Foundation-funded Research on Childhood Obesity Wins Accolades

Our heartiest congratulations go to Dr Melvin Chung Hsien Liang, whose research on childhood obesity was funded by the Foundation. Dr Melvin was awarded the First Prize in the Young Investigator’s Symposium, Malaysian Association for the Study of Obesity (MASO) 2019 Scientific Conference on Obesity in Kuala Lumpur on 16 October 2019.  Later that month, he received the Suaidi Award for the best performing postgraduate student throughout the MPH and DrPH programme in UNIMAS in Kuching.

His research on Childhood Obesity: Effects of Physical Activity on Nutritional Status and Motor Skills Performance among children aged 4-6 years old in Peri-Urban Kuching, Sarawak has been featured in a few issues of HeartTalk and it was also published in a UK-based international journal Early Child Development and Care.