Minghui Ren

professor
renminghui@pku.edu.cn
Xueyuanlu 38., Haidian district, Beijing, China, 100191
Peking University

Personal profile

REN Minghui is a professor at the School of Public Health and the Director of the Institute for Global Health, Peking University。

He graduated from Xi'an Medical University (now Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center), Harvard School of Public Health, and School of Public Health Peking University with a Ph.D. degree.

Since 1987, Dr REN has worked in the Ministry of Health and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, and has successively served as Directors of the Department of Health Policies and Regulations and the General Office of the Ministry of Health, and Director General of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health and the National Health and Family Planning Commission. From January 2016 to November 2022, he served as Assistant Director-General for Universal Health Coverage/Communicable and Non-communicable Disease in World Health Organization (WHO). He has served as a member of the governing bodies of global health organizations, including WHO, UNAIDS, The Global Fund to Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as the Chinese head of bilateral health cooperation project committees between China and Russia, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and the Gates Foundation. He was awarded the Honorable Mention of the Russian Federation and the Ordre National du Mérite of France.

He has served as the Standing Committee members of the Chinese Society of Health Economics and the China Association for the Prevention and Control of STDs and AIDS, the advisor to the Review Committee of the Textbook on Global Health of the National Colleges and Universities in the People's Medical Publishing House, the director of the editorial board of the Global Health Journal, and the adjunct professor of the Master of International Public Health program at Tsinghua University. He is currently a distinguished fellow of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Advisory Board of the China CDC Weekly, and an honorary advisor of the School of Global Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - National Center for Tropical Diseases.

Main research directions

Global Health Governance and Diplomacy, Universal Health Coverage and Health Systems, Global Health Development, and World Health Organization Governance

Representative scientific research projects

Research on CHINA GLOBAL HEALTH STRATEGY, 2014-2016, UK DFID

10 representative papers

1. Ren Minghui, Mariangela Simao, Bente Mikkelsen, Devora Kestel, Diana Wu, Improving Access to medicines for non-communicable diseases, including mental health conditions. THE LANCET, 2023: S0140-6736(23)00236-2.

2. Ren Minghui, Feng Zhao, EDITORIALS, Prioritizing mental health through humanitarian, peacebuilding and development actions. Bull World Health Organ, 2022,100:179–179A.

3. Ren Minghui, Mariangela Simao, Bente Mikkelsen, et al. EDITORIALS, Gaps in access to essential medicines and health products for noncommunicable diseases and mental health conditions. Bulletin World Health Organ 2020,98:582–582A.

4. Minghui R, Scano F, Sozi C, Schwartländer B. The Global Fund in China: success beyond the numbers [J]. Lancet Global Health, 2015, 3(2): e75-7.

5. Minghui Ren, Guoping Lu. China's global health strategy. THE LANCET, 2014, 384(9945):719-21.

6. Ren Minghui, Editorial: Global health and the Belt and Road Initiative. Global Health Journal, 2018,2(4): 1-4.

7. Ren Minghui (Chief editor). An Introduction to Global Health. Beijing：People's Medical Publishing House, 2016.09.

8. Ren Minghui, Wang Yin (Chief editors). A Study of Health Systems on Central and Eastern European countries. Beijing：People's Medical Publishing House, 2015.06.

9. Su Xiaoyou, Liang Xiaohui, Mao Zongfu, Sun Jikuan, Jiang Yu, Liu Yuanli, Ren Minghui. Historical evolution and Chinese definition of global health). Chin J Prev Med, 2015, 49(3): 196-201.

10. Ren Minghui, Guo Yan. Ethical Reflections on Health Equity. Chin J Prev Med, 2008(06): 388-391.