Chia-Ling Kuo

Associate Professor

Department of Public Health Sciences

Research Area(s) of Interest:  Statistical methods indication for associations with multiple age-related diseases and conditions

Dr. Chia-Ling Kuo is an Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences. She is a biostatistician by training. She received her PhD degree in Biostatistics from the University of Pittsburgh and pos-doctoral training in Statistical Genetics at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She has used existing data from large cohorts in the US and UK (e.g., UK Biobank, Health and Retirement Study, and Dog Aging Project) to address cutting-edge research questions in aging, with the focuses on biological aging, geroscience-guided interventions, pharmacogenetics and pharmacoepidemioloy. Dr. Kuo is a NIH-funded investigator. She led studies on APOE gene that has a geroscience including Alzheimer’s disease and COVID. She is also funded by NIH to identify modifiable exposures associated with telomere length and investigate how the associations impact health outcomes.  Additionally, she is a co-investigator in the data core to support the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at UConn and a co-investigator on multiple NIH-funded grants. In education, Dr. Kuo has provided statistical assistance to residents and fellows in the School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. She is a co-author, with the trainees, of 40 peer-reviewed articles. ​

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