Our People

Yangfeng is the Principle Investigator at The China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention at The George Institute for Global Health, China. Yangfeng is the Executive Director of the Peking University Clinical Research Institute and Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Peking University School of Public Health. Yangfeng is a leading authority on cardiovascular disease in China and has previously held senior positions at the Cardiovascular Institute, Fu Wai Hospital, and the WHO Collaboration Center in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Control and Research in Beijing. 

Lijing is the Director of The China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention at The George Institute for Global Health, China. She is a cardiovascular epidemiologist with a background in demography and health economics. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, and the Health Economics and Management Institute, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing. Lijing has worked extensively in the areas of chronic disease prevention and control, economic evaluations in health care, and integrated health management. She is also the principal investigator or co-investigator on several research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, USA, the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, and the Ford Foundation.

Polly joined The George Institute for Global Health, China in April of 2010 and currently assists with the administration of The China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and the R&D division.

Xin is a project consultant of The George Institute for Global Health, China. She is the study director for the Clinical Pathway for Acute Coronary Syndromes in China (CPACS) phases 2 and 3. Xin is also a cardiologist in Anzhen hospital, one of the two largest cardiovascular hospitals in Beijing. She has acted as secretary of The Great Wall Congress of Cardiology, the most influential cardiac congress in China.

Jicheng is an Associate Professor in at the Peking University Institute of Nephrology, and is a Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health, China. Jicheng has extensive experience in clinical research and studies on kidney disease. He has set up a large IgA nephropathy database in China with more than 2000 patients. He has completed several clinical trials in IgA nephropathy in China, and acts as the study physician for a large international study of IgA nephropathy called the TESTING study. Over the past several years, Jicheng has published more than twenty papers in international journals such as The Lancet and Nature Genetics.

Puhong is an Associate Professor and currently works as a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of Diabetes Research Program at the George Institute for Global Health, China. Before joining The George Institute, he worked on Non-communicable Disease (NCD) and Community Health with the China CDC from 2008 to 2010, taking charge of the office of National Action on Healthy Lifestyle for All, a sub-division of NCD intervention. Puhong has worked with the Beijing Management Center of Community Health Service as the Director of the Department of Quality Control in community health services in Beijing. He has also worked as the Vice Director of NCD division on NCD control and prevention at the Beijing CDC and was responsible for NCD surveillance systems and family healthcare intervention.

Shenshen is a Research Fellow in the Research and Development Division of The George Institute for Global Health, China. She received her Bachelor’s degree study at Peking University Health Science Center in preventive medicine. Shenshen then received her Master degree of International Health in the Department of Women and Children’s Health in Uppsala University in Sweden, and joined The George Institute, China in 2006. Her major research interest is in cardiovascular diseases. Over her five years at The George Institute, she had worked on several of our projects including: APCSC, OAC, SAFETRIPS, China Clinical Control of Dyslipidemia, Simplified Treatment for Hypertension in Plateau in Tibet and the CVD package study. Shenshen  is currently working as project manager on the Clinical Pathway for Acute Coronary Syndromes in China (CPACS) Phase 3.

Maoyi joined our team in June of 2011 and is currently working on the China Rural Health Initiative Economic Evaluation (CRHI EE) and the Simplified Cardiovascular Management (SimCard) studies. Maoyi received his Bachelor of Electronic Engineering with Business Management from the University of York and his MSc of Biomedical Engineering from University of Oxford. Maoyi graduated with his PhD of Biomechanical Engineering from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. His research interests include health-related engineering, impact injuries, and biomedical engineering.

Jing is a research fellow at the George Institute for Global Health, China and is currently working on the salt reduction arm of China Rural Health Initiative. Jing received his Bachelor of Preventive Medicine from Capital University of Medical Science and his Master of Epidemiology and Health Statistics from China Medical University. He has worked with the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institution of Chronic Non-communicable Disease Prevention. His research interests include standardized management of diabetes in the community and self-management of hypertension in communities.

Nicole has a medical degree and a PhD in public health research. Her research interests include: nutrition and lifestyle interventions for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases; impact modeling and evaluation for different intervention strategies and health policy reforms on cardiovascular disease burden; interventions looking at bridging evidence-practice gap in cardiovascular disease risk managements; and health advocacy.  Nicole was awarded a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship from the United States in 2009 and took up this fellowship at The George Institute, China for one year in July 2009.  In 2010, she was awarded a NHMRC Australian-China Exchange Fellowship, which enables her to continue her work at The George Institute, China office for an additional two years.   Nicole is due to leave The George Institute, China in November 2012 and continue her post-doctoral studies with The George Institute, Australia.

Tingming is an Assistant Professor of preventive medicine at the Department of Clinical Medicine of Ankang Vocational Technical College in Shaanxi Province. Tingming is now a domestic visiting scholar at the Peking University Health Science Center and The George Institute for Global Health, China with a focus on prevention and management of chronic non-communicable diseases.

Danielle recently received her Master of International Public Health from The School of Public Health at The University of Sydney in Australia. Originally from the United States, she received her Bachelor in Biological Anthropology with a Minor in history. She joined The George Institute for Global Health, Australia in November 2010 in the Marketing and Communications department and led the Institute into the world of social media. She is currently working at The George Institute for Global Health, China in both Marketing and Communications and as a Visiting Research Fellow with the R&D division and The China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention.

Jesse Hao is the project manager of the CRHI and CPACS-2 studies. She has been working with The George institute for Global Health, China for four years. Jesse received her Master’s degree from Southeast University Medical College and in 2009 won the Chalmers Achievement Award.