Yun Soo Hong

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Professional overview

Yun Soo Hong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the NYU School of Global Public Health. Dr. Hong is a physician epidemiologist who received her medical degree in Ewha Womans University (Seoul), completed her internship and residency in Samsung Medical Center (Seoul), and received her MHS and PhD degrees in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore). In addition, she completed her postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore). 

Dr. Hong's research focuses on cardiovascular disease epidemiology, integrating genetics, multi-omics, and environmental exposures to identify novel determinants of cardiometabolic health. She leverages large-scale population-based cohort studies, including the UK Biobank, the All of Us Research Program, the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed), and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, to address critical questions in cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention. Dr. Hong’s work (80 original articles) has been published in leading journals including Nature Communications, European Respiratory Journal, Heart, and Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

At the School of Global Public Health, Dr. Hong is teaching epidemiological methods (Epidemiological Methods and Design), covering different study designs and causal inference methods. Dr. Hong is also a methods consultant editor at Annals of Internal Medicine. Through her work, Dr. Hong aims to advance precision medicine and public health approaches that can inform strategies for cardiovascular and chronic disease prevention and treatment. She is also interested in advancing training and academic programs for master’s and PhD students.

Education

MHS, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

PhD, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

MD, Ewha Womans University

Publications

Publications

Mitochondrial heteroplasmy is a risk factor for the development of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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Hearing changes and trajectories during the menopausal transition and their association with metabolic factors

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Longitudinal patterns and group heterogeneity of depressive symptoms during menopausal transition in middle-aged Korean women

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Menopausal stage transitions and associations with overall and domain-specific perceived stress in middle-aged Korean women

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Reversible compromise of physiological resilience by accumulation of heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations

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