Yuqing received a BS in Biotechnology from Hainan University and MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh. Yuqing has worked at the Epidemiology Data Center of the University of Pittsburgh as data manager/analyst of Study of Women’s Health across the Nation (SWAN) after graduation. Currently, Yuqing is enrolled in Doctoral Program in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh under the mentorship of Dr. Maria Brooks and Dr. Alicia Colvin.

Yuqing’s research interests focus on the effect of psychosocial and lifestyle factors on cardiovascular diseases among midlife women. Yuqing is particularly interested in how depression and other psychiatric diseases as well as social determinants on the development of type II diabetes among women across the menopause.