Zhijie Zheng

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

Personal profile

Professor Zhi-Jie Zheng joined Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in October 2021 to serve as its Chief Representative to China, and Director, China Country Office. He previously served as K.C. Wong Chair Professor, head of the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, and Vice Dean, Institute for Global Health and Development, Peking University. He completed his medical training at Shanghai Medical University and received MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Before joining PKU in 2017, he served chronologically as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky; as a Lead Epidemiologist in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, and as a Supervisory Medical Epidemiologist and Senior Program Director at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA; and as a University Endowed Chair Professor of Public Health and Medicine, and Dean of the School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and the American Heart Association (FAHA).

Main research directions

1. Epidemiology and prevention strategies for diseases of major public health concerns

2. Emergency medical system development and policy

3. Public health emergency preparedness and responses

4. Global health governance

Representative scientific research projects

1. Global Health Strategy and Policy Observatory Program

2. Global Heath Leadership Development Fellowship Program

3. The HearRescue Global Program

4. Triggers of the Onset of Acute Myocardial Infarction

5. Triggers of the Onset of Ventricular Arrhythmias (TOVA)

10 representative papers

1. Zheng ZJ, Croft JB, Giles WH, Mensah GA. Sudden cardiac death in the United States, 1989-1998. Circulation 2001; 104:2158-2163.

2. Xie J, Wu EQ, Zheng ZJ, Sullivan PW, Zhan L, Labarthe DR. Patient-reported health status in coronary heart disease in the United States: age, sex, racial, and ethnic differences. Circulation 2008 Jul 29;118(5):491-7.

3. Fishman GI, Chugh SS, DiMarco J, Albert CM, Anderson M, Bonow RO, Buxton A, Chen PS, Estes M, Jouven X, Kwong R, Lathrop D, Mascette A, Nerbonne J, O’Rourke B, Page R, Roden D, Rosenbaum DS, Sotoodehnia N, Trayanova N, Zheng ZJ. Sudden cardiac death prediction and prevention. Circulation 2010; 122(22):2335-48.

4. Canto JG, Rogers WJ, Goldberg RJ, Peterson ED, Wenger NK, Vaccarino V, Kiefe CI, Frederick PD, Sopko G, Zheng ZJ, for the NRMI Investigators. Relationship of age to sex differences in myocardial infarction presentation and mortality in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (NRMI). JAMA 2012;307(8):813-822

5. Lozano R, Naghavi M, Foreman K, Lim S, Shibuya K, Aboyans V,……, Zheng ZJ, Lopez AD, Murray CJL. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012; 380 (9859):2095-2128.

6. Feltner C, Jones CD, Cene CW, Zheng ZJ, Sueta CA, Coker-Schwimmer EJL, Arvanitis M, Lohr KN, Middleton JC, Jonas DE. Transitional care interventions to prevent readmissions for people with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med 2014;160(11):774-84.

7. Liu F, Zhang L, Ge M, Xing J, You BQ, Zhang XH, Shi OM, Bobrow B, LaBresh KA, Trisolini MG, and Zheng ZJ. Public health interventions to improve access and quality of care for patients with acute cardiac events: overview of The HeartRescue China Program. Cardiol Plus 2016, 1 (2):33-40

8. Song SH, Trisolini MG, LaBresh KA, Smith SC, Jin YZ, Zheng ZJ. County-level variations in premature deaths from non-communicable disease in the United States from 1999 to 2017. JAMA Network Open 2020;3(2): e200241. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020. 0241

9. Huang JJ, Lok V, Ngai CH, Zhang L, Yuan JQ, Lao XQ, Ng K, Chong C, Zheng ZJ, Wong MCS. Worldwide Burden, Risk Factors for, and Trend in Pancreatic Cancer. Gastroenterology. 2020 Oct 12:S0016-5085(20)35244-6. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.10.007.

10. Zhou SD, Han L, Guo Y, Liu P, Zheng ZJ. Global Health Governance for Travel Health: Lessons Learnt from COVID-19 Outbreaks on Large Cruise Ships. Global Health Journal.