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Faculty

Haijun Wang

Haijun Wang

Haijun Wang

  • Professor, Ph.D
  • whjun1@bjmu.edu.cn
  • Xueyuan Road 38, Haidian District, Beijing, China
  • Peking University
Personal profile

Professor Hai-Jun Wang is the Vice Dean of School of Public Health, Chair of Department of Maternal and Child Health in School of Public Health, Peking University. She is also the Chairman of Branch of Maternal and Child Health Standards, National Health Standards Committee; the Chairman of Obesity Prevention and Control Committee, Chinese Association for Student Nutrition & Health Promotion; the Vice Chairman of Branch of Early Life Development and Disease Prevention, Chinese Preventive Medicine Association; the Vice Chairman of Branch of Maternal and Child Health Care Information, Chinese Health Information and Big Data Association.

She graduated from Beijing Medical University with the Bachelor degree of preventive medicine in 1995 and got Ph.D. degree in School of Public Health of Peking University in 2004. She has been working in School of Public Health, Peking University since 2004. She had been the visiting scholar in University of Marburg (Germany), Duisburg-Essen University (Germany), University of Queensland (Australia), Duke University (USA), John Hopkins University (USA), respectively.

She has undertaken many projects as a Principal Investigator in China, sponsored by National Key R&D Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Special Fund for Public Welfare of Health, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, China Medical Board, United Nations Population Fund, etc.

She has published 166 academic papers as the first or corresponding author (90 papers in international journals), 7 books as editor-in-chief, and applied 2 utility model patent.

She has been awarded “the First Award of Scientific and technological Progress of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association”, “Song Qing-Ling Pediatric Medicine Award”, “the Third Award of Scientific and technological Progress of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association”, “the Third Award of Scientific and technological Progress in Beijing” as a principal participant.

 

Main research directions

Her research interests include child growth and development, obesity epidemiology, environmental factors associated with maternal and child health. She conducted studies on genetic and environmental risk factors, prevention and control technology for childhood obesity and metabolic disorders, preterm birth, gestational diabetes and hypertension, gestational hypertension, etc.

 

 

Representative scientific research projects

 1. 2021   Development and validation of risk prediction model for gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia based on maternal and child health big data, funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

2. 2020-2023  Impact of prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on childhood obesity and its mechanism: a birth cohort study, funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

3. 2020-2022  Epidemiological methods and experiences in research on child and adolescent health, funded by Sino-German Centre for Research Promotion.

4. 2019-2021  The 2nd national youth reproductive health survey in China, funded by United Nations Population Fund.

5. 2016-2020  Development and evaluation of school-based intervention for childhood overweight and obesity, funded by National Key R&D Program of China.

6. 2016-2019   Population study on the effects of BDNF-SH2B1-MAPK pathway genes and dietary behavior on childhood obesity and functional studies, funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

7. 2016   Development of protocol and pilot study on preventing and controlling students’ common diseases and monitoring health risk factors, funded by National Health and Family Planning Commission.

8. 2012-2015    School-based environmental policy intervention for obesity in children, funded by China Medical Board.

9. 2012-2015    Study on the role and mechanism of candidate genes of childhood obesity based on the INSIG-SCAP-SREBP pathway, National Natural Science Foundation of China, funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

10. 2012-2014    Development and application of technologies and criteria for preventing and controlling major diseases of students (Project unit 3), funded by the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Health of China.

 


10 representative papers

1. Liu Z, Gao P, Gao AY, Lin Y, Feng XX, Zhang F, Xu LQ, Niu WY, Fang H, Zhou S, Li WH, Yuan JH, Xu CX, Wu N, Li HJ, Wen LM, Patton G, Wang HJ*, Wu YF. Effectiveness of a Multifaceted Intervention for Prevention of Obesity in Primary School Children in China: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatrics. 2022 Jan 1;176(1):e214375. (IF=16.193)

2. Wang YY, Li Q, Guo Y, Zhou H, Wang X, Wang Q, Shen H, Zhang Y, Yan D, Zhang Y, Zhang H, Li S, Chen G, Zhao J, He Y, Yang Y, Xu J, Wang Y, Peng Z, Wang HJ*, Ma X*. Association of Long-term Exposure to Airborne Particulate Matter of 1 μm or Less With Preterm Birth in China. JAMA Pediatr. 2018, 172(3):e174872. (IF=12.004)

3. Li Q, Wang YY, Guo Y#, Zhou H, Wang X, Wang QM, Shen HP, Zhang YP, Yan DH, Li S, Chen G, Lin L, He Y, Yang Y, Peng ZQ, Wang HJ*, Ma X*. Folic Acid Supplementation and the Association between Maternal Airborne Particulate Matter Exposure and Preterm Delivery: A National Birth Cohort Study in China. Environ Health Perspect. 2020 Dec;128(12):127010. (IF=9.031)

4. Wang YY, Li Q, Guo Y, Zhou H, Wang QM, Shen HP, Zhang YP, Yan DH, Li S, Chen G, Zhou S, He Y, Yang Y, Peng ZQ, Wang HJ*, Ma X*. Ambient temperature and the risk of preterm birth: A national birth cohort study in the mainland China. Environ Int. 2020 Sep;142:105851. (IF=9.621)

5. Lin L, Li Q, Yang J, Han N, Chen G, Jin C, Xu X, Liu Z, Liu J, Luo S, Raat H, Guo Y, Wang H*. The associations of residental greenness with fetal growth in utero and birth weight: a birth cohort study in Beijing, China. Environ Int. 2020 May 14;141:105793. (IF=9.621)

6. Zhao Y, Bao H, Ma L, Song B, Di J, Wang L, Gao Y, Ren W, Wang S, Wang HJ*, Wu J*. Real-world effectiveness of primary screening with high-risk human papillomavirus testing in the cervical cancer screening programme in China: a nationwide, population-based study. BMC Med. 2021 Jul 15;19(1):164. (IF=8.775)

7. Zhou S, Lin LZ, Bao Z, Meng T, Wang SS, Chen GB, Li Q, Liu Z, Bao HL, Han N, Wang HJ*, Guo YM. The association of prenatal exposure to particulate matter with infant growth: A birth cohort study in Beijing, China. Environmental Pollution. 2021 May 15;277:116792. (IF=8.071)

8. Liu Z, Xu HM, Wen LM, Peng YZ, Lin LZ, Zhou S, Li WH, Wang HJ*. A systematic review and meta-analysis of the overall effects of school-based obesity prevention interventions and effect differences by intervention components.Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2019 Oct 29;16(1):95. (IF=6.714)

9. Peng Y, Han N, Su T, Zhou S, Bao H, Ji Y, Luo S, Liu J*, Wang HJ*. Gestational weight gain and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A latent class trajectory analysis using birth cohort data. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2021 Dec;182:109130. (IF=5.602)

10. Song Q, Huang T, Song J, Meng X, Li C, Wang Y, Wang H*. Causal Associations of Body Mass Index and Waist-to-Hip Ratio with Cardiometabolic Traits among Chinese Children: a Mendelian Randomization Study.Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2020;30(9):1554-1563. (IF=4.222)