Personal profile

Currently, Dr XU Ming is a research professor and Ph.D. supervisor,  Dean of the Department of Global Health of the School of Public Health, and Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Health and Development of Peking University. He has very rich work experience in international development cooperation, and the development of the healthcare industry. He was the Head of the Department for Emerging Economies and previously the Senior Political Advisor for External Relations at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Switzerland. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products. Earlier, he served in the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission and the Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Korea. When working with the Global Fund, his focus was mainly on the prevention and control of major infectious diseases in the implementing countries, health financing and building up collaborations with emerging economies in the health field. He currently serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) of the Pandemic Fund and the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Local Production and Technology Transfer of Health Products. He has served as vice president, director and executive member of several academic associations, including China Health Economics Association, the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, and China Association of Medical Equipment.

He got a Ph.D. in industrial economics from Fudan University and completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University. He has written more than one hundred papers and articles in journals and specialized publications.

Main research areas

Internationalization of China’s health industry

International financing for health

Cross-border prevention and control of infectious diseases

Representative publications

1. Ming Xu*, Christoph Benn, Simon Reid- Henry, Tim Brown, Shuduo Zhou, Jian Yang, Ying Chen, Zhebin Wang. Rethinking International financing for health to better respond to future pandemics. BMJ Global Health, 12 November 2023. https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/11/e012988

2. Ming Xu*, Yunxuan Hu, Shenning Lu, Muhammad Abdullahi Idris, Shuduo Zhou, Jian Yang, Xiangning Feng, Yangmu Huang, Xian Xu, Ying Chen, Duoquan Wang. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Africa and China's upgraded role as a contributor: scoping review. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-023-01115-x

3. Ming Xu*, Li Zhang, Xiangning Feng, Zhenyu Zhang, Yangmu Huang. Regulatory Reliance for Convergence and Harmonization in the Medical Device Space in Asia-Pacific. BMJ Global Health, 19 August 2022, Volume 7 -Issue 8. https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e009798

4. Yunxuan Hu, Zhebin Wang, Shuduo Zhou, Jian Yang, Ying Chen, Yumeng Wang, Ming Xu*. Redefining Debt-to-Health, a triple-win health financing instrument in global health. Globalization and Health, 6 May 2024. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-024-01043-x

5. Jian Yang, Jiabin Xu, Christoph Benn, Xiaoyi Yu, Ying Chen, Shuduo Zhou, Zhongfei Pei, Yunxuan Hu, Ming Xu*. Evaluation of integration in WHO’s tuberculosis, HIV, and antimicrobial resistance policies through the social-ecological lens. Globalization and Health (2025) 21:53, September 2025. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-025-01150-3

6. Ying Chen, Shuduo Zhou, Zhongfei Pei, Weili Zhao, Jian Yang, Yunxuan Hu, Xiangning Feng, Ming Xu*. Factors associated with the export of traditional Chinese medicinal products: A stochastic frontier analysis. PLoS One 20(7): e0326422(2025). https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pone.0326422

7. Jian Yang, Shuduo Zhou, Xiangning Feng, Ying Chen, Yunxuan Hu, Ming Xu*. Evolving market-shaping strategies to boost access to essential medical products in developing countries with HIV self-testing as a case study. Global Health Research and Policy, 14 July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-023-00310-5

8. Tianen Yao, Xinyu Yang, Huaixiao Ye, Yida Wang, Xiaoyi Yu, Yuxin Huang, Ming Xu*. Spatiotemporal patterns and climate-induced macroeconomic burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Public Health (2025) 25:1975, 29 May 2025. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23190-5

9. Zhebin Wang, Yida Wang, Yuxin Huang, Shuduo Zhou, Jian Yang, Ying Chen, Zhongfei Pei, Yunxuan Hu, Ming Xu*. Enhancing the role of innovative financing in global health. Globalization Health Research and Policy (2025)10:61, November 2025. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-025-00463-5

10. Jian Yang, Shuduo Zhou, Xiangning Feng, Ying Chen, Yunxuan Hu, Ming Xu*. Understanding the Effects of Iatrogenic Management on Population Health: A Medical Innovation Perspective, China CDC Weekly 2023; ISSN 2096-3101 (Online), CN 10-1629/R1,Vol. 5 No. 27 Jul. 7, 2023. https://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/doi/10.46234/ccdcw2023.118.

Recent book

Chief compiler, Introduction to public health security, Tsinghua University Press, 2024.