Jing Song

Jing Song is an Honorary Lecturer at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London. She holds a PhD in epidemiology and biostatistics from Peking University. Her work focuses on evaluating nutrition policies and interventions to address dietary risks like high salt and calorie intake, which are major contributors to non-communicable diseases. She leads projects in both the UK and China, emphasizing population-level health impact assessments.

Her research spans dietary epidemiology, public health policy evaluation, and intervention design. Key projects include app-based salt reduction programs in schools, longitudinal tracking of dietary changes in families, and nationwide analyses of sodium reduction strategies in China. She has contributed to global policy discussions through systematic reviews of nutrition labeling effectiveness and analysis of FDA sodium targets.

Her work often combines robust statistical methods with real-world intervention trials, including cluster randomized controlled trials assessing home cooking education and restaurant sodium reduction. Recent studies highlight persistent effects of school-based interventions on family dietary habits and explored biases in using spot urine for salt intake estimation.

Jing collaborates with the Research & Action on Salt and Obesity Unit, leveraging cross-disciplinary teams to bridge epidemiological research with actionable public health measures. Her studies frequently address methodological challenges in dietary assessment and advocate for evidence-based policy acceleration to mitigate premature mortality from modifiable dietary risks.