Assistant Professor
Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
I routinely employ qualitative and quantitative tools, field surveys, and laboratory examination of biospecimens (such as blood, saliva, and urine, among others) in large epidemiological datasets to unravel the link between environmental exposures (such as diet and diet-related metabolites in biospecimens) and ageing-related chronic diseases in the human population. This is essential to improve the current understanding of the significance of environmental, behavioural and biological predictors of chronic diseases to design context-specific public health interventions for the primary prevention of ageing-related chronic disease, particularly among underserved populations. Most of my research focuses explicitly on providing multi-stakeholder public health interventions derived from evidenced-based research on the significance of dietary intakes and diet-related biomarkers in biospecimens in the manifestation of age-related chronic diseases. This is important in designing recommendations and public health interventions for the primary prevention of chronic diseases in human populations. I also apply the constellation of socio-cultural, behavioural, and biological determinants of diseases in predicting the risk of chronic disease and identifying populations at risk for early intervention, prevention and management.