panel for the US National Institutes of Health.