Prof  Koh Woon Puay is a Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. Prof Koh is also Assistant Dean for Faculty Development at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, lead investigator for the Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme at NUS Medicine, and Director of the Clinician-Scientist Development Unit at NUS Medicine. She is also a Principal Investigator of the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a 63,257-strong cohort of middle-aged and elderly Chinese Singaporeans established for the long-term study of dietary and environmental determinants of chronic diseases common among Singaporeans. She has co-authored over 365 scientific papers on diet, lifestyle, and genes in relation to the risk of diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, gout, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and tuberculosis disease. She has received over $24 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, and the National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore. She received her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS (Honours)) from NUS (1992), Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Sydney, Australia (2001), and postdoctoral training in epidemiology from the University of Southern California in the U.S.A. (2003).