Lilian Cheung, DSc, RD, is lecturer and director of health promotion and communication in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work focuses on translating and communicating science-based recommendations to the general public to promote healthy lifestyles. She is editorial director of the School’s Nutrition Source website, which provides research-based guidance for healthy living. She also serves as co-editorial director of the Obesity Prevention Source, a website providing science-based information to support policy changes at the community level, and the Asian Diabetes Prevention Initiative, a website offering research-based public health messages for policymakers and the public to help counter the rising rates of type 2 diabetes in Asia. She has co-authored several books designed to foster healthy lifestyle development in young people, including the school-based nutrition and physical activity curriculum Eat Well & Keep Moving. As a student and practitioner of mindfulness, she actively promotes mindful living as a path toward well-being, and is co-author, with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, of Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life that is in 17 languages.
