Leadership

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.

Qian Long, MD, MPH, DMedSci

Associate Professor of Global Health and Director of Graduate Studies for MSc-Global Health Program, 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.

Shenglan Tang, MD, PhD, MPH, MSc

Director of Global Health Program and Professor, Duke Kunshan University
Mary D.B.T and James Semans Professor, Duke University School of Medicine
Professor, Duke Global Health Institute, SingHealth-Duke-NUS

Dr. Shenglan Tang is 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

Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University

Dr Yunguo Liu is currently a Professor of Global Health at the 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.