Duke Kunshan University Long Qian Research Team
Introduction of team's institution
The Global Health Research Center (GHRC) was established in 2013 and co-founded by Duke Kunshan University and the Duke Global Health Institute. Our mission is to improve health and promote health equity in China and globally.
GHRC is built on the principles of scientific excellence and focuses on establishing interdisciplinary, mutually-beneficial collaborations with researchers from China. We aim to conduct high-quality research that leads to informed policy-making and innovative approaches to health challenges at local and global levels. Ultimately, we strive to make contributions to achieve the national goals identified in Healthy China 2030 and other Chinese policies as well as globally the health-related Sustainable Development Goals such as universal health coverage, health system strengthening, and infectious and NCD risk reduction.
Team members
Qian Long, Associate Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University. Her research interest and experience centers on health equity in relation to health systems development (with a focus on health financing and health services organization and delivery), including maternal and child health, tuberculosis control and non-communicable diseases management in poor areas and among vulnerable groups of China and other low- and middle-income countries. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan University, she worked in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, based in Geneva for over two years. She also actively participates in various academic association exchanges and is currently a member of the International Exchange and Cooperation Sub-Committee of the Chinese Antituberculosis Association. She has provided technical advice to the Jiangsu Provincial Health Commission, the Center for Health and Information Statistics of the National Health Commission and the World Health Organization. Dr. Long Qian received her Master of Public Health degree from the Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands and her Doctor of Medical Science degree from the University of Helsinki, Finland. In the past 15 years, she has participated in and managed more than 20 international collaborative projects, mainly funded by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Commission INCO programme, the Academy of Finland, the Gates Foundation, etc. Dr. Qian Long has published 70 peer-reviewed academic papers in international journals, mainly in first-class journals in her research area, including Lancet Public Health, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, PLoS Medicine, etc.
Dr. Yu Wang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University. She received her BS and MS in Sociology from Renmin University and her MS and PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017). Her research focuses on the role of intermarriage and individual achievement as pathways to social mobility, and work and family conflicts in China. A second line of her research focuses on social determinants of health. Her current projects are about the interaction between demographic changes and assortative mating in contemporary China and relationship between family and child vaccinations in China. Her articles have appeared in journals, such as Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Social Science Research, American Journal of Public Health, and Contraception.
Representative achievements of the team in the past five years
Long Q, Jia YF, Li JL, Lou ZX, Liu YG. National Basic Public Health Services Programme in China: Case study (ISBN (WHO) 978-92-4-007781-2 (electronic version); ISBN (WHO) 978-92-4-007782-9 (print version)). 2023; World Health Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (in English).
Jia YF, Jiang WX, Yang BL, Tang S, Long Q. Cost drivers and financial burden for cancer-affected families in China: a systematic review. Current Oncology 2023;30:7654-7671.
Li Z, Jia Y, Parshley I, Zhang Y*, Wang J*, Long Q. Current prevalence, changes, and determinants of breastfeeding practice in China: data from cross-sectional national household health services surveys in 2013 and 2018. Int Breastfeed J. 2023 Aug 11;18(1):40. doi: 10.1186/s13006-023-00572-2. PMID: 37568207; PMCID: PMC10416475.
Jiang W, Trimawartinah, Rahman FM, Wibowo A, Sanjaya A, Silitonga PII, Tang S*, Long Q*. The co-management of tuberculosis-diabetes co-morbidities in Indonesia under the National Tuberculosis Control Program: results from a cross-sectional study from 2017 to 2019. BMC Public Health. 2022 Apr 8;22(1):689. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13017-y. PMID: 35395745; PMCID: PMC8990273.
Long Q*, Zhang Y*, Zhang J, Tang X, Kingdon C. Changes in caesarean section rates in China during the period of transition from the one-child to two-child policy era: cross-sectional National Household Health Services Surveys. BMJ Open. 2022 Apr 13;12(4): e059208. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059208. PMID: 35418438; PMCID: PMC9014066.
Wyatt S, Ostbye T, De Silva V, Long Q*. Antenatal depression in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of public health midwives’ views and practices. Reprod Health. 2022 Jan 28;19(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s12978-022-01330-z. PMID: 35090509; PMCID: PMC8796187.
Long Q*, Guo L, Jiang W, Huan S, Tang S. Ending tuberculosis in China: health system challenges. Lancet Public Health. 2021 Dec;6(12): e948-e953. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00203-6. PMID: 34838198.
Wyatt S, Ostbye T, De Silva V, Lakmali P, Long Q*. Predictors and occurrence of antenatal depressive symptoms in Galle, Sri Lanka: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2021 Nov 10;21(1):758. doi: 10.1186/s12884-021-04239-w. PMID: 34758774; PMCID: PMC8578523.
Wyatt S, Silitonga PII, Febriani E, Long Q*. Socioeconomic, geographic and health system factors associated with rising C-section rate in Indonesia: a cross-sectional study using the Indonesian demographic and health surveys from 1998 to 2017. BMJ Open. 2021 May 21;11(5): e045592. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045592. PMID: 34020977; PMCID: PMC8144035.
*Corresponding Author
Xu, X.,Wang, Yu.,and Zhang, Z. (2023). Family, community, and the society work together to promote non-NIP vaccines among children in China. Innovation Lab for Vaccine Delivery Research. https://vaxlab.dukekunshan.edu.cn/paper/non-epi-vax/.
Jin, Chuyao., Dai, Xiaochen., Mishra, Gita., Wang, Yu., and Xu, Xiaolin. 2023. “Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and risks of depression and physical multimorbidity in later life: Results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.” Maturitas 167 (1):17-23.
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