Dr Huaidong Du
Huaidong Du
MSc, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
- Clinical Trial Service Unit
Huaidong Du obtained her MD degree in 1994 and had been working as an ophthalmologist for 8 years in China. In 2009, she finished her MSc and PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Netherlands and joined CTSU afterwards. Currently, she is a senior research fellow working on the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study with main researches focus on diet, physical activity, adiposity, diabetes, eye diseases and etc. Since 2013, she has been involved in coordinating the currently on-going second resurvey of the CKB, which includes 25,000 participants from 10 study areas in China.
Recent publications
Short-term effects of temperature on physical activity and sedentary behavior in Chinese adults: An accelerometer-based analysis.
Journal article
Wei L. et al, (2026), Environ Int, 210
Long-term cardiovascular risk after severe exacerbation of COPD: a population-based cohort study.
Journal article
Ding Y. et al, (2026), ERJ Open Res, 12
Phenome-Wide Associations of Polygenic Scores for Schizophrenia and Major Depression in 100,000 Chinese Adults.
Journal article
Wang B. et al, (2026), Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci, 6
Impact of sleep habits on life expectancy free of cardiovascular disease in the Chinese population: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Sun Q. et al, (2026), J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
Young adulthood adiposity in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults.
Journal article
Fan L. et al, (2026), Sci Bull (Beijing)

