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Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

The department of epidemiology and biostatistics was approved by the ministry of education as a key disciplines of universities and colleges in 2002. In the following year, the key laboratory of the Ministry of Education was established as well. The current chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics is professor Siyan Zhan.

The main research fields include: Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, Nutritional Epidemiology, Reproductive/Perinatal Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology, Systemic Epidemiology, Pharmacological Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-based Medicine, Methods in Biostatistics, Drug Abuse Prevention and Control.

From 2010 to 2019, the group has undertaken more than 200 projects which were supported by national natural science foundation of China, Chinese National Programs for Science and Technology Development, Beijing natural science foundation and international cooperation, with a total scientific research fund of over 90 million yuan. In the past three years, 355 research papers have been published including 169 SCI papers of which 21 papers has a impact factor more than 10. The team of teachers edited and participated in the compilation of more than 90 books, including the national planning materials “epidemiology”, stereoscopic teaching materials, reference materials and various branches teaching materials.


Staff

At present, there are 29 faculty members. Among them, there are 11 professors, 8 associate professors (associate researchers and associate chief technicians) and 10 lecturers (chief technicians).

Siyan Zhan: professor, dean

Research fields: pharmacological epidemiology, clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine

Liming Li: distinguished professor of boya and member of international Eurasian academy of sciences

Research fields: epidemiology of chronic diseases, epidemiology of geriatric health care, systematic epidemiology, big data research and application

Yonghua Hu: professor

Research fields: epidemiology of chronic diseases, genetic epidemiology

Weihua Cao: professor

Research fields: epidemiology of chronic diseases, epidemiology of AIDS

Min Liu: professor

Research fields: epidemiology of infectious diseases, reproductive health

Yangfeng Wu: professor

Research fields: cardiovascular epidemiology, clinical epidemiology

Dafang Chen: professor

Research fields: molecular epidemiology

Jun Lv: professor, deputy director of the department

Research fields: epidemiology of chronic diseases, research on disease prevention strategies and measures, environmental epidemiology

Tao Wu: professor, deputy director of the department

Research fields: genetic epidemiology, epidemiology of chronic diseases

Pei Gao: assistant professor, Ten-thousand Talents Program

Research fields: big data analysis, medical and health statistics application

Tao Huang: assistant professor

Research fields: nutritional epidemiology, genetic epidemiology

Hongyuan Wang: associate researcher

Research fields: data analysis and clinical trial design

Kai Li: associate professor

Research fields: biomedicine information statistics and processing

Tao Wang: associate professor

Research fields: tumor etiology and prevention

Wenjing Gao: associate professor

Research fields: twin studies, epidemiology of chronic diseases

Feng Sun: associate professor

Research fields: pharmacological epidemiology, clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine

Canqing Yu: associate professor

Research fields: epidemiology of chronic diseases, epidemiology and data science

Tang Xun: associate professor

Research fields: epidemiology of chronic diseases, genetic epidemiology

Jin Li: deputy chief technician

Research fields: molecular epidemiology

Lectures (in-charge technician) :

Zheng yingdong, Yi weining, He pingping, Qin xueying, Wu yiqun, Wang shengfeng, Liu jue, Hu runhua, Gao jing, Liao chunxiao



Teaching

In the past three years, the team has taught 6 to 8 undergraduate students in preventive medicine every year. 20 to 25 graduate students/year; Currently, there are 88 graduate students. Among them, 8 master's degree holders, 32 master's degree holders, 25 doctor's degree holders, 17 master's degree holders (MPH) and 6 doctor's degree holders (Dr.PH). Since the establishment of the department, the teaching team has cultivated more than 450 students with master's degree, more than 100 students with master's degree in public health (MPH) and more than 200 students with doctor's degree. Most of the graduates worked on the front lines of the public health system and have become the backbone of the public health field.    

Undergraduate courses: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Epidemiological Basis (bilingual teaching), Introduction to Infection and Health, etc  

Graduate courses: Epidemiological Research Methods, Multivariate Statistics, Medical Software Packages in the Application of Epidemiological Studies, Genetic Epidemiology, Elderly Health Care Epidemiology, Epidemiological Research Progress, New Emergent Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Drug Epidemiology, Medical Scientific Research Design, Data Mining on Medical Research, Theory and Practice of Chinese Public Health, etc

Quality courses: undergraduate course "Epidemiological Basis": in 2017, it was selected as the national quality online course by the ministry of education

Graduate course “Epidemiological Research Methods (Ⅰ) “: the 2018 Excellent Course for Medical Graduate Students



Scientific research

The department of epidemiology and biostatistics is hosting and participating in 53 scientific research projects, including 1 major research project of national natural science foundation of China, 2 major research program cultivation projects of national natural science foundation of China, 12 projects of national natural science foundation of China, 7 special funds of ministry of science and technology, and 3 major projects of Beijing natural science foundation of China. In the past five years, the company has won 6 national science and technology achievement awards and 4 municipal science and technology achievement awards.