Affiliation: Professor of Nutrition at Simmons University, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Teresa Fung received her BS and MS in nutrition from Cornell University, and her ScD in both nutrition and epidemiology from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.  She began her career as a Registered Dietician at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Currently, she is Professor of Nutrition at Simmons University and Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. In the last 20 years, her research has focused on methodology that assesses the quality of the entire diet, in particular, the development of a number of diet quality indexes. She also examines the association of various diet quality indexes and risk of chronic disease such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, elderly fracture, and weight change.  She has served as a member of a technical expert committee at USDA, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Nutrition, and a member of the Best Diet panel at U.S. News and World Report.