Jiying Ling is an Associate Professor and PhD Program Assistant Director at Michigan State University College of Nursing.

Dr. Lingadvances family health promotion through implementing cutting-edge, family-centered, bio-behavioral interventions to reduce health disparities in childhood obesity. Her impact encompasses: developing and disseminating highly scalable bio-behavioral interventions to reduce obesity among racially diverse, low-income families; translating research into the national Head Start program to influence early childhood development policy; and integrating research on prevention of childhood obesity into practice and education nationally and internationally. Through community engagement, Dr. Ling has made a substantial impact both locally and nationally through Head Start, and internationally by her work in China. She leads her interdisciplinary team in disseminating the effective, well-received “Eat My ABCs” healthy eating curriculum to nearly 5,000 racially diverse, low-income preschoolers and families. This curriculum provides a creative platform for integrating nutrition education into early childhood education. She has received numerous prestigious awards, over $5 million in research funding from multiple agencies including NIH and having more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and 120 presentations.

Dr. Ling earned her BSN from Shandong University in China, and MS in Biostatistics and PhD in Nursing from University of Louisville.