Yihong Li is a Professor of Practice at the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health, the Cornell University Master of Public Health Program, and a Professor Emerita at New York University College of Dentistry. Yihong Li received a DDS in Dentistry at Peking University School of Stomatology in 1983 and earned an MPH and a DrPH in International Public Health at the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1988 and 1993, respectively. Yihong Li has served as an Assistant Professor (1984–1989) and an Associate Professor (1989–1990) at the Department of Preventive Dentistry, Peking University School of Stomatology; an Assistant Professor (1994–2000), a Director of the Oral Biology Graduate Program (1999–2001), and an Associate Professor (2001–2002) at the Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham; an Associate Professor (2002–2009) and Director at the International Research Collaboration (2002–2019); and a Professor (2009–2019) at the Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology, New York University College of Dentistry. She joined the Cornell University Master of Public Health Program in 2019.