encouraged international collaboration and created "sister" relationships with five Chinese cancer centers. In March 2019, Wu was appointed Dean of the School of Public Health of her alma mater Zhejiang University. Contributions Wu is known for designing cohort studies for the purpose of discovering the causes of cancer and potential prevention measures. She and her colleagues conducted studies showing that fifteen minutes of moderate exercise per day can increase lifespan by an average of three years, that eating highly cooked meat can contribute to kidney cancer, that high-carbohydrate diets can contribute to lung cancer in non-smokers, and that chronic diseases such as high blood pressure or diabetes can also contribute to cancer. References Living people American women epidemiologists American epidemiologists Year of birth missing (living people) University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston alumni Fudan University alumni Zhejiang University alumni Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese epidemiologists American women physicians Chinese women physicians Chinese women scientists University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center faculty Academic staff of Zhejiang University People from Jintan District Scientists from Changzhou American women academics 21st-century American women