Biography & Research:
Dr Zumin Shi is a professor in Nutrition at Qatar University. He got his medical degree at Beijing Medical University and was conferred a PhD in the area of epidemiology from the University of Oslo. Dr Shi is the leading nutritional epidemiologist in several cohort studies in China, Australia and Qatar. He had worked at the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China for more than 10 years before he moved to Australia. In 2018, he joined Qatar University. Dr Shi’s main research interest is the relationship between food intake, food safety, lifestyles and chronic diseases including diabetes, obesity, anemia and cardiovascular diseases. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications.