Paolo Boffetta graduated in Medicine from the University of Turin in 1985 and obtained a Master's Degree in Public Health from the School of Public Health, Columbia University in 1988. He worked at the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization, the German Cancer Research Center, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. He is a Professor at the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, NY, and the University of Bologna, and is an adjunct Professor at Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, and Catholic University in Rome. His main fields of research are epidemiology and disease prevention, with emphasis on modifiable risk factors, containing the involvement of environmental exposure and personal behaviors, gene–environment interactions, molecular epidemiology, and evidence integration. He ranks 5th top among Italian Scientists in Clinical Sciences and has been included since 2015 in the Reuter Thomson List of the World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers.