| Prof. Cuilin Zhang is a Chair Professor on Women’s Health at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and the founding Director of the Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health (GloW), and the Lead for the Population Health Study program of the Asian Center for Reproductive Longevity and Equity. Prof. Zhang holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a clinical epidemiologist whose work unites nutrition, biochemistry, genetics, clinical medicine, and public health, and is at the interface of disease etiology and prevention strategies in the arena of women’s and children’s health over the lifespan and across generations.
She leads a multidisciplinary research program focusing on the improvement of women’s health and human potential through diet and lifestyle modification, omics research, and early screening, with a focus on nutrition and lifestyle, metabolic and genetic determinants, and health consequences of obesity, gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and related comorbidities across the lifespan. Prof. Zhang was the recipient of the Director’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding of Etiology and Risk Factors of Gestational Diabetes, NICHD, NIH. |
