# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-c-willett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:25:48.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-c-willett"
name: "Walter C. Willett"
slug: "walter-c-willett"
description: "Walter C. Willett is an American physician and nutrition researcher. He is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and was the chair of its department of nutrition from 1991 to 2017. He is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School."
tagline: "American nutritionist"
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country:
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birthDate: "1945-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump