Dr Ryan Au Yeung joined the Department of Population Health, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University in August, 2026. He obtained his Bachelor of Science (Biology, 2007), Master of Public Health (with Distinction, 2008), and PhD (Epidemiology, 2012) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He has received overseas training in public health research in Columbia University (USA) and University of Bristol (UK) during his times as postdoctoral fellow and Research Assistant Professor at HKU.

Dr Au Yeung is amongst one of the earliest groups of researchers implementing Mendelian randomization studies in East Asia. His research agenda focuses on the use of this method to elucidate causes and consequences of cardiometabolic diseases and evaluate drug reposition opportunities for cardiovascular and diabetic medications. He led some of the earliest Mendelian randomization studies to support possible reposition of metformin in prevention of cardiovascular diseases, cancer and healthy longevity.  He was also the PI of Hong Kong "Children of 1997" birth cohort during his time at HKU.

Dr Au Yeung has published more than 170 peer reviewed articles, with an H-index of 32 (Scopus, August, 2026). He has received funding of more than 10 million HKD from Health and Medical Research Fund of Health Bureau (Hong Kong), and General Research Fund (GRF) of Research Grant Council (Hong Kong). He is also Co-PI of 3 Collaborative Research Fund, Research Grant Council (Hong Kong). He was awarded the inaugural Health and Medical Research Fund Research Fellowship (2014), the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) Article of the Year (2015), the Research Output Prize, LKS Faculty of Medicine, HKU (2020), and the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong), National Academy of Medicine, USA (2021). 

• Cardiovascular diseases
• Epidemiology
• Genomics, Metabolomics, and Proteomics
• Mendelian randomization
• Type 2 diabetes

PhD, MPH, FFPH

Editorship

• PLOS Medicine
• Virology Journal

Editorial Board Member

• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Communications Medicine
• BMC Medicine