Qi Sun

Sc.D. in Nutrition and Epidemiology, 2007, Harvard School of Public Health

M.M.S. in Social Medicine and Health Service Management, 2002, Beijing University Health Science Center

M.D., 1997, Beijing Medical University

Dr. Sun's primary research interests are to identify and examine dietary and biomedical risk factors for multiple health outcomes including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and healthy aging. His research is primarily based on a few large-scale cohort studies including the Nurses' Health Study I and II and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

Dr. Sun is also interested in the role of genetic risk factors in the relationship between biomedical risk factors and chronic disease. For example, he has conducted a few genome-wide association studies searching for genetic determinants for novel biomarkers and, subsequently, examined whether identified genetic risk factors may interact with lifestyle or dietary risk factors in disease etiology.