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Professor Feng J He, PhD

Feng J

Professor of Global Health Research

Centre: Centre for Public Health & Policy

Email: f.he@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7882 6266

Profile

My research focuses on nutrition and global health, particularly on reducing dietary salt, sugar and saturated fat intake at the population level to prevent non-communicable diseases.

I qualified as a physician in China. After two years working in clinical posts, I went for postgraduate training in Cardiovascular Epidemiology and worked on various projects on the monitoring and prevention of cardiovascular disease for several years in China.

In 1996, I came to the UK and joined Professor Graham MacGregor's team at St George's University of London. I obtained my PhD degree in 2002. Since then, I have been doing research on the role of dietary salt and potassium intake, as well as the consumption of fruit and vegetables, in regulating blood pressure and preventing cardiovascular disease.

In 2009, I joined the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. I have continued my research on salt and, more recently, extended my research to reducing population sugar and saturated fat consumption to prevent non-communicable diseases.

I am now Deputy Director of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit Action on Salt China (ASC) at Queen Mary University of London and have been leading various research and public health programmes to reduce salt intake in China, as well as in Malaysia.

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