Bio

Dr Moy is a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She teaches Epidemiology, Nutritional Epidemiology, Research Methodology and Evidence-Based Medicine to both undergraduate and postgraduate candidates. Her research interests include Translational Research in the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the community setting, Workplace Wellness and the effects of obesity and lifestyle behaviours (diet, physical activity etc ) on NCDs. Dr Moy is an established researcher and included in the prestigious World’s Top 2 % Scientists in the Stanford University’s list for two conservative years (2019 and 2020). Her expertise in obesity research is ranked top 2.8% among the published authors worldwide on Obesity from 2010 through 2021 (ExpertScape). Currently, she heads a cohort study comprising of almost 15,000 teachers from the Peninsular Malaysia (CLUSTer). A biobank with serum, plasma and buffy coat was set up. The study aims to determine the temporal relationship between lifestyle practices (diet and physical activity) and stress with cardiovascular diseases with repeated measurements over time. Dr Moy is also actively involved in another study that works on the development of a mobile diet app using image capture as the dietary assessment method. The goal is to have users monitor their diet and for researchers in the nutrition field to have a better tool in diet assessment. Dr Moy has generated research grants amounting to more than RM2 million. She published more than 100 manuscripts in peer review journals. She is also active in supervising research candidates. To date, she has successfully supervised to completion more than 50 DrPH, PhD, MMedSc (Research) candidates. Dr Moy initiated and established the University of Malaya Wellness Program in 2008 and coordinated the program until 2013. She also co-ordinated the implementation of Clinical Epidemiology-Evidence Based Medicine module in the MBBS curriculum in 2008. She is the coordinator for the Master of Public Health (MPH) program since 2018 to Mac 2022. She serves as associate editors for international and local journals. She also reviews manuscripts for both local and international journals. She actively engages with the media in health advocacy especially in the prevention of obesity and NCDs, promotion of healthy lifestyle and lately in the preventive measures of COVID-19 as well as promotion of vaccination for COVID-19.