Xin (Tracy) Li

Tracy was born and raised in Guangdong, China, and commenced her academic journey in the US in 2014. She obtained her master's degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, specializing in Human Nutrition within the International Health Department. Tracy's research interests center on investigating the association between diets and age-related functional changes in older adults. Currently, she is involved in a project studying the relationships between ultra-processed food consumption and frailty risk in older adults, utilizing data from the InCHIANTI Study. Tracy's dissertation topic intends to explore the association between dietary quality and physical function changes in older adults at the molecular level.