Izzuddin Aris PhD

Izzuddin Bin Mohd Aris is an epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He earned his BSc in Biomedical Sciences with 2nd upper-class honors in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology in 2015, both from the National University of Singapore. As a doctoral student, he was awarded a university-sponsored scholarship to conduct his research examining the early-life determinants of childhood growth and body composition using data from a prospective birth cohort in Singapore. Upon graduating in 2015, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, where he continued his work in quantifying the relationships of pre-, peri- and postnatal risk factors with important childhood health outcomes. In 2017, he received a highly competitive university-sponsored fellowship from Singapore to support my advanced postdoctoral training at the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.