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Harvey Risch, MD, PhD

Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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Chronic Disease Epidemiology

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States

About

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Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Biography

Dr. Harvey Risch is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Risch received his MD degree from the University of California San Diego and PhD, in mathematical modeling of infectious epidemics, from the University of Chicago. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the University of Washington, Dr. Risch was a faculty member in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Toronto before coming to Yale. Dr. Risch's research interests are in the areas of cancer etiology, prevention and early diagnosis, and in epidemiologic methods. He is especially interested in the effects of reproductive factors, diet, genetic predisposition, histopathologic factors, occupational/environmental/medication exposures, infection and immune functioning in cancer etiology. His major research projects have included studies of ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, lung cancer, bladder cancer, esophageal and stomach cancer, and of cancers related to usage of oral contraceptives and noncontraceptive estrogens. Dr. Risch is Associate Editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Editor of the International Journal of Cancer, and for six years was a Member of the Board of Editors, the American Journal of Epidemiology. Dr. Risch is an author of more than 400 original peer-reviewed research publications in the medical literature and those research papers have been cited by other scientific publications more than 55,000 times. Dr. Risch has an h-index of 114 and is a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering.

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Education & Training

Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington (1983)
PhD
University of Chicago (1980)
MD
University of California, San Diego (1976)
BS
California Institute of Technology (1972)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Esophageal Neoplasms; Germ-Line Mutation; Gonadal Steroid Hormones; Helicobacter pylori; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Molecular Epidemiology; Ovarian Neoplasms; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Polymorphism, Genetic; Stomach Neoplasms

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Harvey Risch's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    Early Outpatient Treatment of COVID-19 in Brazil

  • honor

    Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

  • honor

    The Ruth Leff Siegel Award for Excellence in Pancreatic Cancer Research

  • honor

    “Best of the AACR Journals” for “Aspirin Use and Reduced Risk of Pancreatic Cancer,” one of the most highly cited Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (CEBP) articles

  • activity

    Etiology of Pancreatic Cancer

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Mailing Address

Chronic Disease Epidemiology

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States