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.
