Chunming Chen
Board member
Professor Chen is an internationally recognized expert in nutrition. The founding President of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, previously know as the Academy of Preventive Medicine, she is currently the senior adviser of the institution and a professor of nutrition. She is an expert on the nutritional status of children and the general population in China, and on the shifting dietary patterns of the country due to economic change.
Professor Chen is also the founder of the Union School of Public Health, Beijing Union Medical University. She was a member of the World Health Organization’s Expert Advisory Panel on Nutrition, and a member of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization Expert Panel on Ethics of Food and Agriculture. She is currently the Chairman of the Board of the China’s Think Tank Research Center for Health Development. She founded the International Life Science Institute (ILSI) Focal Point in China, which is working on scientific information for addressing obesity in China.
She is the President of the Ethics Committee of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine and member of the Ethics Committee of Biomedical Research in Asia. Prior to this, she was the Dean of the Union School of Public Health and the Director of the Department of Health and Epidemic Prevention, under the Ministry of Health. She designed the current national system of nutrition monitoring in China and is the key supervisor of the system.
Professor Chen was nominated as the Fellow of International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) in 1997, and awarded the Gopalan Award by the Nutrition Society of India at the 9th Asian Congress on Nutrition in 2003.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences from the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of the National Central University of China in 1947.
