Yi Ying Ong

Yi Ying Ong, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Izzuddin Aris in the division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL). Her research vision is to maximize human potential through a lifecourse epidemiology approach, focusing on the interaction between multiple early life exposures. She received her PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS) where she investigated the early life determinants of child cardiometabolic risk in the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) cohort. She is awarded the NUS overseas postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the Developmental Origins of Behavior, Health, and Disease under the supervision of Dr. Henning Tiemeier in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dr. Izzuddin Aris in in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.