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Dr. Simin Liu is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Director of the Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health & Nutrition at the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, University of California, Irvine (UCI). Additionally, he holds a joint appointment as Professor of Medicine at the UCI School of Medicine and has been recognized as an Adjunct Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Visiting Professor at Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine. His research integrates epidemiology, genomics, and nutrition to address complex cardiometabolic diseases through causal inference and global population studies.
- MD in Clinical Medicine, Jinan University School of Medicine
- MS in Epidemiology, State University of New York at Albany
- MPH in Quantitative Methods, Harvard University
- ScD in Epidemiology and Nutrition (double major with Biostatistics minor), Harvard University
- MA in Master of Arts Ad eundem (honorary), Brown University
Dr. Liu’s research focuses on the genetic and environmental determinants of cardiometabolic diseases, emphasizing gene-nutrient interactions and biomarker discovery. His lab pioneered the G6P framework for integrating multi-platform data to identify causal relationships, with groundbreaking work on SHBG gene variants in diabetes and dietary glycemic load in cardiovascular risk. He employs interdisciplinary methodologies spanning genetics, molecular biology, and clinical epidemiology to study diverse populations across age, ethnicity, and geographic regions.
His recent publications highlight trends in environmental and nutritional risk factors, genetic and metabolic biomarkers, and global cardiometabolic health. Key topics include dietary interventions for heart disease, gene-environment interactions in diabetes, and socioeconomic determinants of cardiovascular outcomes, reflecting his commitment to precision medicine and public health policy.
Awardee of the NIH K08, AHA Fellow, ASCI and AES membership, and multiple mentoring honors (UCLA, Brown University, AHA), Dr. Liu has mentored over 100 trainees. His work is supported by grants for global health, including the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Global Health and CAPES/PRINT Visiting Professorship.
