Mary L. Peng MPH, a volunteer research affiliate with CHIL, is deeply passionate about integrating design thinking with patient-centered care, whole-person care, and preventive healthcare, committed to embedding equity-driven health tech, mobile health(mHealth), and user-centered digital health solutions into a healthcare ecosystem customized to every patient. During her time at Yale, Peng was also an implementation scientist at Dr. Ashley Hagaman’s Innovation Lab at the Yale Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS), where her team conduced systematic scoping reviews to understand the different implementation strategies to improve implementation of evidence-based practices as well as various implementation outcomes and how they are assessed. As a self-taught artist featured by Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Photoshop, Yale Schwarzman Center, and New Britain Museum of American Art, Peng is also passionate about blending the landscapes of art and science to improve people’s holistic well-being. Peng is also a champion of mindful living and holistic well-being, and aspires to merge the sensorial experience of art with the creative capacity of health technology to create digital health tools.

Peng received her B.A. from University of Virginia, where she majored in Global Studies and double minored in Anthropology and Philosophy. Peng received her Master of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Yale University and Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health from Harvard Medical School. Peng was awarded the Horstmann Scholarship 2021-2023 at Yale University , the Catherine F. Underwood Murray ’89 Scholarship 2020-2021 and the Lorna Sundberg Scholarship Award 2020 at University of Virginia for outstanding dedication to community service and academic performance. She was also the recipient of a four-year merit-based Singapore Ministry of Education Senior-Middle 1 (SM1) Scholarship 2013-2018.
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Mary has a black belt in taekwondo.