Dr. Hung has extensive research experiences in cancer epidemiology at the international level, and has conducted several multicenter case-control studies on lung, head and neck, kidney, pancreas and childhood cancer. Her group is actively analyzing longitudinal data based on large-scale population and multi-generational birth cohorts in Europe, North America and Asia. In recent years, Dr. Hung has also been studying perinatal risk factors and trans-generational exposures related to health outcome and complex diseases based on birth cohorts and parent-child trio study.
Dr. Hung and her group have a stellar record of publication in the international peer review journals particularly in the field of genetic and molecular epidemiology, including high impact journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, the Journal of National Cancer Institute, and International Journal of Epidemiology. In 2018, Dr. Hung was awarded the prestigious Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Integrative Molecular Epidemiology to recognize her international leadership in this field.