Zheng Xie

Associate Professor
Xiezheng@bjmu.edu.cn
Xueyuan Road 38, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Peking University

Personal profile

Dr. XIE Zheng, deputy director of Department of Global Health, has held a position at School of Public Health, Peking University since 2007. She was seconded to WHO Department of Ageing and Life Course as technical officer from June 2018 to June 2019. She has published widely in both English and Chinese on peer-reviewed journals. She has authored more than 70 papers (including 35 first author or corresponding author) and 3 books. She acted as Principle Investigator of various projects funded by China National Science Foundation, Ministry of Education, China Medical Board and National Health Commission. As key participants, she was deeply involved in the DFID Global Health Support Programme (GHSP), China-Australia Integrated Health and HIV/AIDS Programme and China-UK Health Support Programme. Dr. Xie represented China to attend the consultations of WHO’s Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA). She was a member of WHO Working Group on Reform representing Western Pacific Region.

She also holds the following membership of academic associations:

Member of Global Health Branch of Chinese Preventive Medical Association; Youth Member of Social Medicine Branch of Chinese Preventive Medical Association; Youth Member of Health Management Branch of Chinese Preventive Medical Association; Member of Medical Security Committee of Chinese Social Security Society; Member of Health Management Branch of Beijing Medical Association.

Teaching courses:

Social medicine (undergraduate and graduate students), global health governance (graduate students), organisational behavior (graduate students), health project management (graduate students).

Working experience:

2018/06-2019/06, WHO (headquarter) Department of Ageing and Life Course

2012/06 until now, Department of Global Health, Peking University School of Public Health

2007/06-2012/10, Department of Health Policy and Management, Peking University School of Public Health

Education:

2011/09-2012/07, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, MSc in International Public Health.

1997/09-2007/07, Peking University, Department of Sociology, Ph.D. in Sociology

Main research directions

1. Global health governance, with a focus on the governance and management mechanism of global health actors, including WHO’s engagement with non-State Actors and WHO governance reform.

2. Health development assistance, with a focus on the management mechanism of international health development assistance, the evaluation of China’s health aid projects, the evaluation of international health assistance projects in China.

3. Health policy and system, with a focus on the organisation and provide of health services and health seeking behavior.

Representative scientific research projects

Project	Funded by
Evaluation of the impact of voucher scheme on health services utilisation in rural China	National Science Foundation
The diffusion of Hospital Information System using a mutual-construction perspective	Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Fund
The application of qualitative method in health service researches	Young Talents Project of Beijing Education Commission
WHO governance reform	National Health Commission
The strategy of China’s participation in global malaria elimination	National Health Commission
Research on the performance evaluation system of China Medical Team	National Health Commission
Comparative research on health system responding to ageing societies in China, Japan and Korea	National Health Commission
Research on current situation and incentive mechanism of village doctors in China	Chinese Red Cross Foundation
Research on China’s county hospital reform	China Medical Board
Qualitative research on factors influencing the uptake of influenza vaccination among older population in Beijing	Beijing CDC Sanofi Pasteur
The effect of influenza vaccination among older population in Beijing using big data analysis	Beijing CDC Sanofi Pasteur
Training course of Global Health Diplomacy and Governance	Beijing Health Commission
The Thirteenth Five-Year Health Development Plan in Shunyi District of Beijing	Beijing Shunyi District Health Commission
Policy research on health development in Shunyi District of Beijing for the Thirteen Five-year Plan	Beijing Shunyi District Health Commission

10 representative papers

1. XIE Zheng, Adrienne POON, WU Zhijun, JIAN Weiyan, Is occupation a good predictor of self-rated health in China? PLOS One. 2015.

2. XIE Zheng, LIN Haijiang, FANG Renfei, SHEN Weiwei, LI Shuguang, CHEN Bo. Effects of a fruit-vegetable dietary pattern on oxidative stress and genetic damage in coke oven workers: a cross-sectional study. BMC Environment Health. 2015,14:40.

3. LV Min, FANG Renfei, WU Jiang, PANG Xinghuo, DENG Ying, XIE Zheng*. The free vaccination policy of influenza in Beijing, China: The vaccine coverage and its associated factors. Vaccine. 2016,34(18).

4. LI Tongtong, LEI Trudy, XIE Zheng*, ZHANG Tuohong. Determinants of basic public health services provision by village doctors in China: using non-communicable diseases management as an example. BMC Health Services Research.2016,16:42.

5. LI Tongtong, LV Min, WU Jiang, PANG Xinghuo, DENG Ying, XIE Zheng*. Who benefits most from influenza vaccination policy: a study among the elderly in Beijing, China. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2016,15:45.

6. Li T, Lei T, Sun F, XIE Zheng*. Determinants of village doctors' job satisfaction under China's health sector reform: a cross-sectional mixed methods study. Int J Equity Health. 2017;16(1):64. Published 2017 Apr 18. doi:10.1186/s12939-017-0560-8

7. Bang Zheng, Xiao-jing Liu, Yue-qian Fiona Sun, Jia-zeng Su, Yang Zhao, Zheng Xie*, Guang-yan Yu. Development and validation of the Chinese version of dry eye related quality of life scale[J]. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes,2017,15(1).

8. Li T, Wang Q, Xie Z. Disaster response knowledge and its social determinants: A cross-sectional study in Beijing, China. PLOS One, 2019 Mar 26;14(3):e0214367. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214367.

9. Meng Q, Xie Z, Zhang T. A single-item self-rated health measure correlates with objective health status in the elderly: a survey in suburban Beijing. Frontier in Public Health, 2014,2:27.

10. Su JZ, Zheng B, Liu XJ, Xie Z, Sun D, Cai ZG, Lv L, Yu GY. Quality of life and patient satisfaction after submandibular gland transplantation in patients with severe dry eye disease. The Ocular Surface, 2019, Apr 20. pii: S1542-0124(18)30347-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jtos.2019.04.007