Yi Song

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

Personal profile

In 1999, I graduated from Beijing Medical University (now is Peking University Health Science Center) with a bachelor's degree in preventive medicine. In 2004, I obtained a master's degree in the Department of Women and Children and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center and received my Ph.D. in the same department in 2010. I studied in Lund University (2013-2014) and Stanford University (2017) as a visiting scholar.

I am currently the director of the Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Peking University, and taking the role of director regarding to the Center for Child and Adolescent/School Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention at the same time. My additional specifically roles in：

1. Deputy director, School Health Standards Committee of National Health Standards’ Committee

2. Deputy director, Chinese Association for Student Nutrition and Health Promotion

3. Executive director, Child Mental Education Branch of Chinese Eugenics Association

4. Deputy director,, Child and Adolescent Health Branch of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association

5. Deputy director, School Health Branch of Chinese Health Promotion and Education Association

6. Deputy director, School Health Professional Committee of the China Health Supervision Association

7. Editor-in-Chief, future (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/future/editors)

Main research directions

My main focuses include the social determinants of child and adolescent health and development, especially in multimorbidity prevention, and school health policy.

Representative scientific research projects

1. The grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China: The Role of Daytime-Nighttime Light Exposure Patterns in Modulating the MGBA and Their Impacts on Comorbidity of Obesity and Depressionamong Children and Adolescents, 82574114，2026-2029

2. National key research and development program of China： A study on multimorbidity patterns and risk factors among children and adolescents,2024YFC2707901，2024-2027

3. The grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China: A study on interference mechanism of kisspeptin among ALAN exposure and early puberty development，82273654， 2023-2026

4. Capital Development Fund: Implementation research on the construction and scale up regarding to "Comorbidity-Co-causes-Joint-prevention" comprehensive demonstration district of myopia and obesity among children and adolescents in Beijing guided by RE-AIM framework, 2022-1G-4251，2022-2024.

5. Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation: Effects of evening chronotypes- mediated ALAN exposure on different type of metabolic obesity among children: A nested case-control study, 7222247,2022-2024.

6. China Medical Board: Battling China’s Childhood Myopia Epidemic: A pragmatic prevention strategy using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, 21-434，2022-2024.

10 representative papers

1. Chen TJ, Dong B, Dong Y, Li J, Ma Y, Liu D, Zhang Y, Xing Y, Zheng Y, Luo X, Tao F, Ding Y, Hu P, Zou Z, Pan B, Tang P, Luo D, Liu Y, Li L, Li GN, Tian X, Huang X, Song Y*, Ma J*, Sawyer SM. Matching actions to needs: shifting policy responses to the changing health needs of Chinese children and adolescents. Lancet. 2024;403(10438):1808-1820.

2. Song X, Zhou B, Baird S, Lu C, Song Z, Zhang Y, Wang R, Jiang J, Chen L, Liu J, Yuan W, Liu Y, Dang J, Hu P, Ma J, Dong Y*, Song Y*, Ezzati M, Sawyer SM. Trends and predictions to 2030 in demographic structures and metabolic health for children and adolescents in China: analysis of national school health surveys from 2000 to 2019. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2025;9(8):530-543.

3. Yuan C#, Dong Y#, Chen H, Ma L, Jia L, Luo J, Liu Q, Hu Y, Ma J*, Song Y*. Determinants of childhood obesity in China. Lancet Public Health. 2024;9(12):e1105-e1114.

4. Yuan C#, Dong Y#, Chen H, Ma L, Jia L, Luo J, Liu Q, Hu Y, Ma J*, Song Y*. Public health interventions against childhood obesity in China. Lancet Public Health. 2024;9(12):e1115-e1124.

5. Dong Y#, Yuan C#, Dang J, Song X, Cheng G, Chen Y, Wang H, Mi J, Xi B*, Song Y*. Control of childhood obesity and implications for policy in China. Lancet Public Health. 2024;9(12):e1125-e1135.

6. Ma N, Chen S, Kong Y, Chen Z, Geldsetzer P, Zeng H, Wu L, Wehrmeister FC, Lu C, Subramanian SV, Song Y*, Li Z*. Prevalence and changes of intimate partner violence against women aged 15 to 49 years in 53 low-income and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2021: a secondary analysis of population-based surveys. Lancet Glob Health. 2023;11(12):e1863-e1873.

7. Luo D, Ma N, Liu Y, Yan X, Ma J*, Song Y*, Patton GC, Sawyer SM. Long-term trends and urban-rural disparities in the physical growth of children and adolescents in China: an analysis of five national school surveys over three decades. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2023;7(11):762-772.

8. Luo D, Yan X, Xu R, Zhang J, Shi X, Ma J*, Song Y*, Patton GC, Sawyer SM. Chinese trends in adolescent marriage and fertility between 1990 and 2015: a systematic synthesis of national and subnational population data. Lancet Glob Health. 2020,8(7):e954-e964.

9. Jan C, Xu R, Luo D, Xiong X, Song Y*, Ma J*, Stafford RS. Association of Visual Impairment With Economic Development Among Chinese Schoolchildren. JAMA Pediatr. 2019, 173(7):e190914.

10. Dong Y, Jan C, Ma Y, Dong B, Zou Z, Yang Y, Xu R, Song Y*, Ma J*, Sawyer SM, Patton GC. Economic development and the nutritional status of Chinese school-aged children and adolescents from 1995 to 2014: an analysis of five successive national surveys. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2019,7(4): 288-299.