Dr. Yong Zhang is a professor at the School of Public Health, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China. He graduated from Chongqing Medical University with a major in preventive medicine in 1998, obtained a master’s degree in nutrition and food hygiene from West China School of Public Health in 2004, and obtained a Ph.D. in laboratory medicine from Chongqing Medical University in 2010. He was a visiting scholar at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, in 2015. He hosted and participated in more than 20 national and Chongqing scientific research projects and more than 10 other horizontal projects. He has won the second prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, the Advanced Science and Technology Worker of Chongqing Nutrition Society, and the Advanced Worker of Chongqing Going to the Countryside. He is a visiting professor at the Health Management Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, the director of the Chongqing Nutrition Society, a member of the Nutritional Toxicology Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society, and a member of the Chongqing Food Safety Local Standard Review Committee. His research directions are nutritional epidemiology, nutritional assessment, and nutritional intervention.