A breakthrough study led by Professor Lijing Yan from the Global Health Research Center at Duke Kunshan University, in collaboration with the Chronic Disease Center at the Chinese CDC, was published in The Lancet Regional Health—Western Pacific. The study represents the first national-level assessment of the effect of implementations in the National Demonstration Areas for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases on residents’ health behaviors.

Dr. Ming Gu, Assistant Professor at Duke Kunshan University’s Global Health Research Center and Social Sciences Division, recently published a study in SSM – Population Health titled The Power of the Family in Times of Pandemic: Cross-Country Evidence from 93 Countries.

Professor Qian Long has been recognized for her significant contribution to the project titled “Development and Application of a Comprehensive Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Model Based on the Integration of Medical and Preventive Care”, which was awarded third prize in the “2023 Chinese Preventive Medicine Association (CPMA) Science and Technology Award”.

Spanning the summers of 2022 and 2023, Semin Kim (UG, Class of 2024), from the Molecular Bioscience major, and her team collected 200 nasopharyngeal swab samples from cats at nine local animal clinics in Kunshan, China. This study represents the first molecular epidemiology and phylogenetic analysis of feline calicivirus (FCV) in the region. Their findings have recently been published in BMC Virology Journal, one of the top journals in the field.

A recently published article in the Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses by Dr. Sajid Umar, Visiting Assistant Professor, and his One Health team at the DKU Global Health Research Center provides new evidence of reverse zoonosis.