Research Staff

She received her bachelor degree in Engineering from China Agricultural University and received her master degree in Science from Duke University. She interned in World Health Organization China Office prior to joining DKU. Her research interests include health economics, non-communicable diseases, mHealth etc.

 

He has significant experience conducting water and air pollution monitoring along with various laboratory based sample analysis methods and quantified biomarkers in a variety of biological media (urine, blood, exhaled breath condensate) to characterize air pollution exposure or health impact among healthy adults, newborns, and patients with COPD, tuberculosis or ischemic heart disease. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Chemistry from Heilongjiang University, China in 2011.  Previously, he had years of working experience with multiple institutions like Duke Global Health Institute & Nicholas School of the Environment, Environmental Monitoring Center of Heilongjiang Province, Environmental Monitoring Center of Harbin City and etc.

 She received her bachelor degree in Preventive Medicine and master degree in Epidemiology and Health Statistics from Sichuan University, China. She has conducted researches related to quality assessment for community management of severe mental illness, policy study for reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, including multi-level data analyses. Her main job responsibilities are data analysis and statistical model building for NCD and aging research projects.

 He received his bachelor degree from Wuhan University, China in 2016, and graduated from DKU in 2018, receiving Master of Science degree in Global Health from Duke University. Previously, Shangzhi interned at African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya, and worked as a Graduate Student Research Assistant at GHRC of DKU in 2017. Shangzhi’s major research interests include community-based non-communicable disease prevention and control, eHealth-enabled health promotion, and primary health service delivery.