Liwei Chen

Biography

Dr. Chen has served as Principle Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator for several federal, state, and university funded research projects and has received over $3 million external research funding as PI. Currently, she is the PI of a $2.7 million NIH R01 grant on prenatal care. She has extensive experience in study design and data analysis of cohort study and clinical trials. She has expertise on longitudinal analysis, survival analysis, complex survey design analysis, systematic review and meta-analysis. Dr. Chen published 4 book chapters, 42 conference abstracts, and 36 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals (e.g. Circulation, Diabetes Care, and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition). Her research has been widely reported in high impact media (e.g. CNN, NPR, FOX News) and has been cited more than 900 times in published articles. Dr. Chen is the member of American College of Epidemiology (AEC), Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), American Heart Association (AHA), American Diabetes Association (ADA). She is also the invited reviewer for 19 biomedical journals, including Circulation, JAMA, American Journal of Epidemiology, Diabetes Care, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Archives of Internal Medicine (AIM), Annals of Internal Medicine, American of Epidemiology (AJE), and PLoS ONE.

Research Interest

Nutrition and Chronic Disease Epidemiology; Maternal and Child Health; Women’s Health; Life Course Approach; Disease Screening & Risk Prediction; Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis; Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER); Mobile Health (mHealth).