Paolo Boffetta  Paolo Boffetta (born July 19, 1958) is an Italian epidemiologist. He is doing research on cancer and other chronic diseases, where he contributed to the understanding of the role of occupation, environment, alcohol, smoking and nutrition in disease development. Boffetta was born in Turin, Italy, went to the Vittorio Alfieri High School in Turin, and studied medicine at the University of Turin and received a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1982, after which he became a resident at the Second Division of Internal Medicine and Research Fellow and Research Assistant at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit of the University of Turin. After some years, he moved to New York City and worked as a Research Assistant at the Department of Statistics and Epidemiology of the American Cancer Society (1986–88). He became a Research Assistant at the Division of Epidemiology of the American Health Foundation in New York, in 1988 and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Division of Environmental Sciences and Post-Doctoral Associate at the Division of Health Policy and Management of Columbia University, School of Public Health in New York (1988–89), where he was awarded a M.P.H.. In 1990, he moved to Lyon, France, to join the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, first as Medical Officer until 1994 and later as Chief of the Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology (1995–2003). During this time he was also Visiting Scientist at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, in Washington (1998/99), Foreign Adjunct Professor, at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Microbiology and Tumour Biology Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (2000–2006). In 2003, he moved on to the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, where he headed the Division of Clinical Epidemiology. He was awarded a Professorship for Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Heidelberg in the same year. Only a year later Boffetta moved back to IARC, Lyon to become Group Head and Coordinator of the Genetics and Epidemiology Cluster there. Between 2009 and 2020, he worked at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY, as Professor, Associate Director for Global Oncology at the Tisch Cancer Institute. During 2010-2016, he was Director of the Institute for Translational Epidemiology. In 2020 he joined Stony Brook University where he is professor in the Department of Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine and Associate Director for Population Sciences at Stony Brook Cancer Center.