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  • xzheng@pku.edu.cn

ZHENG Xiaoying

Professor, Institute for Global Health and Development and Institute of Population Research

Research Field: Population Health in Life Course, Gerontology and Gerontology, Disability Prevention and Rehabitation

ZHENG Xiaoying,  Professor, Institute for Global Health and Development and Institute of Population Research, Peking University. The Boya Distinguished Professor, PhD supervisor and Dean of PKU-APEC Health Science Academy (HeSAY). Her research covers a wide range of issues on Population Health in Life Course, Gerontology and Gerontology,disability prevention and rehabilitation of aging population. Dr. Zheng was the gainer of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Distinguished Professor of National Yang Zi Excellent Scholar Program and the Chief Scientist of National Key 973 Projects for two terms. Based on interdisciplinary research that integrates population, environment, health, society and economy of China, she has made a series of interdisciplinary academic achievements in the field of population health and social-economic development in China, which were published in The Lancet, BMJ, WHO Bulletin, AJPH, Chinese Journal of Epidemiology and Chinese Health Economics et.al. She was granted the Contribution Award of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Development of China. With contribution to the population health and social development in poor areas of China, she was granted the TWAS-Celso Furtado Prize by the The World Academy of Sciences (UN TWAS) in 2015. Dr. Zheng is currently the member of the CAST UN Consultative Committee on Life Science and Human Health (CCLH), the Chinese representative of the UN Washington Group on Disability, the vice director of the China Association of Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons (CARD), the vice chairman of the China Disability Research Society (CDRS), the group leader of the Expert Technical Group of the National Action Plan on Disability Prevention, and the chief member of the Professional Committee on Disability Prevention and Control of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association. In 2016, she was elected as the Fellow of TWAS.