Supporting policy with scientific evidence

Christine Yung Hung works around food and consumers, is the awardee of the latest Food Policy Prize by the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium. She is affiliated with Ghent University (UGent) and European Cancer Leagues (ECL), offers policy insights that bridge the gap between public health nutrition, food science technology and agricultural economics. Her work aims to improve consumers’ food choice and behaviour in a way that matches with their preferences, using interdisciplinary approaches and policy tools such as food labelling, product reformulation, and dietary and physical activity marketing strategies, in collaboration with policymakers, NGOs, and food industries.

She also works with big data, uses artificial intelligence - machine learning to solve the puzzles related to public health, food security and consumption. She is also passionate about education and science communication, in the field of food and nutrition policies, professional conducts and ethics in biosciences, marketing and economics

Her research work is mainly funded by the European Commission and related to the EU population. She is also active in promoting collaborations with international institutes for knowledge transfer and capacity building in agro-food chain, with respect to human nutritional health and environmental sustainability. Currently her research group has collected a large amount of data on EU consumer (food and health-related) behaviour, nonetheless, not all results have been published through scientific journals, by joining the knowledge4policy community, those results will be shared to inform and strengthen evidence-based polices.