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Dr. Cuilin Zhang is a Chaired Professor on Women’s Health at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and the founding Director of the Global Center for Asian Women’s Health, and the Lead for Population Health Study program of 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.   Prof. Zhang currently serves in the Oversight Advisory Committee for Go Red for Women’s Health Research Network of the American Heart Association and is an Associate Editor for Diabetes Care and American Journal of Epidemiology, and serves in the editorial board for Precision Nutrition.

Prof. Zhang is a clinical epidemiologist, leading a multi-disciplinary research program uniting 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 lifespan and across generations.   Prof. Zhang has initiated and led multiple large cohort studies in the U.S. on nutrition, maternal and child health, diabetes and chronic diseases supported by National Institutes of Health   and National University of Singapore (> US$70 million). She has published 282 peer-reviewed articles many of which are in high impact clinical journals, achieving an H index of 74, spearheading the significant contributions of her highly acclaimed innovative, global, multidisciplinary research group on nutrition, diabetes, obesity, and women’s and children’s health.