Dr. Ai Zhao earned her Ph.D. from Peking University. In 2013, she was a Visiting scholar at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University in 2017, and worked as a Lecturer at Peking University from 2013 to 2020. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University. Her research interests include maternal and child nutrition, nutrition and chronic disease, nutritional epidemiology, and global nutrition.