Based on data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a team led by Assistant Professor Chenkai Wu and Professor Lijing Yan from the Global Health Research Center at Duke Kunshan University has published a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association in which they found that genetic susceptibility and social environment interplay in the development of MI in middle-aged and older adults.

A commentary co-authored by three professors at DKU Global Health Research Center was published in December on the Lancet Regional Health – West Pacific, addressing the challenges and opportunities of global health education in Chinese universities.

A case study on China’s National Basic Public Health Services Program (NBPHSP) led by Prof. Qian Long and Prof. Yunguo Liu has been published jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).