PhD (National University of Singapore)

MMed (Shandong University)

BMed (Shandong University)

Prof. YIN received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Preventive Medicine from Shandong University in 2016 and 2019, respectively, and earned her PhD in Epidemiology from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore in 2023. From 2023 to 2025, she served as a Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. In November 2025, she joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen as an Assistant Professor.

An epidemiologist by training, Prof. YIN’s research focuses on women’s health across the life course, with particular emphasis on how reproductive health relates to long-term disease outcomes. Leveraging large-scale cohort studies, including the Nurses’ Health Study II, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, and the Asia Cohort Consortium, she investigates how early-life reproductive factors (such as pregnancy history and complications) interact with lifestyle, environmental exposures, and genetic susceptibility to shape chronic disease risk. Her research focuses particularly on Asian women and aims to generate actionable, evidence-based strategies to promote women’s health across the lifespan and support healthy aging.

Current research areas include:

• The roles of diet and lifestyle interventions, and their interactions with genetic susceptibility, in reproductive health and cardiometabolic diseases, to reduce chronic disease risk and promote healthy aging.
• Exploring the mechanisms underlying the effects of modifiable factors on women’s health, integrating biomarkers and multi-omics data.

1. Yin X, Yang J, Wang DD, Hu FB, Willett WC, Zhang C. Planetary health diet and risk of cardiometabolic diseases among women with gestational diabetes. JAMA Network Open. 2025;8(11):e2540170-e2540170. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.40170

2. Yin X, Bao W, Ley SH, et al. Sleep characteristics and long-term risk of type 2 diabetes among women with gestational diabetes. JAMA Network Open. 2025;8(3):e250142-e250142. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0142

3. Yin X, Chai JF, Lai GGY, et al. Interaction between polygenic risk score and reproductive factors in relation to lung cancer risk among Singaporean Chinese women. Public Health. 2025;241:115-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2024.12.050

4. Yin X, Thai BN, Tan YQ, Salinas SV, Yu LE, Seow WJ. When and where to exercise: An assessment of personal exposure to urban tropical ambient airborne pollutants in Singapore. Science of The Total Environment. 2024;906:167086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167086

5. Yin X, Kishida R, Abe SK, et al. Association between reproductive factors with lung cancer incidence and mortality: A pooled analysis of over 308,000 females in the Asia cohort consortium. International Journal of Cancer. 2024;154(12):2090-2105. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34866

6. Yin X, Chow T, Martinez MP, et al. 1294-P: Incident and Recurrent Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Future Type 2 Diabetes—A Cohort Study with a Focus on Asian Women. Diabetes. 2025;74(Supplement_1) https://doi.org/10.2337/db25-1294-P

7. Yin X, Lai GGY, Seow A, Tan DSW, Lim DW, Seow WJ. Dietary factors and the risk of lung cancer by epidermal growth factor receptor mutation status and histological subtypes. Front Public Health. 2022;10:1079543. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1079543

8. Yin X, Chan CPY, Seow A, Yau W-P, Seow WJ. Association between family history and lung cancer risk among Chinese women in Singapore. Scientific Reports. 2021;11(1):21862. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00929-9

9. Yin X, Zhu Z, Hosgood HD, Lan Q, Seow WJ. Reproductive factors and lung cancer risk: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health. 2020;20(1):1458. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09530-7

10. Yin X, Liu Q, Wei J, Meng X, Jia C. Association of daytime napping with prediabetes and diabetes in a Chinese population: Results from the baseline survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Journal of Diabetes. 2018;10(4):302-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.12605

11. Yang J, Yin X, Tobias DK, et al. Ultra-processed Foods and Diet Quality in Association With Long-term Weight Change and Progression to Type 2 Diabetes Among Individuals With a History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus—A Prospective Study. Diabetes Care. 2025;48(10):1827-1836. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc25-0700

12. Kishida R, Yin X, Abe SK, et al. Association between family history with lung cancer incidence and mortality risk in the Asia Cohort Consortium. International Journal of Cancer. 2025;156(4):723-733. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.35191

13. Yu G, Liu Y, Sun Q, Wang DD, Wang F, Yang J, Yin X, Zhang C. Functional and Compositional Differences in the Gut Microbiome Between Individuals With and Without a History of Gestational Diabetes. Current Developments in Nutrition. 2025;9:107183. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2025.107183

14. Chen Z, Yu G, Yin X, Zhang C. 1978-LB: Sleep Duration during Pregnancy and Cardiometabolic Biomarkers—A Multiracial Pregnancy Cohort. Diabetes. 2024;73(Supplement_1). https://doi.org/10.2337/db24-1978-LB

15. Loh WQ, Yin X, Kishida R, Chia SE, Ong CN, Seow WJ. Association between Vitamin A and E Forms and Prostate Cancer Risk in the Singapore Prostate Cancer Study. Nutrients. 2023;15(12):2677. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15122677

16. Jin XEF, Low DY, Ang L, Lu L, Yin X, et al. Exposure to cooking fumes is associated with perturbations in nasal microbiota composition: A pilot study. Environmental Research. 2023;234:116392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116392

17. Zhou Y, Wang T, Yin X, Sun Y, Seow WJ. Association of Weight Loss from Early to Middle Adulthood and Incident Hypertension Risk Later in Life. Nutrients. 2020;12(9):2622. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12092622

18. Cheng F, Yin X, Duan W, Ye R, Zhu Y, Jia C. Different-shaped curves for serum uric acid with and without diabetes: Results from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Journal of Diabetes. 2019;11(6):431-439. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.12863

19. Wei J, Yin X, Liu Q, Tan L, Jia C. Association between hypertension and cognitive function: A cross-sectional study in people over 45 years old in China. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2018;20(11):1575-1583. https://doi.org/10.1111/jch.13393

20. Chen X, Qu L, Yin X, Gai R. Analysis of Nuclear Medical Staffs' Knowledge and Attitude on Radioactive Medical Wastes Management. 2015; 24(2):164 -166. Chinese Journal of Radiological Health. https://doi.org/10.13491/j.cnki.issn.1004-714x.2015.02.026