Dr. Yan Du received her Bachelor degree in Chinese Pharmacology from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Honours in 2005 in China. She received her Maser of Public Health in Epidemiology degree with Dean’s Scholastic Award in 2008 from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in 2006. She received her Master of Science in Human Genetics degree (2010) and Doctor of Public Health degree with Student Leadership Award (2011) in Epidemiology from the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, with particular focus on genetic epidemiology and cancer. She finished a one-year Global Clinical Scholar Research Training Program from Harvard Medical School in 2019. She was inducted to the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health (Eta Chapter) in 2006; and was the first class of Certified in Public Health (CPH) Professionals in 2008 and is a member of the Charter Class, and have been continuously re-certified. Dr. Yan Du joined the Department of Epidemiology, Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, China in 2011 as an assistant professor, and then joined the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University, China in 2015 as a Research Associate. Her research interests are in cancer epidemiology, with a focus on evaluating cancer biomarkers/ drugs/interventions using an epidemiological approach, especially randomized clinical trial.