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CURRICULUM VITAE (short version)

YOUFA WANG, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.

Campus Address: Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, MS, FTOS John & Janice Fisher Endowed Chair of Wellness Associate Director, Fisher Institute of Health and Well-being Director, Systems-Oriented Global Childhood Obesity Intervention Program Professor, Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences College of Health, Ball State University Office: HP 302E, Muncie, IN 47306; Phone: 765-285-8121 Email: ywang26@bsu.edu; youfawang@gmail.com EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2001, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health; Predoctoral trainee of Carolina Population Center (Field: Nutritional Epidemiology), Thesis: Socioeconomic factors, dietary patterns, and nutritional status of Chinese adolescents Ph.D. program 1995-96, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Canada (Field: Pathology) M.S. 1995, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (Field: Epidemiology), Thesis: NIH/AIDS Prevention among Workers Going Overseas M.D. 1992, Beijing Medical University (now merged with Peking University)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2016- John & Janice Fisher Endowed Chair of Wellness; Associate Director, Fisher Institute of Health and Well-being; Director, Systems-Oriented Global Childhood Obesity Intervention Program; Professor, Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, College of Health, Ball State University

2014-2016 Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions; Director, Systems-oriented Global Childhood Obesity Intervention Program; Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo

2016- Adjunct Distinguished Professor, Founding Dean of Global Health Institute, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University

2016- Adjunct Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University

2015- Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health and Health Behavior,

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School of Public Health and Health Professions, UB-SUNY 2013-2014 Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health,

School of Public Health and Health Professions; Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, UB-SUNY

2013- Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

2007-2013 Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Department of Epidemiology (joint appointment), Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University 2011-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society (joint appointment), Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

2011-2013 Founding Director, Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity--Where Systems Science Meets Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

2013- present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

2012- present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

2010- present Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, Fudan University 2009- present Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, Peking University 2009- present Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University 2004-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of International Health Human Nutrition Program, Department of Epidemiology (joint appointment), Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University 2001-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago 2001-2004 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago

2002 June-August, Visiting Scholar, School of Public Health, Harvard University 2002-2004 Assistant Professor (joint appointment), Division of Nutritional Sciences,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

2016, The 2016 China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS) Inspiration Award

(elected by a committee consist of international leading scholars including professors from the Harvard University and University of California at Berkeley based on the candidates’ outstanding scientific contributions and leadership on a global scale)

2015-, Fellow of The Obesity Society (Quote from the certificate: The fellowship “is one of the highest honors bestowed by The Obesity Society.” “The prestigious mark of the FTOFs

distinction sets you apart, by acknowledging your high level contributions to the field of obesity, research, treatment and/or prevention.”)

2012, Johns Hopkins University Leadership Development Program. Participation is by invitation only, based on nominations from Deans, Vice Presidents and other senior university officers and administrators. Usually each year only 2-3 people from each school such as new department chairs, associate deans, and program directors will be selected.

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2010, Dannon Institute Academic Mid-Career Nutrition Leadership Institute (only about 20 people from North America were selected and some are department chairs; aimed to train leaders in the nutrition field) 2005, The Dannon Institute’s Nutrition Leadership Institute (only 18 people were selected; aimed to train junior scientists including assistant professors to become future leaders in the nutrition field) 2005, American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) Travel Award (in connection with the 18th International Congress of Nutrition, Durban, South Africa, Sept 19-23) 2004, University of Illinois General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Annual Travel Award 2001-, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health 2001, American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) Travel Award (in connection with the 17th International Congress of Nutrition, Vienna, August 27-31) 2000, Chunhui Award, Chinese Ministry of Education 1996-2000, Carolina Population Center Predoctoral Traineeship (funding source: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH)), UNC

PROFESSIONAL / PUBLIC SERVICE Society Membership and Leadership

• Vice President, Chinese Preventive Medicine Association—Chinese Society on Global Health (2016-)

• Chair-Elect, Chair, Past-Chair, The Obesity Society (TOS) Pediatric Obesity Section (2015-2018)

• President elect, President, Past President, The North America Chinese Society for Nutrition (NACSN, 2014-2017)

• Vice President, The North America Chinese Society for Nutrition (NACSN, 2011-2015) • Secretary/Treasurer, The Obesity Society (TOS) Pediatric Obesity Section (2014-2015) • Fellow, The Obesity Society (TOS), 2015- • Chair Elect, Chair, Past Chair, American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Nutrition Epidemiology

Research Interest Section (2009-2012) • Councilor, The Obesity Society (TOS) Pediatric Obesity Section (2010-2012) • The Obesity Society (TOS)'s Annual Program Committee (Population Studies Track, 2010-

2011) • Affiliate Member, African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACOR,

2010-) • Executive Committee and Fundraising Director, China Health Policy and Management Society

(2014-) • Founding member and Executive Committee, China Health Policy and Management Society

(2009-2014) • Vice Secretary General, The Society of Chinese American Professors and Scientists (2003-

2004) • Member, American Society for Nutritional Sciences (1997-) • Member, Society for International Nutrition Research (1997-) • Member and assisted review abstracts submitted to annul meetings since 2005, North American

Association for the Study of Obesity (1999-) • Member, International Association for the Study of Obesity (1999-)

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• Member, American Statistical Association (2000-2002) • Member, American Public Health Association (2000-2002) • Member, American Diabetes Association (2001-2003) • Member, Society for Epidemiologic Research (1999-2003)

Participation on Advisory/Review Panels/Committees (Note the service has ended unless being specified) Domestic: 2017-, NIH Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies (HDEP) Study Section 2017, NIH Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics Study Section 2017, NIH Grant Review Committee, Dissemination and Implementation Review in Health (DIRH) Study Section 2016, NIH Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention (PRDP) Study Section 2016, NIH Grant Review Committee, Dissemination and Implementation Review in Health (DIRH) 2015, NIH Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies (HDM) Integrated Review Committee 2012, NIH Grant Review Committee, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) 2012, NIH Grant Review Committee, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) 2011, NIH Grant Review Committee, National Center for Research Resources U54 Center grants 2011, NIH Grant Review Committee, Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior IRG 2011, NIH Grant Review Committee, NHLBI K23/K24/K25 grants 2010, NIH/NIHLB Grant Review Committee, Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE, R25 grants) 2010, NIH Grant Review Committee, National Centers for Biomedical Computing 2010, NIH Grant Review Committee, NHLBI, Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research consortium 2010, NIH Grant Review Committee, NIDDK, Translational Research applications 2009, NIH Grant Review Committee, NIH-Support Centers for Population Health and Health

Disparities 2009, NIH Grant Review Committee, NHLBI American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Health Disparities Grants 2009, NIH Grant Review Committee, NICHD American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Challenge Grants 2009, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Grant Review Panel 2009, Panelist, Institute of Medicine's Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease: Meeting the Challenges in Developing Countries, April 13-14, 2009, Washington, DC 2009, Panelist, Health Affairs Childhood Obesity Thematic Issue Planning Committee 2008, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Review Panel, "Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers" 2008, Expert advisor, Childhood Obesity Committee, Council on Heart Disease and Stroke, Family Health Administration, Office of Chronic Disease Prevention, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 2008, NIH Grant Review Committee, Special Emphasis Panel review on "Translational Research for

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the Prevention and Control of Diabetes," National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) 2008, NIH Grant Review Committee, Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior Integrated Review Group, Center for Scientific Review 2008, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Grant Review Committee, CDC Public Health Research Dissertation Awards 2007, NIH Grant Review Committee, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), RFA for Clinical Nutrition Research Unit Core Centers 2007, NIH Grant Review Committee, Risk, Prevention, & Health Behavior Integrated Review Group 2007-, Advisory Board, National Childhood Obesity Foundation (ongoing) 2007, Review Committee, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement Program Interim Performance Review 2007, Reviewer, American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement, "Population Based Prevention of Obesity: Comprehensive Promotion of Healthful Eating, Physical Activity, and Energy Balance" 2006, NIH Grant Review Committee, Psychosocial Risk & Disease Prevention (PRDP) Study Section 2005, NIH Grant Review Committee, Health of the Population (HOP) 2005, NIH Grant Review Committee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 2005-07, NIH Loan Repayment Program Reviewer, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities 2005-06, Abstract Reviewer, North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) Annual Meetings 2004, Nominator, The MacArthur Fellows Program, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation 2003, NIH Grant Review Committee, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2003, American Medical Association Working Group on Managing Childhood Obesity, Chicago 2003-2011, Scientific Advisory Board, UIC Health Research and Policy Centers 2003, Reviewer, The MacArthur Fellows Program, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation International: 2018, Keynote speaker, Chair of sessions, The 4th Congress on Childhood Obesity and Hypertension, Ha’erbin, China, Sep 5-8, 2018 2018, Instructor, Global health workshops, Organized by The Center of Global Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) , Beijing, Sep 6-8, 2018; Zhuhai, China, Sept 13-15, 2018 2018, Invited speaker, the 18th Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine, Osaka, Japan, May 25-27, 2018 2017, Symposium chair and Keynote speaker, “The “One Road One Belt” initiative and opportunities for international collaboration in nutrition and public health field” at The 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Clinical Nutrition, Adelaide, Australia, Nov 26- 29, 2017 2017, Conference President, Session chair, Speaker, The 2017 Belt and Road Initiative Global Health International Congress & 2017 Chinese Preventive Medicine Association-Chinese Society on Global Health Annual Meeting, Xian, Shaanxi, China, Sep 24-26, 2017 2016, Chair of sessions; Keynote speaker, “International Guidelines on Childhood Obesity Treatment, Management and Prevention”, The 2nd Congress on Childhood Obesity and Hypertension, Nanjing, China, Sep 8-9, 2016. 2016, Chair, Scientific session “Home Environment and Influences of the Wider Environment”, The

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13th International Congress on Obesity held in Vancouver, Canada in May 1-4, 2016 (Invited by the World Obesity Federation)

2016, Speaker, Scientific session “The Costs of Obesity: Labour, Productivity and Healthcare”, The 13th International Congress on Obesity held in Vancouver, Canada in May 1-4, 2016 (Invited by the World Obesity Federation)

2015, Expert panel and speaker, “Energy Balance and Obesity Workshop” organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, December 7-8, 2015 (as one of 17 international leaders invited by the WHO for the project; a full report and research paper were completed and published in 2017, see below)

2015, Chair, International Academic Committee, Keynote speaker. The 1st International Congress on Childhood Obesity and Hypertension, Beijing, China, May 29-31, 2015. 2011, Expert panel and invited speaker, “Meeting on Mortality crises: violence, famine, natural disasters and epidemics of non-communicable diseases”, organized by United Nations (UN) Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York City, Nov, 2011 2011, Expert panel, "Global Obesity Prevention Experts Meeting ", organized by Bloomberg Philanthropies, New York City, June 7, 2011 (only 9 global leaders in the obesity research field were invited) 2009, Chair, Symposia, “Obesity and Related Economic Issues” in The 7th World Congress on Health Economics, July 12-15, 2009, Beijing, China. 2009, Panelist, Healthy China 2020 – The Westlake Forum, Hangzhou, China, Feb 8-11, 2009. 2005-2011, Member, International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) Task-Force on Diet, Nutrition and Long-term Health for the Quadrennium 2005-2009. 2004-2006, Expert Committee, to help develop a new International Growth Reference for Children and Adolescents, United Nations University Food and Nutrition Program in collaboration with FAO and WHO 2006-, Grant Reviewer, Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Disease (RFCID) and the Health and Health Services Research Fund (HHSRF). Health, Welfare and Food Bureau (HWFB) of the Hong Kong SAR Government 2006, United Nations (UN) Consultant, invited to help write The 2007 UN World Youth Report, working with the Division for Social Policy and Development of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2005, Member, International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) Long Term Health Task Force. Facilitate analysis of US-based experts’ evaluation of WHO reports, "Joint WHO/FAO Expert Report on Diet, Exercise, and the Prevention of Chronic Disease", "Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health" 2005, Grant Reviewer, National Prevention Research Initiative, Medical Research Council, United Kingdom 2004, Scientific Committee, International Symposium--Childhood Obesity: From Basic Knowledge to Effective Prevention, and 14th Workshop European Childhood Obesity Group, Sept 23-25, Zaragoza, Spain 2003, External Grant Proposal Referee, The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research 2002-2004, Expert Committee, The International Obesity Task Force Childhood Obesity Programme (assisted the development of a childhood obesity report to the WHO) 2002-2004, Working Group on Childhood Obesity, Asia-Oceania Association for the Study of Obesity

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Editorial activities

1) Editorial Board 2018-, Editorial Board, Child and Adolescent Obesity 2017-, Associate Editor, Journal of Global Health 2008-, Editorial Board, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2009-2014, Associate Editor, BMC Public Health 2009-2015, Associate Editor, Journal of Obesity 2010-2018, Editorial Board, Advances in Nutrition, (A journal of the American Society for Nutrition) 2011-2013, Associate Editor, International Journal of Pediatric Obesity (new name, Pediatric

Obesity; an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO). 2011-, Editorial Board, Current Obesity Reports

2) Manuscript Reviewer (selected) American Heart Association (AHA) Statements Manuscript, "Population Based Prevention of Obesity: Comprehensive Promotion of Healthful Eating, Physical Activity, and Energy Balance", 2007 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition American Journal of Hypertension American Journal of the Medical Sciences American Journal of Preventive Medicine Appetite Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition BMC Public Health Bulletin of the World Health Organization Contemporary Economic Policy Economics and Human Biology Epidemiology Ethnicity and Health European Journal of Clinical Nutrition European Journal of Epidemiology Food and Nutrition Bulletin Future Lipidology Health Affairs Hypertension

International Journal of Obesity International Journal of Pediatric Obesity Journal of Adolescent Journal of Adolescent Health Journal of American Dietetic Association Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Journal of Food Composition and Analysis JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Journal of Nutrition Journal of Pediatrics

Journal of the Royal Society of Health Journal of School Health

Lancet Obesity (former, Obesity Research) Obesity Review Pediatrics Preventive Medicine Public Health Nutrition Public Health Reports Royal Society for Public Health Social Science and Medicine

RESEARCH GRANT PARTICIPATION Title: Socioeconomic disparities in early origins of childhood obesity and body mass index trajectories Funding: HRSA (R40MC31880, $100,000, 7/01/2018-6/30/2019) (HRSA - Health Resources and Services Administration, MCHB - Maternal and Child Health Bureau) Objectives: To understand when and why socioeconomic disparities in childhood obesity start in early life, and how to reduce these disparities through food assistance policy and well-child care. Role: PI of subcontract (PI: Xiaozhong Wen)

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Title: Acquisition of a GPU-based Cloud Infrastructure for Inter-/multi-disciplinary Research and Education at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution Funding: National Science Foundation ($331,133, 8/1/2017 – 7/31/2020) Objectives: To establish a GPU-based cloud at Ball State University to promote big data related interdisciplinary research and education projects including health informatics and systems related obesity and non-communicable chronic diseases research. Role: Co-PI (PI: Shaoen Wu) Title: Food Assistance, Diet and Body Weight Status among WIC Eligible Children Funding: NIH/NICHD (R03HD090387-01, $155,000, 1/1/2017~12/31/2018) Objectives: To examine the impact of WIC program on WIC eligible children’s diet and body weight Role: PI of subcontract (PI: Qi Zhang) Title: “Health Outcomes and Redemption Behaviors among Virginia WIC Participants” Funding: US Department of Agriculture/Economic Research Service (#58-4000-6-0061-R, $90,000, 8/18/2016~07/30/2019) Objectives: To study the health outcomes and redemption Behaviors of WIC Participants in Virginia State, USA. Role: PI of subcontract (PI: Qi Zhang) Title: Study and support of vulnerable children from floating families in China. Funding: Chinese Social Science Foundation Key Projects (RMB 800,000, 1/2016-12/2020) Objectives: This is a multi-institution collaboration project that includes five sub-projects. The project aims to develop a system to incorporate “research-policy-practice”, to promote the wellbeing of vulnerable children and adolescents from floating families in China. We will collect data from multiple sources to develop a large data base to support related research. The focus is children aged 6-15 years old who stayed at home with care providers (other than their parents who left home to work in other places). Role: Co-I (PI: Danhua Lin; the project is recently funded) Title: “University of Buffalo Clinical and Translational Research Center” Funding: NIH (Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), 1UL1TR001412-01, $16 million, 8/2015-3/2019) Objectives: To establish the UB Clinical and Translational Research Center as the hub of the Buffalo Translational Consortium (BTC). The BTC, which includes 12 major academic, research and healthcare institutions and 5 influential community partners, has embarked on a comprehensive strategic plan to build a strong foundation for clinical and translational research in response to our community needs. The CTRC and other enormous BTC investments to build a 21st century Academic Health Center creates a setting for a CTSA to provide the key piece to transform our capacity to bring discoveries in the laboratory, the clinic and the community to benefit individual and public health by sharing expertise and innovative approaches to translational science as part of the national consortium. We will bring strengths to the CTSA consortium, including developing novel health informatics tools, leveraging our strength as a leading center on research in standards and ontologies; new approaches to community-based research developed with our community; testing and disseminating ontology-based methods to share translational image data, etc. Role: Faculty (PI: Timothy Murphy)

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Title: ASPIRE ADVANCE Grant Proposal Award Funding: Ball State University internal seed grant ($5,000, 6/1/2017-5/31/2018) Objectives: To help conduct pilot studies and obtain preliminary results to support extramural grant applications. Role: PI Title: Interdisciplinary, Systems Approach & Big Data Enhanced Obesity Research Funding: Ball State University Digital Scholar Lab Faculty Fellowship ($10,000, 5/1/2017-4/30/2018) Objectives: To develop prototype systems models, build cloud-based digital analytical and visualization platforms and tool kits, develop a large database/data repository and obtain preliminary results to support our NIH R21 and R01 grant applications. Role: PI Title: “Systems-Oriented Pediatric Obesity Research and Training (SPORT) Center Grant” Funding: NIH/NICHD (1 U54 HD070725-01, U54 Center grant, $16.1 million, 9/2011 - 12/2017. The U54 includes 4 cores and 3 key research projects, originally 40% as PI and reduced to 15% in 2013 due to job change) Objectives: To establish a Global Center of Excellence of childhood obesity and chronic disease research and training based on a transdisciplinary systems science framework and systems-based methodologies, including the use of systems modeling to capture the complexity of the etiology of childhood obesity and the potential impact of environmental and policy interventions. Over 50 well established investigators from 30 leading US and international institutions bring transdisciplinary expertise to bear in highly relevant areas. The Center will build upon a solid research and training base with ongoing NIH funded projects directly related to childhood obesity and systems analysis. The center, structured as U.S. institutions in partnership with international institutions, will undertake epidemiological research linking biological with environmental and macrosocial factors of childhood obesity, conduct and provide developmental research funding for environmental and policy evaluations and/or interventions, and establish an infrastructure for postgraduate systems-oriented research and training in the field of obesity and chronic disease prevention and control. The Centers includes 4 cores and 3 key research projects. The 4 cores are: Administrative Core, Research Resources Core, Education and Training Core, and Rapid Response and Pilot Study Core. The 3 key projects include a cohort study in Pennsylvania and a community-based intervention study in Baltimore in the U.S., and a national epidemiological study in China (see below) Role: Original PI; Founding Director of the new Center (Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity) established based on the U54 award and additional institutional funding support; roles changed due to job change Title: "Multilevel Systems-oriented Childhood Obesity Study In China" (one of the three key research projects in the NIH U54 Center grant) Funding: NIH/NICHD (1 U54 HD070725-01, $2.1 million, 9/2011/9 - 12/2017, 15%) Objectives: To use a systems-oriented conceptual framework, unique rich longitudinal data collected in China from large cohorts, and novel systems analysis to study the interplay, impact, and feedback loops of the built, social, economic, environmental and policy factors and their changes on individual children and their families' decisions, eating, physical activity, and adiposity outcomes. We will also study why some individuals /families may respond differently to the environments and how they may affect their environments. China offers an unprecedented opportunity for systems-oriented pediatric

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obesity research considering its large population size, area and regional contextual variation; the rapid economic growth and many social- environmental transformations over the past 2-3 decades including dramatic changes in its food systems and food environment. The large variance and change in macro-level contextual variables and in health outcomes including obesity can help advance understanding of disparities in the U.S. through comparative studies. Findings will have many important policy implications for the U.S. and other countries. Role: PI Title: “China Obesity Blue Paper Project- a comprehensive national obesity prevention and control program” Funding: Chinese Nutrition Society ($ 30,300, 3/2016-12/2017) Objectives: Working with of a group of internationally recognized experts and scholars in the field of obesity research and management in China and overseas to review and summarize the evidence on the obesity epidemic, diagnosis, treatment and prevention; develop obesity prevention and treatment guidelines and strategies and standardize evaluation including for specific population groups and settings in China. The project will help promote international collaboration and related efforts in China to prevent and control the obesity epidemic including through national programs and policies; and promote research of obesity and chronic diseases, especially related international and interdisciplinary collaborations. Role: PI Title: "Pilot Study on pediatric obesity prevention by maternal smoking cessation in pregnancy and lactation" Funding: NIH/ NCATS (UL1TR001412 Pilot, $75,000, 11/01/2015-03/31/2017) Objectives: This pilot study aims to examine the effects of maternal smoking cessation intervention in pregnancy on infant gain in weight-for-length (WFL) z-score from birth to 6 months; and to examine the effect of maternal smoking abstinence intervention in lactation and infant post-weaning gain in WFL z-score among the women who have successfully quit smoking in pregnancy. Two-phase randomization is applied to separate the effects of smoking cessation in two different critical periods (i.e., pregnancy and lactation) on infant adiposity gain. Role: Co-I (PI: Xiaozhong Wen) Title: "Causes and Interventions for Childhood Obesity: Innovative Systems Analysis" Funding: NIH (1R01HD064685-01A1, $1.6 million, 9/29/2010 - 6/30/2016, 30%) Objectives: Using integrated conceptual framework, innovative statistical analysis approaches, and rich data from multiple sources we will study how complex factors may affect childhood obesity and test potential intervention options Role: PI Title: “Systems-Based Intervention Trial: Multi-level Obesity Prevention Study (Be More Healthy, Community for Kids)” (one of the three key projects in the NIH U54 Center grant) Funding: NIH/NICHD (1 U54 HD070725-01, $1.9 million, 9/2011/9 - 12/2016) Objectives: This is an intervention trial which will operate at multiple levels of the Baltimore City food system. The study aims to increase affordability, availability and consumption of healthy foods within low-income, predominantly African-American neighborhoods. Role: Co-I (PI: Joel Gittelsohn)

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Title: “Understanding Disparities In Obesity and Its Comorbidities In the U.S.” Funding: NIH/NIDDK (R01DK81335-01A1, $1.2 million, 7/2009-4/2013, 25%) Objectives: The study is a systematic investigation to understand the individual-, family-, and community-level causes of ethnic/SES disparities in obesity and its comorbidities including type 2 diabetes and hypertension in the U.S. using an interdisciplinary approach. Role: PI Title: “Multilevel communications and access strategies to improve the food environment” Funding: NIH / NHLBI (1R21HL102812-01A1, direct costs $205,000, 2011/6/1-2014/5/31, 5%) Objectives: To conduct formative research and pilot pricing and social marketing intervention to change availability of healthy foods and promote them at the wholesaler, retailer and consumer levels. Role: Co-I (PI: Joel Gittelsohn) Title: "Influences of prenatal nutrition, genetics, childhood growth trajectory, sexual maturation, and their interactions on metabolic outcomes during puberty: A twin study" Founding: NIH/NIDDK (P60 DK0079637, the Baltimore Diabetes Research and Training Center Pilot and Feasibility Programs, $164,000, 4/2010-1/2013, 5%) Objectives: To examine how genetics, prenatal factors, growth trajectory, sexual maturation, and environmental factors (including dietary intake) may interact and affect the target health outcomes (eg, adiposity, insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure) based on existing and new follow-up data from a large population-based cohort including twins in China. Role: PI Title: "Evaluation of Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs" Funding: United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), $420,000, 2/2011-10/2013 (The project is part of a 3-year AHRQ EPC3 Task Order Grant (PI: Bass), HHSA 290-2007-10061-I, 10%) Objectives: A systematic review and meta analysis to assess the effects of interventions that directed at children and/or their families (including school-based and non-school based programs, as well as those related to policies and the built environment) on childhood obesity and related conditions, and children's related knowledge, belief and attitude. The project will help guide future interventions and policies in the U.S., and other countries fighting the growing global epidemic. Role: PI Title: “Resemblance between child & parental eating, physical activity & obesity patterns” Funding: NIH/NICHD (R03HD058077-01A1, $164,000, 2/2009-1/2013, 10%) Objectives: To examine the resemblances between American children’s and their parents’ eating and physical activity patterns as well as their weight status and the influence of individual-, household-, and environmental- factors on the associations. Role: PI Title: "International Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries" Funding: Ovations Foundation (10/2008- 09/2013, 3%) Objectives: Initial support for the establishment of a research and education center in Guatemala City, aimed at preventing chronic, non-communicable diseases in the region. Role: Co-I (PI: Manuel Ramirez-Zea)

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Title: "Global Health Activities in Developing Countries to Combat Non Communicable Chronic Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases" Funding: NIH/NHLBI (268200900028C-1-0-1, $1,168,499, 7/2009-6/2014, 3%) Objectives: To establish a center of excellence for strengthening research capacity on prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases for Central America, Dominican Republic and Mexico. This is a second award to support the center in Guatemala City, focused on research and training, initially funded by Ovations Foundation. Role: Co-I (PI: Manuel Ramirez-Zea) Title: Comprehensive Lifestyle Intervention among Chinese Kids: Obesity Prevention (CLICK-Obesity) Funding: Nanjing City Bureau of Science and Technology #200901088, CN$100,000.00, 9/2009-9/2013, 5% in kind) Objectives: To develop and test a school-based obesity prevention program. Role: Co-PI (PI: Fei Xu) Title: “Longitudinal Cohort Study on Metabolic Syndrome among Children and Adolescents in Beijing:” Funding: Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission ($1.1 million for 2008-2013 is awarded for the proposed 15-year follow-up study, 5% in kind) Objectives: To establish two long-term cohorts for investigating the etiology and diagnosis of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents in Beijing. The other related health outcomes such as obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia and type 2 diabetes will be studied as well. Role: Co-I (PI: Jie Mi) Title: ‘A Controlled Clinical Trial of the Appetite and Health Effects of Using Mushroom Substitutes for Meat in Obese Adults” Funding: US Department of Agriculture and the Mushroom Council ($250,000, 04/01/2009 – 12/31/2012, 10%) Objectives: To assess the weight control efficacy and effects on inflammatory markers and health parameters of this food substitution over 12 months. Role: Co-I (PI: Lawrence J. Cheskin) Title: NIH ARRA Supplemental grant “Resemblance between child & parental eating, physical activity & obesity patterns” Funding: NIH/NICHD (R03HD058077-01A1S1, $25,978, 9/2009-8/2012, 2%) Objectives: To examine the resemblances between American children’s and their parents’ eating and physical activity patterns as well as their weight status and the influence of individual-, household-, and environmental- factors on the associations. Role: PI Title: “Obesity Prevention in African American Schoolchildren” Funding: NIH/NIDDK (R01 DK63383, $689,639, 9/2002-5/2007, 30%) Objectives: The purpose of this intervention study is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a school based intervention program using environmental approaches for the prevention of obesity among low-socioeconomic status (SES) African American students. Role: PI

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Title: “Economic, Lifestyles, and Social Influences on Obesity” Funding: US Department of Agriculture (USDA, 2044-05322, $999,992, 1/2005-2/2010, 20%) Objectives: This project will examine the importance of key economic factors such as cost and access measures and social safety factors on BMI and obesity. The project will also provide an extensive outreach program based on the research findings to inform both policy makers and households of which policies, programs and practices may be effective at combating obesity. Role: Co-PI (PI: Lisa M. Powell) Title: “Price Effect on Diet and Obesity Risk of Food Assistance Program Recipients” Funding: NIH/NICHD (1R03HD058077-01A1, $135,555, 8/2007-8/2010, 10%) Objectives: Based on national existing data to study the influence of difference in food prices on the dietary intakes and risk of obesity of federal food assistance program recipients. A long term goal is to identify the economic mechanisms that promote weight gain among low-income Americans Role: Co-PI (PI: Qi Zhang) Title: “The influences of dairy consumption and related nutrients on obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes and the ethnic differences” Funding: US Department of Agriculture and Dairy Management Inc. / National Dairy Council (#1668, $164,964, 7/2008-12/2010, 20%) Objectives: The project aims to study the influence of dairy consumption and intakes of related nutrients on the risks for obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes among American adults and the related ethnic differences based longitudinal data collected in a large nationwide cohort study. Role: PI Title: "Maternal Mental Health and Child Nutrition: Early Pathways" Funding: NIH (5 K-12 HD 43489-8); Initial period of appointment: 1/1/10-12/31-11; $192,593, 5% in kind Objectives: To examine how maternal mental health and feeding styles are related to maternal and toddler diet quality and weight gain over time; and whether the relations vary by socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the population. Role: Co-mentor (PI: Kristen Hurley) Title: “Assessment and promotion of adolescents’ dietary calcium intake in China” Funding: Nestlé Foundation ($42,000, 7/2008-7/2011, 5%) Objectives: To develop a validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) that can be used to assess Chinese adolescents’ dietary intake. Role: PI Title: “Calcium Intake, Dairy Consumption and Production, and Environment” Funding: The Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (awarded $74,000 for the first year of the proposed 3-year project, 10/2006-2009, 5%) Objectives: To analyze existing data collected in China and the United States and collect new survey data to study the complex relationships between calcium intake, dairy consumption and production, and health, as well as impact of the dairy production on the environment. The longer-term goal is to develop sustainable evidence-based approaches and programs to help address the worldwide calcium intake inadequacy problem, especially in populations consuming plant-based diets, such as Asian

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countries and vegetarian groups in industrialized countries. Role: PI Title: “Elevated Blood Pressure among Chinese Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment” Funding: Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology ($0.5million, 2008-2010, 5% in kind) Objectives: To compare the assessment of diastolic blood pressure using different measurement protocol, and develop blood pressure cut points for the classification of elevated blood pressure to be used in clinical settings and population-based monitoring programs. The study will also examine the long-term health consequences of childhood elevated blood pressure in adulthood. Role: Co-I (PI: Jie Mi) Title: Physical Activity, Dietary Intake and Health among Chinese Adults: A 1-year Follow-up Study (PADICH-1). Funding: Nanjing City Department of Public Health (#ZKG07026, CN$ 200,000.00, 3/2007-2/2011, 5% in kind) Objectives: To examine urban residents’ physical activity and dietary intake patterns and their impact on heath in Nanjing. The findings will facilitate the development of related intervention programs. Role: Co-I (PI: Fei Xu) Title: A randomized trial of obesity prevention in infants (The Growing Leaps and Bounds Study) Funding: The Dannon Institute ($1,200,000, 12/1/06-11/30/2010, 10%) Objectives: A primary care office-based intervention targeting 0-2 year old children, aimed at preventing excess adiposity and body weight. Role: Co-I (PI: Benjamin Caballero) Title: “Population-based Study on Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents in Beijing: The epidemiology, diagnosis criteria, and intervention approaches” Funding: Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission Key Programme Research Grant (H030930030031, $568,800 2003-2007, 10% in kind) Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents in Beijing and the risk factors for obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia and type 2 diabetes. The study will survey a large representative sample of over 24,000 children aged 0-18 years old. Role: Co-I (PI: Jie Mi) Title: Determinants of Early Adiposity Rebound Funding: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2006 Faculty Innovation Fund ($35,000, 6/2006-6/2007, 10%). Objectives: The pilot study aimed to analyze longitudinal data to explore factors that may affect adiposity rebound. The findings will assist us to apply for NIH funding for a full scale study. Role: PI Title: “Comparison of the Trends In People’s Meat Consumption between Different Socioeconomic Groups In China and the United States and Their Impact On Obesity” Funding: The Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ($20,000, 10/2005-12/2006, 10%).

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Objectives: To examine the trends in people’s meat consumption in China and the differences between socioeconomic status (SES) groups and compare them with those in the U.S. We will also study the association between meat consumption and obesity based on existing survey data. Role: PI Title: “Impact of local food prices on the relationship between food stamp program participation and bodyweight status of adults in the south” Funding: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Southern Rural Development Center, in partnership with the Economic Research Service ($35,000, 2006-2007, 5%) Role: Consultant (served as Nutritional Epidemiologist; PI, Qi Zhang) Title: “Prevention of Metabolic Syndrome among Low-SES Minority Schoolchildren” Funding: Thematic Interdisciplinary Programs (TIPS) Grant, College of Applied Health Sciences, UIC ($10,000, 2004-2005, 10%) Role: PI Title: “The Illinois Prevention Research Center” Funding: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Center Grant ($4,249,642, 2004-2009, 5% in kind) Role: Co-I (PI: Sue Curry) Title: “Rapid anthropometrical assessment procedures for prevention of childhood obesity” Funding: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($51,985, 2004-2005, 5% in kind) Role: Co-I (PI: Susan Scrimshaw) Title: “Healthy Eating Promotion among Low Socioeconomic Status Schoolchildren in Chicago Public Schools” Funding: Great Cities Institute Faculty Seed Fund Award. University of Illinois at Chicago (2003-2004) Role: PI Title: “The Associations between Sexual Maturation, Childhood Obesity and Chronic Diseases” Funding: University of Illinois Campus Research Board Grant ($13,000, 2002-2003, 10%) Role: PI Title: “Investigation of Risk Factors for Obesity and Development of Effective Intervention Programs among Low-socioeconomic status (SES) Children in Chicago Public Schools” Funding: Seed Grant. Humanities Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago ($3000, 1/2002-6/2002, 5% in kind) Role: PI Title: “Kidfit 2: A personalized nutrition and exercise program for schoolchildren and their families” Funding: TAKEDA Pharmaceuticals America ($65,000, 2003-2004, 10% in kind) Role: Co-I (PI: Carol Braunschweig) Title: “Breaking the Barrier: Obesity and Diabetes in Urban Minority Children,” Funding: TAKEDA Pharmaceuticals ($182,591, 2000-2003, 5% in kind)

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Role: Co-I (PI: Carol Braunschweig) PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (*first author is a student or fellow) 1. Wang Y. Latent risk factors for the spread of AIDS/HIV infection among homosexual groups in

China. Chinese Journal of Social Medicine. 55: 30-1, 1994. 2. Wang Y, Wang Q. Enhancing medical students’ understanding of AIDS. Chinese Medical

Education. 4: 27-9, 1994. 3. Wang Y. The AIDS epidemic in European countries. Foreign Medical Sciences: Epidemiology

and Infectious Disease. 21(3): 122-3, 1994. 4. Wang Y. Approaches must be adopted to prevent the spread of AIDS and STDs. Chinese Journal

of Social Medicine. 57: 2-3, 1995. 5. Wang Y, Wang Q. Hospitals face the challenge of AIDS in African countries. Foreign Medical

Sciences: Hospital Administration. 12:8-11, 1995. 6. Wang Y, Popkin BM, Zhai F. The nutritional status and dietary pattern of Chinese adolescents,

1991 and 1993. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 52: 908-16, 1998. 7. Wang Y, Ge K, Popkin BM. Tracking of body mass index from childhood to adolescence: a 6-year

follow-up study in China. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 72:1018-24, 2000. 8. Stookey JD, Wang Y, Ge K, Lin H, Popkin BM. Measuring diet quality in China: the INFH-UNC-

CH diet quality index. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 54:811-21, 2000. 9. Du S, Zhai F, Wang Y, Popkin B. Current methods for estimating dietary iron bioavailability do

not work in China. Journal of Nutrition. 130:193-8, 2000. 10. Wang Y. Cross-national comparison of childhood obesity: the epidemic and the relationships

between obesity and socioeconomic status. International Journal of Epidemiology. 30:1129-36, 2001.

11. Wang Y, Adair L. How does maturity adjustment influence the estimates of obesity prevalence in

adolescents from different countries using an international reference? International Journal of Obesity. 25: 550-8, 2001.

12. Wang Y. Is obesity associated with early sexual maturation? A comparison of the association in

American boys verse girls. Pediatrics 110:903-910, 2002. 13. Wang Y, Wang JQ. A comparison of different international references for the assessment of child

and adolescent overweight and obesity in different populations. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 56:973-982, 2002.

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14. Wang Y, Monteiro C, Popkin BM. Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and

adolescents in the United States, Brazil, China and Russia. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 75:971-7, 2002.

15. Wang Y, Bentley M, Zhai F, Popkin BM. Tracking of dietary intake patterns of Chinese from

childhood into adolescence over a six-year follow-up period. Journal of Nutrition 132: 430-438, 2002.

16. Wang Y, Wang X. How do statistical properties influence findings of tracking (maintenance) in

epidemiologic studies? European Journal of Epidemiology 18:1037-45, 2003. 17. Wang Y, Ge K, Popkin BM. The dynamics of childhood obesity: Why do some obese children

remain obese, but others do not? Public Health Nutrition 6:549-58, 2003.

18. Wang Y, Wang QJ. The Prevalence of Prehypertension and Hypertension among U.S. Adults According to the New Joint National Committee Guidelines: New Challenges of the Old Problem. Archives of Internal Medicine 164:2126-2134, 2004.

19. Zhang Q, Wang Y. Socioeconomic inequality in obesity in the United States: Do gender, age and

ethnicity matter? Social Science and Medicine 58;1171-1180, 2004. 20. Koh-Banerjee P, Wang Y, Hu FB, Spiegelman D, Willett WC, Rimm EB. Changes in Body

Weight and Body Fat Distribution as Risk Factors for Clinical Diabetes in U.S. Men. American Journal of Epidemiology 159:1150-9, 2004.

21. Zhang Q, Wang Y. Trends in the association between obesity and socioeconomic status in U.S.

adults: 1971 to 2000. Obesity 12(10):1622-1632, 2004. 22. Wang Y. Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity--Methodological Aspects and Guidelines: What’s

New? International Journal of Obesity 28(3):S21-8, 2004. 23. Zhang Q, Wang Y. Secular Trends in Socioeconomic Inequality of Obesity in the United States. In

Studies on Economic Well-Being. Edited by Amiel Y and Bishop JA. Research on Economic Inequality 12:487-506, 2004.

24. *Shan X, Mi J, Wang Y. Recent research progress in childhood obesity: the global epidemic,

diagnosis and risk factors. Chinese Journal of Practical Pediatrics 19 (4):196-202, 2004 [in Chinese].

25. *Shan XY, Mi J, Wang Y. Risk factors of childhood obesity. Chinese Journal of Practical

Pediatrics. 19 (4):245-8, 2004 [in Chinese]. 26. Wang Y, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, Hu FB. A comparison of abdominal adiposity and

overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among U.S. men. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 81(3):555-63, 2005.

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27. Braunschweig CL, Gomez S, Liang H, Tomey K, Doerfler B, Wang Y, Beebe C, R Lipton. Obesity and the metabolic syndrome among low-income, African-American urban school children: The rule rather than the exception? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 81, 970-975, 2005.

2006 28. Wang Y, Tussing L, Odoms-Young A, Braunschweig C, Flay B, Hedeker D, Hellison D. Obesity

Prevention among Low-Socioeconomic Status African American Adolescents: The HEALTH-KIDS Study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2006;60:92-103.

29. Wang Y, Zhang Q. Are American Children and Adolescents of Low-Socioeconomic Status at

Increased Risk of Obesity? Changes in the Association between Overweight and Family Income between 1971 and 2002. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2006;84:707-16.

30. Wang Y, Moreno LA, Caballero B, Cole TJ. Limitations of the Current World Health Organization

Growth References for Children and Adolescents. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2006; 27:s175-88. 31. Wang Y, Lobstein T. Worldwide Trends in Childhood Obesity. International Journal of Pediatric

Obesity 2006;1:11-25. 32. Wang Y, Chen X, Klag MJ, Caballero B. Epidemic of Childhood Obesity: Implications for Kidney

Disease. Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease 2006;13(4):336-51. 33. Mi J, Cheng H, Hou DQ, Duan JL, Teng TT, Wang Y. Prevalence of overweight and obesity

among children and adolescents in Beijing in 2004. Chinese Journal of Epidemiology. 2006;27(6): 474-9 [in Chinese].

2007 34. Wang Y, Mi J, Shan X, Wang QJ, Ge K. Is China Facing An Obesity Epidemic and the

Consequences? The Trends in Obesity and Chronic Disease in China. International Journal of Obesity 2007;31(1):177-88.

35. *Xu F, Yin X, Wang Y. The Association between Overweight and Amount of Cigarettes Smoked

among Chinese Adults in Nanjing, China. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2007;16(2):240-7.

36. *Casagrande SS, Wang Y, Anderson C, Gary TL. Have Americans increased their fruit and

vegetable intake? The trends between 1988 and 2002. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2007;32(4):257-63.

37. Mi J, Chen FF, Wang YF, Cheng H, Hou DQ, Zhao XY. Impact of early menarche on adiposity

during late puberty and mid-life. Chinese Journal of Epidemiology. 2007;28(9):833-7 [In Chinese] 38. Zhang Q, Wang Y. Using Concentration Index to Study Changes in Socioeconomic Inequality of

Overweight among U.S. Adolescents between 1971 and 2002. International Journal of Epidemiology 2007;36(4):916-25.

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39. Wang Y, Liang H, Tussing L, Braunschweig C, Caballero B, Flay B. Obesity and Related Risk

Factors among Low-Socioeconomic Status Minority Students in Chicago. Public Health Nutrition 2007;10:927-38.

40. Liang H, Chen D, Wang Y, Rimmer JH, Braunschweig CL. Different Risk factors Pattern in Men

with Spinal Cord Injury Compared to Able-bodied Men despite Similar Rate for Metabolic Syndrome. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2007;88;1198-1204.

41. Wang Y, Beydoun M. The Obesity Epidemic In the United States-- Gender, Age, Socioeconomic,

Racial/Ethnic, and Geographic Characteristics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis. Epidemiologic Reviews 2007;29:6-28.

2008 42. Wang Y, Chen X, Song Y, Caballero B, Cheskin LJ. Association between Obesity and Kidney

Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Kidney International 2008;73(1):19-33. 43. *Beydoun M, Wang Y. How do socio-economic status, perceived economic barriers and

nutritional benefits affect quality of dietary intake among US adults? European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2008;62(3):303-13.

44. *Beydoun M, Wang Y. Do nutrition knowledge and beliefs modify the association of socio-

economic factors and diet quality among US adults? Preventive Medicine 2008;46(2):145-53. 45. Liang L, Mi J, Zhang MM, Wang YF, Wang TY. Impact of Choice of Diastolic KorrtKoff Phase

in Childhood on Prediction to Adult Hypertension. Chinese Journal of Epidemiology. 2008,29(2): 110-115 [in Chinese]

46. *Li J, Wang Y. Tracking of dietary intake and its association with dynamics of body mass index in

urban low-income African American adolescents. Journal of Nutrition 2008;138(1):94-100. 47. *Beydoun M, Powell L, Wang Y. Impacts of fast food, fruits and vegetables’ prices on dietary

intakes among US adults and are they modified by family income? Social Science and Medicine 2008;66(11):2218-29.

48. *Chen X, Beydoun M, Wang Y. Is sleep duration associated with childhood obesity? A systematic

review and meta-analysis. Obesity 2008;16(2):265-74. 49. *Chen X, Wang Y, Appel L, Mi Ji. The impacts of different blood pressure measurement protocols

on blood pressure tracking from childhood to adulthood: A meta-regression analysis. Hypertension 2008;51(3):642-9.

50. *Beydoun MA, Beydoun H, Wang Y. Obesity and central obesity as risk factors for incident

dementia and its sub-types: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews 2008;9(3):204-18.

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51. *Chen X, Wang Y. Tracking of blood pressure from childhood to adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Circulation 2008;117:3171-3180.

52. *Beydoun MA, Gary TL, Caballero B, Lawrence R, Cheskin L, Wang Y. Ethnic differences in

dairy and related nutrient consumption among US adults, and their association with obesity, central obesity and the metabolic syndrome. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2008; 87(6):1914-25.

53. Wang Y, Beydoun MA, Liang L, Caballero B, Kumanyika SK. Will all Americans become

overweight or obese? Estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemic. Obesity 2008;16(10):2323-30.

54. Wang Y, Li S. Worldwide Trends in Dairy Production and Consumption and Calcium Intake: Is

Promoting Dairy Consumption A Successful and Sustainable Solution for Inadequate Calcium Intake? Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2008;29(3):172-185.

55. So HK, Nelson EA, Li AM, Wong EM, Lau JT, Guldan GS, Mak KH, Wang Y, Fok TF, Sung RY.

Secular changes in height, weight and body mass index in Hong Kong children. BMC Public Health. 2008;8(1):320.

56. Beydoun MA, Lhotsky A, Wang Y, Dal Forno G, An Y, Metter EJ, Ferrucci L, O’Brien R,

Zonderman AB. Association of adiposity status and changes in early to mid-adulthood with incidence of Alzheimer's disease. American Journal of Epidemiology 2008;168(10):1179-89.

2009 57. *Beydoun MA, Powell LM, Wang Y. Reduced away-from-home food expenditure and better

nutrition knowledge and belief can improve quality of dietary intake among US adults. Public Health Nutrition 2009;12(3):369-81.

58. *Chen X. Wang Y. The epidemic of diabetes and its impact on cardiovascular health in

contemporary China. CVD Prevention and Control 2009;4:27-40. 59. Wang Y, Li J, Caballero B. Resemblance in dietary intakes between urban low-income African

American adolescents and their mothers and the predictors: The HEALTH-KIDS Study. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 2009;109(1):52-63.

60. *Beydoun MA, Wang Y. Gender-ethnic Disparity in BMI and Waist Circumference Distribution

Shifts in US Adults. Obesity 2009;17(1):169-76. 61. Bleich SN, Wang YC, Wang Y, Gortmaker SL. Increasing consumption of sugar-sweetened

beverages among U.S. adults: 1988-94 to 1999-2004. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2009;89(1):372-81.

62. *Chen X, Wang Y. The influence of sexual maturation on blood pressure and body fatness in

African-American girls and boys. American Journal of Human Biology 2009;21(1):105-12.

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63. *Beydoun MA, Wang Y. Parent-child dietary intake resemblance in the United States: evidence from a large representative survey. Social Science and Medicine. 2009;68(12):2137-44.

64. Powell LM, Zhao Z, Wang Y. Food prices and fruit and vegetable consumption among young

American adults. Health Place. 2009;15(4):1064-70. 65. Zhang Q, Wang Y, Huang ES. Trends in racial/ethnic disparities in the prevalence of type 2

diabetes by body mass index among U.S. adults. Ethnicity and Health 2009;14(5):439-57. 66. Wang Y, Tao Y, Hyman ME, Li J, Chen Y. Osteoporosis In China. Osteoporosis International

2009;20(10):1651-62. 67. Nettleton JA, Lutsey PL, Wang Y, Lima JA, Michos ED, Jacobs DR. Diet soda intake and risk of

incident metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Diabetes Care. 2009;32(4):688-94.

68. Wang Y, Beydoun MA. Meat consumption is associated with obesity and central obesity among

US adults. International Journal of Obesity 2009;33(6):621-8. 69. Wang Y, Chen HJ, Shaikh S, Mathur P. Is Obesity Becoming A Public Health Problem in India?

Examine the Shift from Under- to Overnutrition Over Time. Obesity Review 2009;10(4):456-74. 70. Wang Y, Liang H, Chen X. Measured body mass index, body weight perception, dissatisfaction

and control practices in urban, low-income African American adolescents. BMC Public Health. 2009;9(1):183.

71. Nettleton JA, Rock CL, Wang Y, Jenny NS, Jacobs DR. Validity of the MESA Food Frequency

Questionnaire: associations between dietary macronutrient intake and fasting plasma lipids. British Journal of Nutrition 2009;102(8):1220-7.

2010

72. Wang Y, Wang Y, Jahns L, Tussing-Humphreys L, Xie B, Rockett H, Liang H, Johnson L. Dietary intake patterns of low-income urban African-American adolescents. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2010;110(9):1340-5.

73. Wang Y, Beydoun MA, Caballero B, Gary TL, Lawrence R. Trends in American Adults’ meat

consumption. Public Health Nutrition 2010;13(9):1333-45. 74. *Li S, Treuth MS, Wang Y. How active are American adolescents and have they become less

active? Obesity Review. 2010;11(12):847-62 75. *Beydoun MA, Wang Y. Pathways linking depression to SES, lifestyle factors and obesity among

young US adults. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2010;123(1-3):52-63.

76. *Shan X, Xi B, Chen H, Hou D, Wang Y, Mi J. Prevalence and behavioral risk factors of overweight and obesity among children aged 2-18 in Beijing, China. International Journal of

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Pediatric Obesity 2010;5(5):383-9. [YW as co-corresponding author] 77. Beydoun MA, Boueiz A, Shroff MR, Beydoun HA, Wang Y, Zonderman AB. Associations among

25-hydroxyvitamin D, diet quality, and metabolic disturbance differ by adiposity in adults in the United States. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism. 2010;95(8):3814-27.

78. Xu F, Wang Y, Lu L, Liang Y, Wang Z, Hong X, Li J. Comparison of anthropometric indices of obesity in predicting subsequent risk of hyperglycemia among Chinese men and women in Mainland China. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2010;19(4):586-93.

2011 79. *Beydoun MA, Wang Y. Socio-demographic disparities in distribution shifts over time in various

adiposity measures among American children and adolescents: What changes in prevalence rates could not reveal. International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. 2011;6(1):21-35.

80. *Tao Y, Li J, Lo M, Tang Y, Wang Y. Food Nutrition Labeling Practice in China. Public Health

Nutrition 2011;14(3):542-50

81. Beydoun MA, Fanelli Kuczmarski MT, Wang Y, Mason MA, Evans MK, Zonderman AB. Receiver-operating characteristics of adiposity for metabolic syndrome: the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. Public Health Nutrition. 2011;14(1):77-92..

82. Wang Y, Beydoun MA, Li J, Moreno LA. Do children and their parents eat a similar diet? The association between children’s and parents’ dietary intakes. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2011;65(2):177-89.

83. Beydoun MA, Shroff MR, Chen X, Beydoun HA, Wang Y, Zonderman AB. Serum antioxidant status is associated with metabolic syndrome among U.S. adults in recent national surveys. Journal of Nutrition. 2011;141(5):903-13.

84. *Beydoun MA, Powell LM, Chen X, Wang Y. Food Prices Are Associated with Dietary Quality, Fast Food Consumption, and Body Mass Index among U.S. Children and Adolescents. Journal of Nutrition 2011;141(2):304-11.

85. Wang Y. Disparities In Pediatric Obesity In the United States. Advances in Nutrition 2011 2: 23-31.

86. Wang Y, Chen X. How Much of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Dietary Intakes, Exercise, and Weight Status Can Be Explained by Nutrition- and Health-Related Psychosocial Factors and Socioeconomic Status among US Adults? Journal of the American Dietetic Association 2011;111(12):1904-11.

87. *Chen X, Cheskin LJ, Shi L, Wang Y. Americans diagnosed with diet-related chronic diseases have higher diet quality than those without these diseases. Journal of Nutrition 2011; 141(8):1543-51.

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88. Zhang Q, Chen Z, Diawara N, Wang Y. Prices of unhealthy foods, U.S. Food Stamp Program

participation, and body weight status among low-income women. Journal of Family and Economic Issues 2011;32 (2): 245-256.

2012

89. Wang Y, Chen X. Between-group differences in nutrition- and health- related psychosocial factors among US adults and their associations with diet, exercise, and weight status. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2012;112(4):486-498.e3.

90. Xu F, Wang Y, Lu L, Liang Y, Wang Z, Hong X, Li J. Physical Activity, Family History of Diabetes and Risk of Developing Hyperglycemia and Diabetes among Adults in Mainland China. Diabetic Medicine 2012;29(5):593-9.

91. *Chen X, Wang Y. Is ideal body image related to obesity and lifestyle behaviors in African-American adolescents? Child: Care, Health & Development. 2012;38(2):219-28.

92. *Chen X, Jahns L, Gittelsohn J, Wang Y. Who is missing the message? Targeting strategies to increase food label use among US adults. Public Health Nutrition 2012;15(5):760-72.

93. Kirby J, Liang L, Chen HJ, Wang Y. Race, Place and Obesity: The Complex Relationships among Community Racial/Ethnic Composition, Individual Race/Ethnicity, and Obesity in the US. American Journal of Public Health 2012;102(8):1572-8.

94. Wada R, Powell LM, Krauss RC, Wang Y. Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Body Mass Index in the United States: The Role of Parental Socioeconomic Status and Economic Contextual Factors. Social Science & Medicine 2012;75(3):469-76.

95. *Min JW, Li J, Wang Y. Impact of infancy rapid weight gain on 5-year childhood overweight development vary by age and sex in China. Pediatric Obesity 2012;7(5):365-73.

96. Wang Y, Lim J. The Global Childhood Obesity Epidemic and the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Obesity. International Review of Psychiatry 2012; 24(3):176-188.

97. Xu F, Ware RS, Tse LA, Wang Z, Hong X, Song A, Li J, Wang Y. A school-based comprehensive lifestyle intervention among chinese kids against obesity (CLICK-Obesity): rationale, design and methodology of a randomized controlled trial in Nanjing city, China. BMC Public Health. 2012;12:316.

98. *Lim J, Nguyen TT, Choue R, Wang Y. Sociodemographic disparities in metabolic syndrome components among adults in South Korea. Diabetes Care. 2012;35(10):2028-35.

99. *Nguyen TT. Butte N, Wang Y. Demographic and socioeconomic correlates of adiposity assessed using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in US children and adolescents. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2012; 96(5):1104-12

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100. Chen F, Wang Y, Shan X, Cheng H, Hou D, Zhao X, Wang T, Zhao D, Mi J. Association

between Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: Evidence from a Large Sample of Chinese Children and Adolescents. PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e47380.

101. Wang Y, Baker JL, Hill JO, Dietz WH. Controversies regarding reported trends: has the obesity epidemic leveled off in the United States? Advances in Nutrition. 2012;3(5):751-2.

102. Wang Y, Lim H, Wu Y. The Growing Global Noncommunicable Diseases Burden and the Alarming Situation in China. [Journal of Peking University (Health Sciences)], Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao. 2012;44(5):688-93.

2013

103. *Lim J, Wang Y. Body weight misperception patterns and their association with health-related factors among adolescents in South Korea, Obesity. 2013;21(12):2596-603.

104. *Liu Y, HJ Chen, Liang L, Wang Y. Parent-child resemblance in weight status and its correlates

in the United States. PLoS One. 2013;8(6):e65361. 105. Wang Y, Wu Y, Wilson RF, Bleich S, Cheskin L, Weston C, Showell N, Fawole O, Lau B,

Segal J. Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Comparative Effectiveness Review and Meta-Analysis [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2013 Jun. Report No.: 13-EHC081-EF. AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. PMID: 23865092 [PubMed] (Note: This is an 835-page report, and a result of the two year project funded by the AHRQ that over 20 researchers at Johns Hopkins participated and I am the PI.)

106. *Wu Y, Lau BD, Bleich S, Cheskin L, Boult C, Segal JB, Wang Y. Future Research Needs for

Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Identification of Future Research Needs From Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 115 [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2013 Jun. Report No.: 13-EHC036-EF. AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Reviews. PMID: 24027795 [PubMed] (Note: The report is part of the result of the two year project funded by the AHRQ that over 20 researchers at Johns Hopkins participated and I am the PI.)

107. Bleich SN, Segal J, Wu Y, Wilson R, Wang Y. Systematic review of community-based

childhood obesity prevention studies. Pediatrics. 2013;132(1):e201-10. 108. *Showell NN, Fawole O, Segal J, Wilson RF, Cheskin LJ, Bleich SN, Wu Y, Lau B, Wang Y. A

systematic review of home-based childhood obesity prevention studies. Pediatrics. 2013 ;132(1):e193-200.

109. *Min J, Li Z, Liu X, Wang Y. The association between early menarche and offspring's obesity

risk in early childhood was modified by gestational weight gain. Obesity. 2014;22(1):19-23. doi: 10.1002/oby.20567. Epub 2013 Sep 10.

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110. *Liu Y, Chen HJ, Liang L, Wang Y. Parent-child resemblance in weight status and its correlates in the United States. PLoS One. 2013;8(6):e65361.

111. Ip EH, Rahmandad H, Shoham DA, Hammond R, Huang TT, Wang Y, Mabry PL. Reconciling

statistical and systems science approaches to public health. Health Education Behavior. 2013 ;40(1 Suppl):123S-31S.

112. Poddar KH, Ames M, Hsin-Jen C, Feeney MJ, Wang Y, Cheskin LJ. Positive effect of

mushrooms substituted for meat on body weight, body composition, and health parameters. A 1-year randomized clinical trial. Appetite. 2013;71C:379-387.

113. *Chen HJ, Wang Y. Influence of School Beverage Environment on the Association of Beverage

Consumption With Physical Education Participation Among US Adolescents. American Journal of Public Health. 2013;103(11):e63-70.

114. Park S, Choi BY, Wang Y, Colantuoni E, Gittelsohn J. School and neighborhood nutrition

environment and their association with students' nutrition behaviors and weight status in Seoul, South Korea. Journal of Adolescence Health. 2013;53(5):655-662.e12.

115. *Chen X, HJ Chen, Xue H, Y Wang. Is school meal program participation associated with

childhood obesity in the United States? PLoS One, 2013 (revision) 116. Isgor Z, Powell LM, Wang Y. Multivariable analysis of the association between fathers' and

youths' physical activity in the United States. BMC Public Health. 2013;13:1075.

2014

117. Chen F, Wang Y, Jie Mi. Timing and secular trend of pubertal development in Beijing girls. World Journal of Pediatrics, 2014,10(1):74-79.

118. Xu F, Ware RS, Tse LA, Wang Y, Wang Z, et al. Joint Associations of Physical Activity and

Hypertension with the Development of Type 2 Diabetes among Urban Men and Women in Mainland China. PLoS ONE 2014;9(2): e88719. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088719.

119. *Chen HJ, Wang Y. The changing food outlet distributions and local contextual factors in the

United States. BMC Public Health. 2014;14(1):42. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-42. 120. Zhang Q, Lamichhane R, Wang Y. Associations between US Adult Obesity and State and

County Economic Conditions in the Recession. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2014. (in press) 121. *Lim H, Xue H, Wang Y. Association between obesity and metabolic co-morbidities among

children and adolescents in South Korea: the 2007-2008 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. BMC Public Health 2014;14(1):279.

122. Du W, Su C, Wang H, Wang Z, Wang Y, Zhang B. Is density of neighbourhood restaurants

associated with BMI in rural Chinese adults? A longitudinal study from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. BMJ Open. 2014 Apr 22;4(4):e004528.

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123. Xu F, Wang X, Ware RS, Tse LA, Wang Z, Hong X, Chan EY, Li J, Wang Y. A school-based

comprehensive lifestyle intervention among Chinese kids against Obesity (CLICK-Obesity) in Nanjing City, China: the baseline data. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2014;23(1):48-54.

124. *Tuan NT, Wang Y. Adiposity assessments: Agreement between dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometric measures in U.S. children. Obesity. 2014;22(6):1495-504.

125. *Cai Li, Wu Y, Wilson R, Segal JB, Kim M, Wang Y. Effect of Childhood Obesity Prevention

Programs on Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Circulation 2014;129(18):1832-9.

126. Wang Y, Xue H, Chen HJ, Igusa T. Examining social norm impacts on obesity and eating

behaviors among US school children based on agent-based model. BMC Public Health. 2014;14(1):923.

127. Zhang Q, Lamichhane R, Chen HJ, Xue H, Wang Y. Does child-parent resemblance in body weight status vary by sociodemographic factors in the USA? J Epidemiol Community Health. 2014 Jul 24. pii: jech-2013-203476. doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203476. [Epub ahead of print]

128. *Beydoun MA, Beydoun HA, Gamaldo AA, Teel A, Zonderman AB, Wang Y. Epidemiologic studies of modifiable factors associated with cognition and dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health. 2014;14:643. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-643.

129. Du W, Su C, Wang H, Wang Z, Wang Y, Zhang B. Is density of neighbourhood restaurants associated with BMI in rural Chinese adults? A longitudinal study from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. BMJ Open. 2014;4(4):e004528. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004528.

130. Lim H, Kim SY, Wang Y, Lee SJ, Oh K, Sohn CY, Moon YM, Jee SH, Preservation of a traditional Korean dietary pattern and emergence of a fruit and dairy dietary pattern among adults in South Korea: secular transitions in dietary patterns of a prospective study from 1998 to 2010. Nutrition Research, 2014;34(9):760-70.

131. *Chen HJ, Liu Y, Wang Y. Socioeconomic and demographic factors for spousal resemblance in obesity status and habitual physical activity in the United States. Journal of Obesity. 2014;2014:703215. doi: 10.1155/2014/703215. Epub 2014 Sep 23.

132. Wang Y, Xue H, Esposito L, Joyner MJ, Y Bar-Yam, Huang T. Applications of Complex Systems Science in Obesity and Non-Communicable Chronic Disease Research. Advances in Nutrition 2014 2014 Sep;5(5):574-7.

133. *Cai L, Wu Y, Cheskin L, RF Wilson, Wang Y. The Effect of Childhood Obesity Prevention

Programs on Blood Lipids: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Obes Rev. 2014 Dec;15(12):933-44.

134. Wang L, Slawson D, Relyea G, Southerland J, Wang Y. Prevalence of risk factors of adolescent

obesity in Southern Appalachia. Preventing Chronic Disease. 2014 Dec 18;11:E222

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2015

135. Wang Y, Hong X, Liu S. Applications of Systems Science in Biomedical Research Regarding

Obesity and Non-communicable Chronic Diseases—Opportunities, Promise and Challenges. Adv in Nutr, 2015 Jan 15;6(1):88-95.

136. *Huang T, Liu H, Zhao W, Li J, Wang Y. Gene-dietary fat interaction, bone mineral density and

bone speed of sound in Children: a twin study in China. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2015 Mar;59(3):544-51

137. Yan AF, Stevens PE, Wang YF, Weinhardt LS, Holt CL, O' Connor C, Feller T, Xie H, Luelloff

S. mHealth Text Messaging for Physical Activity Promotion in College Students: A Formative Participatory Approach. American Journal of Health Behavior. 2015;39(3):395-408.

138. *Chen HJ, Wang Y. Do weight status and television viewing influence children's subsequent

dietary changes? A National Longitudinal Study in the United States. Int J Obes (Lond). 2015 Jun;39(6):931-8.

139. Shoham DA, Hammond R, Rahmandad H, Wang Y, Hovmand P. Modeling social norms and

social influence on obesity. Current Epidemiology Reports, (2015) 2:71–79, DOI 10.1007/s40471-014-0032-2

140. Zhang J, Wang H, Wang Y, Xue H, Wang Z, Du W, Su C, Zhang J, Jiang H, Zhai F, Zhang B. Dietary patterns and their associations with childhood obesity in China. Br J Nutr. 2015 Jun 28;113(12):1978-84.

141. Wang L, Wang K, Gao X, Paul TK, Cai J, Wang Y. Sex difference in the association between

obesity and asthma in U.S. adults: Findings from a national study. Respir Med. 2015 Jun 9. pii: S0954-6111(15)30005-6.

142. Wang Y, Cai L, Wu Y, Wilson RF, Weston C, Fawole O, Bleich SN, Cheskin LJ, Showell NN,

Lau BD, Chiu DT, Zhang A, Segal J. What childhood obesity prevention programmes work? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obes Rev. 2015 Jul;16(7):547-65.

143. Lobstein T, Jackson-Leach R, Moodie ML, Hall KD, Gortmaker SL, Swinburn BA, James P,

Wang Y, McPherson K. Child and adolescent obesity: part of a bigger picture. Lancet. 2015 Jun 20;385(9986):2510-20.

144. *Yang HY, Chen HJ, Marsteller JA, Liang L, Shi L, Wang Y. Patient-health care professional

gender or race/ethnicity concordance and its association with weight-related advice in the United States. Patient Educ Couns. 2015 Aug 29. pii: S0738-3991(15)30066-5

145. Xu F, Ware RS, Leslie E, Tse LA, Wang Z, Li J, Wang Y. Effectiveness of a Randomized

Controlled Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Obesity among Chinese Primary School Students: CLICK-Obesity Study. PLoS One. 2015 Oct 28;10(10):e0141421

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2016

146. Xie C, Wang Y, Li X, Wen X. Childhood Growth Trajectories of Etiological Subgroups of Large for Gestational Age Newborns. J Pediatr. 2016 Mar;170:60-66.e5. Epub 2015 Dec 11.

147. *Chen HJ, Wang Y. Changes in the Neighborhood Food Store Environment and Children’s Body Mass Index at Peripuberty in the United States. J Adolescent Health, 2016 Jan;58(1):111-8.

148. *Chen HJ, Wang Y. Do School Environments for Physical Activity Improve in Response to

School Prevalence of Obesity and Inactivity. Journal of Public Health, in press.

149. *Lim H, Kim J, Min J, Carvajal N, Lloyd C, Wang Y. A child health promotion program in South Korea collaborating with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Improvement in dietary intake and nutrition knowledge of young children. Nutrition Research and Practice. 2016 Oct;10(5):555-562.

150. *Liu S, Osgood N, Xue H, Wang Y. Systems Simulation Model for Assessing the Sustainability

and Synergistic Impacts of Sugar-sweetened Beverages Tax and Revenue Recycling on Childhood Obesity Prevention, Journal of Operational Research Society, 2016; 67: 708–721.

151. Zhang J, Xue H, Cheng X, Wang ZH, Zhai FY, Wang Y, Wang HJ. Influence of Proximities to

Food Establishments on Body Mass Index among Children in China. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2016;25(1):134-41.

152. Xi B, Zhang T, Zhang M, Liu F, Zong X, Zhao M, Wang Y. Trends in Elevated Blood Pressure

Among US Children and Adolescents: 1999-2012. Am J Hypertens. 2016 Feb;29(2):217-25.

153. *Xue H, Wu Y, Wang X, Wang Y. Time Trends in Fast Food Consumption and Its Association with Obesity among Children in China. PLOS ONE, 2016: 11.3.

154. Xu J, Liu S, Liu G, Bishai D, Xue H, Wang Y. Integration of Patients' Decision-Making in Cost-

Effectiveness Analysis of Diabetes Interventions: A Simulation Study Using System Dynamics Modeling. 2016 September 20, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2841500

155. *Li J, Liu H, Beaty TH, Chen H, Caballero B, Wang Y. Heritability of Children's Dietary Intakes:

A Population-Based Twin Study in China. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2016 Oct;19(5):472-84.

156. Wang Y, Hollis-Hansen K, Ren X, Qiu Y, Qu W. Do environmental pollutants increase obesity risk in humans? Obes Rev. 2016;17(12):1179-1197.

157. Wang Y, Wang L, Xue H, Qu W. A Review of the Growth of the Fast Food Industry in China and

Its Potential Impact on Obesity. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Nov 9;13(11). pii: E1112.

158. Wang Y, Min J, Harris K, Khuri J, Anderson L. A Systematic Examination of Food Intake and Adaptation to the Food Environment by Refugees Settled in the United States. Adv Nutr. 2016 Nov 15;7(6):1066-1079.

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159. Dong H, Yan Y, Liu J, Zhao X, Cheng H, Hou D, Huang G, Li S, Wang Y, Mi J. Alarming trends in ideal cardiovascular health among children and adolescents in Beijing, China, 2004 to 2014. Int J Cardiol. 2016 Dec 21. pii: S0167-5273(16) 32443-3.

2017

160. Wang Y, Wang L, Qu W. New national data show alarming increase in obesity and

noncommunicable chronic diseases in China. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2017 Jan;71(1):149-150.

161. *Huang T, Beaty T, Li J, Liu H, Zhao W, Wang Y. Association between dietary fat intake and insulin resistance in Chinese child twins. Br J Nutr. 2017 Jan;117(2):230-236.

162. An R, Liu G, Khan N, Yan H, Wang Y. Dietary Habits and Cognitive Impairment Risk Among

Oldest-Old Chinese. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2017 Feb 10. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw170. [Epub ahead of print]

163. *Jia P, Cheng X, Xue H, Wang Y. Applications of geographic information systems related data

and methods in obesity-related public health research. Obes Rev. 2017 Apr;18(4):400-411.

164. *Jia P, Li M, Xue H, Lu L, Xu F, Wang Y. School environment and policies, child eating behavior and overweight/obesity in urban China: the childhood obesity study in China megacities. Int J Obes (Lond). 2017 May;41(5):813-819.

165. Romieu I, Dossus L, Barquera S, Blottière HM, Franks PW, Gunter M,Hwalla N, Hursting SD,

Leitzmann M, Margetts B, Nishida C,Potischman N, Seidell J, Stepien M, Wang Y, Westerterp K,Winichagoon P, Wiseman M, Willett WC; IARC working group on Energy Balance and Obesity. Energy balance and obesity: what are the main drivers? Cancer Causes Control. 2017 Mar;28(3):247-258.

166. *Jia P, Xue H, Zhang J, Wang Y. Time Trend and Demographic and Geographic Disparities in

Childhood Obesity Prevalence in China—Evidence from Twenty Years of Longitudinal Data. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Mar 31;14(4). pii: E369. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14040369.

167. Zhang Q, Liu R, Diggs LA, Wang Y, Ling L. Does acculturation affect the dietary intakes and

body weight status of children of immigrants in the U.S. and other developed countries? A systematic review. Ethn Health. 2017 Apr 13:1-21.

168. Yan Y, Hou D, Zhao X, Liu J, Cheng H, Wang Y, Mi J. Childhood Adiposity and

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adulthood. Pediatrics. 2017 Apr;139(4). pii: e20162738.

169. *Chen HJ, Xue H, Kumanyika S, Wang Y. School Beverage Environment and Children’s Energy Expenditure Associated with Physical Education Class: An Agent-based Model Simulation. Pediatr Obes. 2017 Jun;12(3):203-212.

170. Carrillo-Larco RM, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Miranda JJ, Xue H, Wang Y. Children's weight changes

according to maternal perception of the child's weight and health: A prospective cohort of Peruvian children. PLoS One. 2017 Apr 19;12(4):e0175685.

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171. Wang Y, Min J, Khuri J, Li M. A Systematic Examination of the Association between Parental

and Child Obesity across Countries. Adv Nutr. 2017 May 15;8(3):436-448

172. *Wu Y, Xue H, Wang H, Su C, Du S, Wang Y. The impact of urbanization on the community food environment in China. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2017 May;26(3):504-513.

173. *Li M, Xue H, Wang W, Wang Y. Parental Expectation and Children’s Screen-based and

Academic-related Sedentary Behaviors in China: A Nationally Representative Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2017 May 31;52(5):680-9.

174. Wang H, Xue H, Du S, Zhang J, Wang Y, Zhang B. Time trends and factors in body mass

index and obesity among children in China: 1997 to 2011. Int J Obes (Lond). 2017 Jun;41(6):964-970.

175. Wang Y, Yan F, Wang HJ, Xu F. Child and parental perspectives on health promotion and

childhood obesity prevention in Beijing and Nanjing, China. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2017;26(5):888-898.

176. *Min J, Wang VH, Xue H, Mi J, Wang Y. Maternal perception of child overweight status and

its association with weight-related parenting practices, their children's health behaviours and weight change in China. Public Health Nutr. 2017 Aug;20(12):2096-2103.

177. Mulugeta W, Glick M, Min J, Xue H, Noe M, Wang Y. Longitudinal Changes and High-Risk

Subgroups for Obesity and Overweight/Obesity Among Refugees in Buffalo, NY, 2004–2014. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2017 Mar 31:1-8.

178. Wang Y, Xue H, Huang L, Zhang D. A Systematic Review of Application and Effectiveness of

mHealth Interventions for Obesity and Diabetes Treatment and Self-Management. Adv Nutr. 2017 May 15;8(3):449-462.

179. Park S, Kwon KI, Kweon SJ, Wang Y, Gittelsohn J. Creating a school nutrition environment

index and pilot testing it in elementary and middle schools in urban South Korea. Nutr Res Pract. 2017 Oct;11(5):402-411.

180. Lim H, Lee HJ, Choue R, Wang Y. Trends in Fast-Food and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Their Association with Social Environmental Status in South Korea. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2017 Oct 4. pii: S2212-2672(17)31149-8.

181. Li Y, Zhang D, Thapa JR, Madondo K, Yi S, Fisher E, Griffin K, Liu B, Wang Y, Pagán JA. Assessing the role of access and price on the consumption of fruits and vegetables across new York City using agent-based modeling. Prev Med. 2017 Oct 4. pii: S0091-7435(17)30364-X.

182. Min J, Zhao Y, Slivka L, Wang Y. Double burden of diseases worldwide: coexistence of

undernutrition and overnutrition-related non-communicable chronic diseases. Obes Rev. 2018 Jan;19(1):49-61.

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183. *Tan Z, Min J, Xue H, Wang W, Wang Y. Parenting practices and overweight status of junior high school students in China: A nationally representative study of 19,487 students from 112 schools. Prev Med. 2017 Sep 14. pii: S0091-7435(17)30336-5.

184. An, R, Xue H, Wang L, Wang Y. Projecting the Impact of a Nationwide School Plain Water Access Intervention on Childhood Obesity: A Cost-benefit Analysis. Pediatr Obes. 2017 Sep 22. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12236. [Epub ahead of print]

185. Yang Y, Hong X, Gurney JG, Wang Y. Active Travel to and From School Among School-Age

Children During 1997-2011 and Associated Factors in China. J Phys Act Health. 2017 Sep;14(9):684-691.

186. *Min J, Xue H, Wang VHC, Li M, Wang Y. Are single children more likely to be overweight or

obese than those with siblings? The influence of China's one-child policy on childhood obesity. Prev Med. 2017 Oct;103:8-13.

187. An R, Yang Y, Hoschke A, Xue H, Wang Y. Influence of neighbourhood safety on childhood

obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Obes Rev. 2017 Nov;18(11):1289-1309.

188. *Zhao Y, Wang L, Xue B, Wang Y. Associations between general and central obesity and

hypertension among children: The Childhood Obesity Study in China Mega-Cities. Sci Rep. 2017 Dec 4;7(1):16895.

189. *Zhao Y, Wang L, Xue H, Wang H, Wang Y. Fast food consumption and its associations with

obesity and hypertension among children: results from the baseline data of the Childhood Obesity Study in China Mega-cities. BMC Public Health. 2017 Dec 6;17(1):933.

190. *Li M, Xue H, Wang W, Wen W, Wang Y. Increased obesity risks for being an only child in

China: findings from a nationally representative study of 19,487 children. Public Health. 2017 Dec;153:44-51.

191. *Li M, Xue H, Wen M, Wang W, Wang Y. Nutrition and physical activity related school

environment/policy factors and child obesity in China: a nationally representative study of 8573 students in 110 middle schools. Pediatr Obes. 2017 Dec;12(6):485-493.

2018 192. *Min J, Zhao Y, Sliviska L, Wang Y. Systematic examination of the double burden of disease:

coexistence of undernutrition and obesity related non-communicable disease worldwide. Obes Rev. 2018 Jan;19(1):49-61.

193. *Wang V, Min J, Xue H, Xu F, Wang H, Wang Y. Factors contributing to sex differences in childhood obesity prevalence in China. Public Health Nutrition. 2018. Feb 26:1-9.

194. *Mulugeta W, Glick M, Min J, Xue H, Noe MF, Wang Y. Longitudinal Changes and High-

Risk Subgroups for Obesity and Overweight/Obesity Among Refugees in Buffalo, NY, 2004-2014.

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J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2018 Feb;5(1):187-194. 195. Wen X, Eiden RD, Justicia-Linde FE, Wang Y, Higgins ST, Thor N, Haghdel A, Peters AR,

Epstein LH. A multicomponent behavioral intervention for smoking cessation during pregnancy: a nonconcurrent multiple-baseline design. Transl Behav Med. 2018 Apr 10. doi: 10.1093/tbm/iby027. [Epub ahead of print]

196. *Min J, Kim G, Lim H, Carvajal N, Lloyd C, Wang Y. Effect of the Adapted National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mission X international child fitness program on young children and their parents in South Korea. Global Health Promotion. 2018: 1757975918760517.

197. *Min J, Yan F, Wang Y. Obesity, body image and its impact on children’s eating and exercise behaviors in China: A nationwide longitudinal study. Prev Med. 2018;106:101-106.

198. *Mulugeta W, Xue H, Glick M, Min J, Noe MF, Wang Y. Burden of Mental Illness and Non-

communicable Diseases and Risk Factors for Mental Illness Among Refugees in Buffalo, NY, 2004-2014. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2018 May 21. doi: 10.1007/s40615-018-0498-6. [Epub ahead of print]

199. *Yang HY, Chen HJ, Hsu YJ, Cheskin LJ, Wang Y. Impact of weight-related advice from healthcare professionals on body mass index of patients in the USA. Public Health. 2018 Jun;159:50-57.

200. *Min J, Wen X, Xue H, Wang Y. Ethnic disparities in childhood BMI trajectories and obesity

and potential causes among 29,250 US children: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth and Kindergarten Cohorts. Int J Obes (Lond). 2018 Jun 15. doi: 10.1038/s41366-018-0091-4. [Epub ahead of print]

201. *Min J, Tan Z, Abadie L, Townsend S, Xue H, Wang Y. An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mission-X Child Health Promotion Program in the United States. Am J Health Promot. 2018 Jul;32(6):1333-1339.

202. Lim H, Lee HJ, Choue R, Wang Y. Trends in Fast-Food and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage

Consumption and Their Association with Social Environmental Status in South Korea. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2018 Jul;118(7):1228-1236.e1.

203. *Chen HJ, Xue H, Liu S, Huang TTK, Wang YC, Wang Y. Obesity trend in the United States and economic intervention options to change it: A simulation study linking ecological epidemiology and system dynamics modeling. Public Health. 2018 Aug;161:20-28.

204. *Min J, Jahns L, Xue H, Kandiah J, Wang Y. Americans' Perceptions about Fast Food and

How They Associate with Its Consumption and Obesity Risk. Adv Nutr. 2018 Sep 1;9(5):590-601.

205. *Xue H, Slivka L, Igusa T, Huang TT, Wang Y. Applications of systems modelling in obesity research. Obes Rev. 2018 Sep;19(9):1293-1308.

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206. *Min J, Xue H, Wang Y. Association between household poverty dynamics and childhood overweight risk and health behaviours in the United States: a 8-year nationally representative longitudinal study of 16 800 children. Pediatr Obes. 2018 Aug 15. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12292. [Epub ahead of print]

207. Shi Z, Li M, Wang Y, Liu L, El-Obeid T. High iron intake is associated with poor cognition

among Chinese old adults, and varied by weight status—a 15-y longitudinal study in 4852 adults. Am J Clin Nutr 2018;108:1–8. In press.

208. *Min J, Xue H, Goodale H, Brey R, Wang Y. Disparities in Obesity in the United States and

Implications for Public Health Intervention Efforts. Obesity Review, in press.

209. *Min J, Fan Y, Wang Y. Mismatch in children’s weight assessment, ideal body image and rapidly increased obesity prevalence in China: A 10-year nationwide longitudinal study. Obesity, in press.

Invited Commentaries in Peer-reviewed Journals 1. Wang Y, Child and Adolescent Obesity (book review), JAMA. 2003;289(14):1863.

2. Wang Y, Tussing L. Culturally Appropriate Approaches Are Needed to Reduce Ethnic Disparity

in Childhood Obesity. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2004;104(11):1664-6. 3. Caballero B, Wang Y. Commentary: Obesity and mortality—light at the end but still a long tunnel.

International Journal of Epidemiology 2006;35(1):21-2. 4. Wang Y. The influence of blood pressure on risks for cardiovascular diseases: What should be

done now? American Journal of Hypertension 2008;21(3):247.

5. Chen X, Wang Y. Commentary: Optimal body mass index cut points. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010 2010;39(4):1045-7. [YW as corresponding author]

6. Zhang Q, Wang Y. Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Americans’ Adherence to Federal Dietary Recommendations. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2012;112(5):614-6. [YW as corresponding author]

7. Wang Y. Prevention of Childhood Obesity: What’s the Current Evidence? The World Health Organization (WHO) electronic Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA) (http://www.who.int/elena/en/index.html) 2012.

Letters in Peer-reviewed Journals 1. Wang Y, Wang JQ. Standard definition of child overweight and obesity worldwide: authors'

standard compares well with WHO standard. British Medical Journal (BMJ). 2000;321:1158. 2. Wang Y, Popkin BM, Wang X. Reply to RS Lindsay et al (Tracking of body mass index during

childhood and adolescence). American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2001;74: 149-50.

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3. Wang Y, Wang X. Letter to the Editor. RE: "Tracking of cardiovascular risk factors: the Tromso

Study, 1979-1995”. American Journal of Epidemiology 2002;155:1144-1145. 4. Wang Y. Is Obesity Associated With Early Sexual Maturation? Pediatrics 2004;113;171-172. 5. Koh-Banerjee P, Wang Y, Willett W. Authors’ response to Snijder et al. RE: Changes in Body

Weight and Body Fat Distribution as Risk Factors for Clinical Diabetes in U.S. Men. American Journal of Epidemiology 2004;160: 1134-1135.

6. Wang Y, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, Hu FB. Is waist circumference good enough as a

simple anthropometric measure for predicting obesity-related health risks? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2005;82 1135.

7. Wang Y, Zhang Q. Author’s response to “Poverty threshold as an indicator of the association

between childhood overweight and SES over time” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2007;85(5):1437-8.

8. *Beydoun MA, Beydoun H, Wang Y. Author’s response to “Obesity and central obesity as risk

factors for incident dementia and its sub-types: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” Obesity Reviews 2008;9(6):633-4.

9. Qu W, Zheng W, Wang S, Wang Y. China's new national standard for drinking water takes effect. Lancet. 2012;380(9853):e8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61884-4.

Book chapters, monographs and manuals 1. Wang Y, Mi J, Shang X. Childhood obesity: an important public health problem. In “On the

Frontiers of Science (Vol 1): Life Science” Ed, Liu GK. Tsinghua University Press and Interpress, Beijing, 2003.

2. Wang Y. Prevalence and trends in childhood obesity. In “Childhood Obesity: The New Crisis in

Public Health” The International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF)’s Report to the WHO. Ed, Tim Lobstein, Louise Baur, Ricardo Uauy, 2003.

3. Wang Y. Must A. Global burden of childhood obesity. In “The Nation’s Nutrition”. Ed. E

Kennedy and RJ Deckelbaum, The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI)(book chapter) 2007. 4. Wang Y, Kumanyika S. Epidemiology of Obesity in the United States. In “Handbook of Obesity

Prevention,” Ed. Kumanyika S and Brownson R, Springer (book chapter) 2007. 5. Wang Y. “The Link Between Leisure Time Activities And the Increasing Prevalence of Obesity

Among Youth In Developed Countries” in the United Nations 2007 World Youth Report. 6. Wang Y. Child Obesity and Health. In Encyclopedia of Public Health. Ed. Kris Heggenhougen.

Elsevier 2010.

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7. Wang Y, Mi J, Tao Y, Chen P. Epidemiology of obesity in children and adolescents in China. In Epidemiology of Obesity in Children and Adolescents. Springer (book chapter), 2011.

8. Rodríguez G, Pietrobelli A, Wang Y, Moreno LA. Methodological aspects for childhood and

adolescence obesity epidemiology. In Epidemiology of Obesity in Children and Adolescents. Springer (book chapter), 2011.

9. Wang Y. Gender, Ethnicity/race, Socioeconomic Status, and Obesity. In Obesity. Ed Manuel

Serrano Ríos, José M Ordovás & José A.Gutiérrez-Fuentes. (book chapter) 2011.

10. Zhang Q, Wang Y. Fruit and Vegetable Prices, Dietary Intakes and Income: Potential Cost versus Benefit. In Nutrients, Dietary Supplements, and Nutriceuticals: Cost Analysis versus Clinical Benefits. (book chapter) 2012.

11. Wang Y, Chen HJ. Use of percentiles and Z-scores in anthropometry Use of percentiles and Z-

scores in anthropometry. In Handbook of Anthropometry: Physical Measures of Human Form in Health and Disease. Springer. (book chapter), 2012.

12. Wang Y, Wu Y, Wilson RF, Bleich S, Cheskin L, Weston C, Showell N, Fawole O, Lau B, Segal

J. Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Comparative Effectiveness Review and Meta-Analysis [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2013 Jun. PMID: 23865092. http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ehc/products/330/1524/obesity-child-report-130610.pdf [This is an 835-page report, available online.]

13. Wang Y. Lim HL, Epidemiology of Obesity: The Global Situation In Integrative Weight

Management, Springer. (book chapter), 2nd edition, 2014 14. Wang Y. Lim HL, Epidemiology of obesity in children. In Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in

Health and Disease, Springer. (book chapter), 2014

15. Wang Y, Wang L, Child obesity and health in “International Encyclopedia of Public Health” 2nd edition, (book chapter), 2015

16. Wang Y. Global perspectives of childhood obesity: Prevalence, contributing factors and

prevention.in the book “Childhood Obesity: Causes, Consequences and Intervention Approaches”, edited by Michael Goran, (book chapter), 2016

17. Wang Y. "Chapter 9. Potential mechanisms in childhood obesity: causes and prevention", In "Energy balance and obesity, IARC Working Group Reports, Volume 10, 2017", Edited by Isabelle Romieu, Laure Dossus, and Walter C. Willett, WHO http://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Working-Group-Reports/Energy-Balance-And-Obesity-2017 [It is a commissioned report for the World Health Organization (WHO) organized Energy Balance and Obesity Workshop, 2016; which included 17 invited international leaders in the field. IARC Working Group Reports Volume 10: Energy balance and obesity. http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/2017/workinggroupreport10.php

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[This is WHO IARC commissioned project: “The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is pleased to announce the publication of a new IARC Working Group Report. The report, entitled Energy Balance and Obesity, reviews the drivers of obesity, including the roles of excess energy intake and specific foods and nutrients in the global obesity epidemic. The report is the result of the collaborative work of 17 international experts and is based on the latest scientific evidence.”]

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Main research interests:

• Childhood obesity: assessment, global trends, causes, health consequences, and prevention • Child growth, sexual maturation, and health • Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs, eg, hypertension, cardiovascular disease,

metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes) • Tracking of obesity and lifestyles from childhood to adulthood, changes in American

children’s and adults’ eating and physical activity patterns over time • Health disparities • Global health • Calcium and dairy consumption and health outcomes • Nutritional epidemiology; application of advanced statistical data analysis methods in

epidemiologic research; BigData • Application of systems science methods in public health • mHealth