Center Directors

Dr. Habibul Ahsan
Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Public Health Sciences, Medicine and Human Genetics, Dean, Population and Precision Health and Director, Institute for Population and Precision Health, at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division
Habibul Ahsan, MD, MMedSc, serves as the Associate Director of Population Sciences for the Comprehensive Cancer Center and also as CEO of UChicago Research Bangladesh – a global affiliate of the University.
Dr. Ahsan has 20 years’ experience in multidisciplinary population and laboratory research integrating environmental, genomic and socio-behavioral factors within the context of etiology and prevention of cancer, cardiovascular and other chronic diseases of national and global public health significance. Trained in medicine, epidemiology, environmental health and genomics he authored or co-authored ~300 scientific publications.

Dr. Gail S. Prins
Michael Reese Professor in the Departments of Urology, Pathology, and Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine; Professor, Divisions of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago