Lijing L. Yan, PhD, MPH, Professor (with tenure) of Global Health and Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University. She is also currently adjunct professor at Peking University Institute for Global Health and Development and School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, USA, and the Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Previously, she was the Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Science in Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University, the Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center, and Director of the China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, a large network of 5 international academic institutions and 7 Chinese institutions dedicated to combat NCDs in China.

She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Peking University, a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology and a doctoral degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her main areas of research are primary-care and community-based chronic disease prevention and control (hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and diabetes in particular), healthy aging, digital health innovation and implementation science. She is the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on over 20 US NIH and UK MRC-funded and China-funded research grants, totaling over 10 million US dollars. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers some of which in leading medical journals such as JAMA, the Lancet, NEJM, BMJ, and Circulation. Her Google Scholar H-index is 59 and i10-index 123, total citations 75K (as of June 2024). She is the former secretary general of the China Consortium of Universities for Global Health, and the current standing council member of the Global Health Society and the NCD Prevention and Control Society of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association. She also provides advice and consultancy to national and international organizations such as the China National Health Commission, World Health Organization, World Heart Federation, and the US NIH Fogarty Global Health Training Programs and the US NIH NHLBI Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science Research Programs.