Rate My Professor Mary Chong

Mary Foong-Fong Chong is Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. She serves as Assistant Dean (Education) and Programme Director of the Master of Public Health programme. Trained as a clinical dietitian, she earned her PhD from the University of Oxford and completed post-doctoral training at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on maternal and child nutrition, examining diet and lifestyle behaviours in relation to maternal and child health outcomes. She has held prior appointments including Principal Investigator at the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A*STAR, and various research and clinical dietitian roles in the United Kingdom and Singapore.

Chong contributes to the field through leadership in public health education and research on perinatal nutrition, dietary patterns, and child development. She received the NUS SPH Faculty Young Researcher Award for 2018/2019. Her work appears in peer-reviewed journals on topics including dietary indices, gestational diabetes, breastfeeding, and offspring health outcomes from cohort studies such as GUSTO and S-PRESTO. She has served in advisory roles related to perinatal nutrition and parenting, and maintains joint appointments in paediatrics and medicine at NUS.