Dr. Yuhong Dong, The Epoch Times’ senior medical columnist, is an award-winning senior medical scientific expert in infectious disease and neuroscience who is currently dedicated to researching solid modern scientific evidence of the profound connection between the mind, body, and spirit at the cellular, genetic, and systemic levels. Dr. Dong, an M.D. and Ph.D., previously served as a medical adviser and pharmacovigilance leader at Novartis headquarters in Switzerland for seven years. Over the course of a decade of research, Dr. Dong has uncovered that in addition to nutrition and exercise, mental wellbeing and moral posture significantly affects immunity and overall health, something evidenced by a wide range of scientific studies. She aims to empower people to take charge of their own health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was featured as a medical expert on a weekly live broadcast on NTDTV and the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times. Her videos have been viewed millions of times. Dr. Dong earned her medical degree from Beijing Medical University in 1996 and Ph.D. from Beijing University in 2002. Then, as a doctor of internal medicine, she specialized in infectious diseases and immunology. Dr. Dong is not a member of the Chinese Communist Party and opposes its continued oppression of her fellow Chinese people.