Lilian Cheung

Biography

Dr. Lilian Cheung is Lecturer, Director of Health Promotion and Communication, as well as Director of Mindfulness Research and Practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Department of Nutrition. She is the Editorial Director of The Nutrition Source, the school's nutrition website for health professionals, media and consumers. She also serves as co-editorial director of the Obesity Prevention Source, a website providing science based information for policy changes at the community level, as well as the Asian Diabetes Prevention Initiative, a website providing research-based evidence for policy makers and public with the goal of reversing the spread of type 2 diabetes in Asia. Her work focuses on the translation of science-based recommendations into public health communications and programs, to promote healthy lifestyles for chronic disease prevention and control.

She is the co-Principal Investigator and co-author of Eat Well and Keep Moving (2001, 2nd edition 2007, 3rd edition 2015), a globally disseminated school-based nutrition and physical activity program for upper elementary school children. She is a collaborator at the Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Other work includes her role as co-editor of Child Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity (1995) with the late Surgeon General Dr. Julius Richmond, and co-author of Be Healthy! It's A Girl Thing: Food, Fitness and Feeling Great! (2003, 2nd edition 2010), a book written for adolescent girls. Her latest book Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life (2010, 2011) co-authored with Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, is in 17 languages.

Education and Training

• M.S., Nutrition
  Harvard School of Public Health
• D.Sc., Nutrition
  Harvard School of Public Health

Publications

• Mindful eating and diet quality among U.S. adults with lower incomes.

  Hammad NM, Slotnick MJ, Fung TT, Gilbert-Diamond D, Cheung LWY, Leung CW. J Acad Nutr Diet 2024 Nov 13

• An Expanded Model for Mindful Eating for Health Promotion and Sustainability: Issues and Challenges for Dietetics Practice.

  Fung TT, Long MW, Hung P, Cheung LW. J Acad Nutr Diet 2016 07

• Media Competition Implementation for the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study (MA-CORD): Adoption and Reach.

  Criss S, Cheung L, Giles C, Gortmaker S, Viswanath K, Kwass JA, Davison K. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2016 Apr 05

• Associations of food stamp participation with dietary quality and obesity in children.

  Leung CW, Blumenthal SJ, Hoffnagle EE, Jensen HH, Foerster SB, Nestle M, Cheung LW, Mozaffarian D, Willett WC. Pediatrics 2013

• Public support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

  Long MW, Leung CW, Cheung LW, Blumenthal SJ, Willett WC. Public Health Nutr 2014