Full Time Faculty

Baozhen Luo, Ph.D

Professor of Global Health, Co-Director of Center for the Studies of Contemporary China, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Baozhen Luo is an Professor of Global Health and Co-Director of Center for the Studies of Contemporary China at Duke Kunshan University.

Her research interest centers on population aging, social change, and welfare policies within a global context. Her current research examines elder care (long-term care) experiences, practices, and policies in the Global South (China and other developing countries) and the Global North (the United States and other developed countries). Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include China in the world, global aging, and elder care related health policies.

Her work has been published in The Gerontologist, Journal of Aging Studies, Journal of Chinese Governance, Aging and Society, Asian Social Science, Foreign Affairs, and other venues. She is the author of Shopping Cultures (VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 2007), and the editor of Research Handbook on the Sociology of Ageing (Edward Elgar, 2023, co-edited with Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and Liam Foster). She was elected a fellow of Gerontological Society of America in 2017.  She held a column focusing on aging policies and practices at thepaper.cn between 2015 and 2018 and appears frequently on China’s Global Television Network (CGTN) as a commentator.

Luo has a B.A. in journalism from Nanjing University, China, an M.A., and an PhD in sociology from Georgia State University, where she also obtained a graduate certificate in gerontology. Before joining Duke Kunshan, she was professor of sociology at Western Washington University, the U.S.

 

Chenkai Wu, MSc, MPH, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Global Health, Director of Graduate Studies for MSc-Global Health Program, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Chenkai Wu is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). Prior to joining DKU, he was a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at New York Medical College. Dr. Wu has a B.S. degree in Psychology from Zhejiang University and a M.S. in Human Development and Family Sciences, an M.P.H. in Biostatistics, and a Ph.D. in Public Health from Oregon State University. His main research interests include prevention of cardiovascular disease, frailty, and disability as well as promotion of healthy aging and longevity with three foci: (1) measurements, epidemiology, and clinical implications of frailty, (2) quantification and determinants of healthy aging and longevity, and (3) traditional and novel risk factors for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Dr. Wu has published extensively in the fields of epidemiology, gerontology, and cardiovascular disease. His work has been featured in major national and international media, including the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and National Public Radio.

Claudia Nisa, PhD

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Claudia Nisa is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at Duke Kunshan University.

Claudia’s scientific agenda is centered around identifying what works to helps us lead healthier and more sustainable lives. Her research program focuses on the effectiveness of behavioral interventions to promote healthy and sustainable living – eg. how to best promote energy savings, reduce food waste, increase cancer screening or blood donation. She translates behavioral science into practice to tackle these critical challenges, and to respond to calls for better informed policies. In order to do so, she uses a variety of methodological tools including (1) lab studies testing small-scale psychologically-driven interventions; (2) large field experiments testing how to scale-up behavioral interventions in natural settings; and (3) evidence-based policy evaluation, based on meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials and quasi-experiments.

 

Claudia has a BSc degree in Social and Organizational Psychology and a MSc in Economics and Social Policy from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She also holds a MSc in Decision Sciences and a PhD in Social Policy, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has served a postdoctoral researcher to ETH-Zurich in Singapore, and New York University in Abu Dhabi.

Daniel Weissglass, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Duke Kunshan University

Daniel E. Weissglass, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke Kunshan University.

Daniel E. Weissglass, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke Kunshan University and an Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University. Prof. Weissglass has a PhD in Philosophy from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He has two major research programs – one focusing on the fundamentals of cognition and the other on science, health, and technology policy. The fundamentals of cognition program explores intersections between philosophy and the cognitive sciences to improve our understanding of the mind and its operations. His science, health, and technology policy research explores ethical, epistemic, and political challenges arising from contemporary advances in technology and develops policy recommendations to address these challenges. He teaches global health ethics, several courses related to ethics in policy, and the third-year common core course ‘ethics, citizenship, and the examined life’.

Fan Liang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Media, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Fan Liang is an Assistant Professor of Media at Duke Kunshan University.

His research interests lie at the intersection of digital media, political communication, technology governance, and computational social science. His work recognizes that the modes of power have significantly shifted in the era of algorithms, big data, and social media. As such, we need to understand how, why and by whom power relations are transformed through new communication technologies, and how the new modalities of power can influence various actors and the operation of technologies. His research contributes to the ongoing debate about the political and social implications of technological change.
His research has received recognition and support from the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Volkswagen Foundation, the International Communication Association, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. His studies have appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Policy & Internet, Social Media + Society, International Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, Communication Research, and Journal of Communication.
Liang has a B.A. in public administration from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, an M.Sc. in political communication from the University of Glasgow, and a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Michigan. Before entering academia, he was a journalist in Chengdu, China.

Huansheng Cao, PhD

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Huansheng Cao is the Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Duke Kunshan University.

His research has three foci: (1) harmful algal blooms (HABs), (2) microbiomics, and (3) molecular systems biology. The HAB research aims to identify the functional genomic repertoire that drive bloom formation, and the interaction between functional repertoire and eutrophic conditions through multi-omics integration. Microbiomics aims to the understand the interactions among different group of microbial taxa in microbiomes of aquatic and soil environments, and the underlies genomic functional mechanisms. His current work centers on cyanobacterial bloom microbiomes and human gut microbiome (for example, gut microbiome transplantation and cancer microbiome). Molecular systems biology focuses on the structural decomposition and metabolic networks and development of integration of multi-omics data; this work will reveal how cellular life operates on a systems scale and provide the essential computational tools for analyzing multi-omics data.
He has authored over 40 research articles, book chapters, and reviews, and has had work published in the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics. One database of the common ecophysiology of cyanobacterial blooms has been developed for use in the water-bloom research community (http://47.92.225.177/CGDatabase).
Cao has a B.Sc. in biochemistry from Yantai University and a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from Fordham University. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he was an assistant research professor at Arizona State University and completed training in bioinformatics at Northern Illinois University and computational systems biology at the University of Georgia.

Jianbo Yue, Ph.D

Professor of Biology, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Yue is a Professor of Biology at Duke Kunshan University.

I graduated from Sichuan University with a BS degree in Biochemistry, Peking University with an MS degree in Genetics, and Pennsylvania State University with a Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology. After a postdoc training at Stanford University, I moved to the University of Hong Kong to start my independent academic career as an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology. I later joined the City University of Hong Kong as an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences before joining DKU as a professor in Biology. My laboratory studies autophagy, endosomal trafficking, metastasis, anticancer immunity, Ca2+, and reactive oxygen species (ROS). We have established a high-content drug screening platform and identified and/or synthesized many potent and specific modulators of autophagy or/and endosomal trafficking. We also established both cell and animal models to evaluate the ability of these compounds to modulate viral infection, tumor metastasis, and anticancer immunity. I founded two Biotech startup companies (6J Biotech and VBT Biotech), focusing on developing novel anti-metastatic or antiviral drugs, respectively.

Keping Wu, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Duke Kunshan University

Keping Wu is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University

Keping Wu is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University. She is interested in the qualitative and ethnographic research on old age care, mental health, religion, urbanization, and medical anthropology. Her publications can be found in Modern ChinaJournal of Asian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology, etc.

Lijing L. Yan, PhD, MPH

Professor, Duke University and Duke Kunshan University
Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research, Duke Kunshan University

Lijing L.Yan, PhD, MPH, is currently a Professor at the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University in the USA and the Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center of Duke Kunshan University in China since July 2014.

Lijing L. Yan, PhD, MPH, is currently a professor at the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University in the USA and the Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center of Duke Kunshan University in China since July 2014. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center and Director of the China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, a large network of 5 international academic institutions and 7 Chinese institutions dedicated to combat NCDs in China. She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Peking University, a Master of Public Health degree and a doctoral degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her main areas of research are chronic disease prevention and control (hypertension, heart disease, and stroke in particular), healthy aging, and innovation in translational health systems and services research and implementation science. She is the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on a number of NHLBI-funded and China-funded research grants. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed scientific papers some of which in leading medical journals such as JAMA, Lancet, Circulation, and BMJ. She also provides advices and consultancy to national and international organizations.

Linfeng Huang, PhD

Associate Professor of Biology, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Linfeng Huang is an Associate Professor of Biology at Duke Kunshan University.

Dr. Linfeng Huang is an Associate Professor of Biology at Duke Kunshan University. Dr. Huang got his PhD from John Innes Centre in the UK (2009) and did postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School in the USA. He has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong until Aug 2020. Dr. Huang’s research focuses on understanding RNA biology and developing RNA-based precision medicines. He has pioneered a biomanufacturing technology for producing highly efficient and specific siRNAs in bacterial cells. His lab uses a high-throughput RNAi screen to study the mechanisms of bacterial and viral infections.

Dr. Huang has published in leading scientific journals including Nature Biotechnology, Biotechnology, and Bioengineering, Science Advances, mBio, etc. His research is supported by grants from NSFC and major funding schemes in Hong Kong SAR and Shenzhen. He has received Kunshan Innovation Talent award (2021), the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2008), and Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Distinguished Research Award (2014). He is the founder of Xiaomo Biotech at Hong Kong Science Park.

Marius Wamsiedel, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Wamsiedel is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University.

Dr. Wamsiedel is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong (2016), M.A. from the University of Bucharest, and B.A. from the University of Arizona (2009, magna cum laude). A medical sociologist by training, Dr. Wamsiedel conducts research at the intersection among society, culture, and health. His works have examined the social categorization of patients, the structural and interpersonal barriers to health care, and the racial health inequities. He is currently working on a monograph about the moral evaluation of Emergency Room patients and a study of cultures of learning in international universities in China. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan University, Dr. Wamsiedel was a Lecturer in the Department of Health and Environmental Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2017-2022). Since 2020, he has been a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Meifang Chen, PhD, MPH, BSD, MCHES

Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Duke Kunshan University.

Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Duke Kunshan University. Dr. Chen has obtained her PhD in Health Promotion/Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, an MPH in Health Promotion, Education and Behavior from the University of South Carolina, and a B.S. in Nursing from Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University. Dr. Chen is a researcher and public health specialist with rich work experience in a wide range of public health context, including as an RN in a top-rank hospital in China, as a Health Educator II in the state health department, and as researcher/program evaluator/consultant for local and statewide health programs in the U.S. Dr. Chen’s research aims to respond to the global health challenges posed by chronic diseases and to promote holistic wellbeing through community-based lifestyle interventions, especially among underrepresented and underserved populations. Dr. Chen has supported and led a number of health research programs on various topics, including smoking cessation, obesity prevention, reproductive and sexual health, maternal and child health, and juvenile delinquency prevention. Her current research focuses on (1) using mixed methods to investigate lifespan risk factors of chronic diseases (e.g., obesity, diabetes, cancers), and (2) applying Geographic Information System modeling and mapping in public health to inform program and policy decision making and develop tailored health behavior change strategies, in order to prevent chronic diseases and reduce health disparities among populations. Before joining DKU, Dr. Chen was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at California State University, Los Angeles. She serves as a research mentor to both undergraduate and graduate students, and as committee member for graduate thesis projects.

Dr. Chen is a Mater Certified Health Education Specialist. She is an active member of the American Public Health Association, the Obesity Society, Society of Public Health Education, and National Association of Chronic Disease Directors. She also serves as peer reviewer for health journals.

Ming Gu, PhD

Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, Duke Kunshan University

Ming Gu is Assistant Professor of Applied Economics.

Ming Gu is Assistant Professor of Applied Economics. Dr. Gu’s primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of health economics, labor economics, and the economics of education. Her research centers on explaining socioeconomic disparities, understanding preference formation, identifying optimal economic behaviors for individuals and society, and understanding how policy can help achieve these ends. Dr. Gu has received Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan University, she has worked in economics consulting industry. Her pre-doctoral working experience includes Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University, and the Department of Economics and Social Affairs at the United Nations Headquarter.

Qian Long, MD, MPH, DMedSci

Associate Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University

Qian Long is an Associate Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University.

Qian Long is an Associate Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University. Dr. Long had medical and international health training in China and the Netherland. She completed her doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and had postdoctoral training at Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University and Duke Kunshan University. Her research interest and experience centers on health equity in relation to health systems development (with a focus on health financing and health services organization and delivery), including maternal and child health, tuberculosis control, and non-communicable diseases management in poor areas and among vulnerable groups of China and other low- and middle-income countries. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan University, she worked in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, based in Geneva for over two years.

Sajid Umar, DVM, M.Phil, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Global Health, Deputy Director of Emerging Infectious Diseases & One Health Research Program, Duke Kunshan University.

Dr. Sajid Umar is an infectious disease epidemiologist, an Assistant Professor of Global Health and a deputy director of Emerging Infectious Diseases & One Health Research program at Duke Kunshan University.

Sajid Umar is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University China. Dr. Umar is a deputy director of Emerging Infectious Diseases & One Health Research program. His research experience and expertise include epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases, particularly zoonotic diseases that occur at the human and animal interface. Over the years, he has gained considerable laboratory experience at BSL-1 to BSL-3 environments using serological and molecular diagnostic techniques and has worked extensively in multiple countries on epidemiological studies. His primary research interests are in identifying occupational diseases associated with respiratory viruses among persons with occupational contact with livestock, companion animals and poultry by using innovative sampling techniques. Furthermore, he works on the epidemiology and molecular detection of infectious viruses of human and animal origin (influenza viruses, parainfluenza, RSV, coronaviruses, enteroviruses, and adenoviruses etc.), antimicrobial resistance, monitoring zoonosis and reverse zoonosis events at interface of animals and vulnerable human populations who have intense contact with animal reservoirs. In addition to epidemiological research, he has a strong passion for global health and scientific research capacity building. This includes student trainings, the development of new collaborative international research networks and laboratory infrastructure to advance diagnostic approaches for the surveillance of viral respiratory pathogens in healthcare settings, livestock farms, schools, airports, and subways.

Shan Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Duke Kunshan University

Shan Wang is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke Kunshan University.

Shan Wang is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke Kunshan University whose research mainly lies in the subject area of cognitive psychology with focuses on (1) pain perception and communication and (2) the lifespan development of motor cognition. In prior to joining DKU, Shan received her PhD from the University of Bath, the UK, in 2017 and completed the research work at the Bath Pain Research Centre. On the completion of her PhD, Shan joined Oxford Brookes University, UK and conducted research on movement planning and coordination.

 

Shenglan Tang, MD, PhD, MPH, MSc

Co-Director of Global Health Program
Duke Kunshan University, China

Mary & James Semans Professor of Medicine
Department of Population Health Science, Duke Medical School

Research Professor of Global Health
Duke Global Health Institute, USA &
SingHealth-Duke-NUS-Global Health Institute, Singapore

Dr. Shenglan Tang is Co-Director of Global Health Program and Professor at Duke Kunshan University. He is Mary D.B.T. and James Semans Professor at Department of Population Health Science in the Duke University School of Medicine and Professor of Global Health at SingHealth-Duke-NUS Global Health Institute. Dr. Tang has more than 30 years of experience undertaking research on health systems reform, disease control and maternal and child health in China and other countries, and has provided consultancy services on health systems strengthening to many international organizations and governments of developing countries. In 2012, Tang came to Duke from the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), based in Geneva, where he was Unit Leader for TB/HIV and Health Systems. Before his assignment at WHO, Tang was a faculty member at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in UK, and School of Public Health of Fudan University (former Shanghai Medical University).

Shixin Xu, PhD

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Duke Kunshan University

Shixin Xu is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Duke Kunshan University.

Shixin Xu is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Duke Kunshan University. He got my PhD in computational mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013. Then he took postdocs in National University of Singapore, University of Notre Dame, University of California Riverside, and Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.  He joined Duke Kunshan University on August 2019.

His research interests are data-based and model-based method for diseases’ risks assessments,  neurovascular coupling, and complex fluid in biology.

Truls Østbye, MD, MPH, MBA, PhD, FFPH (UK)

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University

Secondary Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University

Professor, Health Services Research, Duke NUS Singapore

Dr. Truls Østbye is a chronic disease epidemiologist and public health researcher, has a special interest in obesity, diseases of the elderly and global health. His current research in the USA includes studies of: obesity in the workplace, in the postpartum period and in children, use of clinical preventive services, cognitive decline, doctor-patient communication, occupational health surveillance among health care workers and risk factors for suicide among former military service members.

In Singapore, his current research includes studies of: health and lifestyles of elderly Singaporeans, physical, mental and social facets of care giving for elderly Singaporeans, and evaluation of workplace health promotion programs.

His global health projects include several relating to emerging infectious diseases and health and illness among vulnerable worker populations in Sri Lanka.

And in the Philippines, with UP Diliman/ UP Manila, he is involved in several studies of the elderly and caregiving, as well as a study on the impact of covid on diabetes care.

He has authored over 600 peer reviewed papers in the medical and public health literature.

Xianzhi Lin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology, Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Xianzhi Lin is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Duke Kunshan University.

Dr. Lin’s research focus is RNA biology, with a particular interest in long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) biology. He has two main research directions: (1) To figure out functions and mechanisms of lncRNAs in physiology and pathology. The lncRNA of current interest is UCA1. (2) To develop RNA-centric methods for identification of lncRNA-binding partners. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include RNA biology, molecular biology and experimental methods in functional genomics.

Lin has a B.E. in biological engineering from Kunming University of Science and Technology and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He underwent postdoctoral training in RNA biology and cancer genomics at the University of California, Los Angeles and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he was a project scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Xiaochen Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Xiaochen Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at Duke Kunshan University.

Xiaochen Zhang received PhD in 2018 from the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. He also obtained a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Demography while pursuing my PhD. Prior to that, Xiaochen Zhang received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Shandong University, China in 2010 and an MS in Population, Resource and Environmental Economics from Fudan University, China in 2013.

Xiaochen Zhang was trained as an applied microeconomist. His primary research interests are regional & urban economics and various topics in demography (eg. migration, population aging). He’s also an affiliated researcher at the Environmental Research Center (ERC), Global Health Research Center (GHRC) and Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC) at DKU. His publications have appeared at Review of Regional Studies, Asian Transport Studies and Sustainability.

Xin Tong, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Computation and Design, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Xin Tong is an Assistant Professor of Computation and Design at Duke Kunshan University.

Dr. Xin Tong joined Duke Kunshan University (DKU) as an Assistant Professor in Computation and Design in October, 2021. She is also a researcher at the Global Health Research Center. Prior to coming to DKU, she was a postdoc fellow affiliated with the Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab at Stanford University. Dr. Tong has taught undergraduate and graduate courses, including games, VR, human-computer interaction (HCI) related courses. Previously, Dr. Tong was a member of the Pain Studies Lab, and she received her Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. Xin’s research contributes to the larger understanding of how people with physical and psychological disabilities experience and interact with technology. Her work largely centers on understanding, designing, developing, and evaluating interactive systems, such as games and VR environments. She deeply embeds a design-thinking approach, working in partnership with clinicians, caregivers, and patients frequently to solve their problems and reach their goals through a user-centered framework in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method studies.

Dr. Tong has published in many top academic conferences and journals on HCI, VR, games, and embodied interface technologies. She is the recipient of Bill Buxton Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in HCI, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Best Game Awards and Nominations at ACM CHI and Microsoft Unite Conference. She is also a recipient of many national and university fellowships and awards, such as SFU Provost Prize of Distinction Award, C.D. Nelson Memorial Scholarship, MITACS Research Training Award, SFU Big Data Graduate Scholarship, McQuarrie Chronic Pain Scholarship, and NSERC Post-doc Fellowship.

Assistant Professor of Sustainability Studies, Duke Kunshan University

Yang’s research applies behavioral decision science to characterizing and communicating scientific results to inform risk-related decisions. More recently, she has been working on risk communication to better inform public health decisions, while her previous research focused on risk communication on advanced energy technologies. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include health communication and decision making.

She received her Ph.D. degree (2017-21) from the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also served as a postdoctoral research associate (2022). She received her M.S. in nuclear engineering and B.A. in English literature and journalism from Tsinghua University.

Yu Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Yu Wang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University.

Dr. Yu Wang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University. She received her BS and MS in Sociology from Renmin University and her MS and PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017). Her research focuses on the role of intermarriage and individual achievement as pathways to social mobility, and work and family conflicts in China. A second line of her research focuses on sexuality and reproductive behavior in the US. Her current projects are about the interaction between demographic changes and assortative mating in contemporary China and work-family conflicts. Her articles have appeared in journals, such as Research in Social Stratification and MobilitySocial Science Research, American Journal of Public Health, and Contraception.

Yunguo Liu, MD, MPH

Co-Director of Global Health Program, Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University

Dr Yunguo Liu is currently the Co-Director and Professor of Global Health Program, Duke Kunshan University in China, and the Adjunct Professor of Global Health in Duke University of USA.

Dr Liu started his professional career in health from Mid 1970s when he worked as a village doctor (called Barefoot Doctor then) engaged in primary health care in Chinese countryside. From 1988 he worked in the Ministry of Health, the People’s Republic of China, on health policy, national health program management and study in health equity.

From 2008 to 2020 Dr Liu worked in the World Health Organization as WHO Representative in Lao PDR, Cambodia and South Pacific (based in Fiji), and as the Director of Program Management Division of WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific based in Manila.

Dr Liu received MD and MSc degrees in Tongji Medical University of China, and MPH in the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley.