About Yuming Chen’s work
Yuming Chen held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from June to December 1996. At the time, Chen was based at Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences.
Biography
Yuming Chen received his bachelor’s degree in preventive medicine from Central South University, master’s degree in medicine from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Chen currently serves as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Sun Yat-sen University, aas well as the Vice Vhairman of the Guangdong Nutrition Society and the Director of the Chinese Nutrition Society. He participated in the formulation and compilation of the 2013 and 2023 editions of the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) of Chinese Residents by the Chinese Nutrition Society.
In 2019-2021, he was selected as one of the China Highly Cited Scholars by Elsevier. In 2021~2022, he was selected as one of the Top 100 Academic Influential Scholars in the Field of Public Health in China in the Global Scholar Database. He establish the Guangzhou Nutrition and Health Research list. Chen's research interests are the epidemiology of factors such as nutritional diet and metabolic diseases, as well as the risk factors and prevention measures of chronic diseases.