Dr. Mei Chung

Dr. Mei Chung is an Associate Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. She is a nutrition epidemiologist by training. Before she transitioned to the university, she was an Assistant Director of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) designated Evidence-based Practice Center at the Tufts Medical Center. She has more than a decade of experience conducting rigorous evidence synthesis across a wide range of health questions. Throughout her work, her analyses have informed the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s (USPSTF) clinical guidelines, coverage decisions in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and nutrition recommendations such as Dietary Reference Intake Values (DRIs) and Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). For the past five years, she has participated in several public health nutrition policy analyses with interdisciplinary expert committees at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and at the World Health Organization (WHO). Most recently, she was one of the planning members for NASEM’s workshop series on the use of meta-analyses in nutrition research and policy.