Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD

is the Neely Family Professor and Chair of the Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, and a core faculty member at Tufts Food Is Medicine Institute. She is a nutritional epidemiologist with expertise in assessing dietary intake patterns, trends, and disparities in the population, and conducting observational studies and clinical trials to investigate the role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention and control. She has led pioneering work that assessed dietary intake in cancer survivors and its associations with treatment exposure, chronic health conditions, and quality of life. Dr. Zhang is committed to translating scientific evidence into programs, practices, and policies. She has developed intervention programs that help parents transition their family into healthy eating soon after the child completes active cancer treatment, and is leading Food is Medicine interventio