Yu Wins Best Visual Poster Award at the 2025 Nature Forum on Healthy Aging

On 13–14 November 2025, Yu participated in the Nature Forum: Measuring Healthy Ageing, held at Khalifa University, UAE, as part of the 3rd annual Healthy Longevity Symposium. The in-person event brought together international researchers, clinicians, and policymakers to discuss how healthy ageing can be measured, understood, and promoted across the life course, with a particular emphasis on biological ageing, functional capacity, and the role of digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

Yu presented a poster titled “Identifying profiles, trajectories, burden, social and biological factors in 3.3 million individuals with multimorbidity in England.” The work leverages large-scale longitudinal health records to identify multimorbidity profiles and disease trajectories across the population, and to examine how social and biological factors shape healthy ageing and disease accumulation over time. By integrating multimorbidity patterns with biomarker data at an unprecedented scale, the study provides new insights into the heterogeneity of ageing and chronic disease progression. For more information, please refer to the paper.

The poster was awarded the Best Visual Poster Award, recognising its clarity, visual design, and effective communication of complex population-scale analyses. The research aligns closely with the Forum’s themes, including the measurement of ageing trajectories using multidimensional datasets and the use of data-driven and AI-enabled approaches to inform public health and healthcare decision-making.