Weiwen Chai Associate Professor

Ph.D., Human Nutrition, University of Wyoming, 2004
NIH Postdoc Fellowship, Nutritional Epidemiology and Behavioral Cancer Prevention, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, 2009-2011

As a nutritionist with extensive training in behavioral, epidemiology and basic science, my goal is to understand the etiology of obesity and cancer and to contribute to strategies of chronic disease prevention. I am interested in studying how dietary, lifestyle, behavioral, socioeconomic, and biological factors influence the development of obesity and cancer through epidemiological studies and behavioral interventions.

My professional expertise includes:

• clinical and behavioral intervention studies in adults and children
• nutritional epidemiology and dietary analyses within large cohorts
• survey development and validation
• assessment of nutrition intervention
• multiple publications related to obesity, cancer and ethnic differences in disease risk
• analyses examining nutritional and inflammatory biomarkers with the risk of chronic diseases