Leadership

Chenkai Wu, MSc, MPH, Ph.D

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

Dr. Wu’s interdisciplinary research focuses on improving health among older adults in three areas: (1) assessment, epidemiology, and clinical implications of frailty; (2) epidemiology and prevention of sarcopenia; and (3) promoting healthy aging by refining measurement tools and identifying novel biological, social, and environmental markers.

He has published 96 peer-reviewed papers (61 as first or senior author), secured 27 grants, contributed to three book chapters, and led two symposium sessions and 36 oral presentations. He served as an editorial board member for five journals, a guest editor for two special issues, and a reviewer for 45 journals. In 2022, Elsevier listed him in the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” (single-year achievement category). As a site PI of a National Key Research and Development Program, he helped establish a demonstration area to prevent and treat sarcopenia in the eastern region of China and assisted in formulating the guidelines for the diagnosis and intervention of sarcopenia.

Dr. Wu has a B.S. degree in Psychology from Zhejiang University and later obtained an 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. Before joining DKU, he was a faculty member at New York Medical College.

Kaikai Yang

Assistant Director of Global Health Program, Duke Kunshan University

Kaikai Yang is the Assistant Director for Global Health Program.

Her responsibilities in this capacity include providing leadership and coordination to support the Global Health Research Center and the MSc-GH program, leading and supervising the administrative team to support faculty and researchers in education, training, and research projects, and contributing to the efficient management of program operation and finance in collaboration with relevant units of Duke Kunshan University and partners.

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).

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.