Prof Zhang is a Chair Professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and the founding Director of the Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health (GloW) (www.glownus.org), and the Lead for
Population Health Study program of Asian Center for Reproductive Longevity and Equity (ACRLE). Prof. Zhang holds an Adjunct

Professorship in Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prof. Zhang is a clinical epidemiologist, and an expert in nutrition and lifestyle medicine and in women’s health research. Prof. Zhang’s work unites biochemistry, genetics, nutrition, and clinical medicine. It is at the interface of etiology and prevention strategies on cardio- metabolic health and healthy aging over the lifespan and across generations. She is leading a multi-disciplinary research program focusing on the improvement of women’s health and human potentials through diet and lifestyle modification, omics research, and early screening in general.

Prof. Zhang currently serves in the International Advisory Committee for Chinese National Birth Cohort, and the External Advisory Board for the Cohort of Mothers/Madres in Texas, USA (COMMIT). Prof. Zhang is an Associate Editor for journals of Diabetes Care and American Journal of Epidemiology, and an Editor-in-Chief (international) for the journal of Maternal and Fetal medicine.