Yangbo Sun is currently working as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She completed BA Economics and MBBS (Preventive Medicine) at Peking University, holds PhD from The University of Hong Kong, and got postdoctoral degree in nutritional epidemiology from University of Iowa.

Her research interests include chronic disease epidemiology, modifiable lifestyle risk factors, lifecourse epidemiology, environmental chemicals, as well as maternal and child health.