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Staff Scientist
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS PROGRAM
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Dr. Ahearn received an M.P.H in epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in 2006 and a Ph.D. in nutrition and health sciences, epidemiology track, from the Graduate Division Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, in 2012. His dissertation was titled “The investigation and development of dietary and life-style modifiable, pre-neoplastic biomarkers of risk for colorectal neoplasms.” Upon completion of his Ph.D., he became a postdoctoral fellow and most recently, a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In September 2016, Dr. Ahearn joined the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program as a staff scientist, where he will be working under the direction of Dr. Montserrat García-Closas to support her program of integrative molecular epidemiology research
pathways and risk factors for cancer; development of primary and secondary cancer prevention; novel treatment strategies