Duan Leilei

Division Director, Injury Prevention and Mental Health.

National Centre for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC.

Duan Leilei is trained as a physician and also holds post-graduate qualifications in public health management and epidemiology. She worked as a physician for 7 years before she went to China CDC.

Now she is the Director of the Injury Prevention and Mental Health Division of the National Centre for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC. Her research interest is injury surveillance, road traffic injury, child injury, elderly falls and violence, etc. Dr Duan Leilei’s major achievements include being involved in establishing the National Injury Surveillance System (NISS) in China, taking the lead of the improvement and the expansion of NISS in 2014, which is the only one surveillance system for injury in China and has 252 surveillance hospitals. She organized the three rounds national injury intervention pilot programs from 2006-2009 and 2013-2015, 2017-2020. The experiences and the lessons from the pilot intervention projects are important for the injury prevention policy making and the strategy development in China. Dr Duan is also responsible for the organization of the capacity building of the China CDC system, international communication, multi-sectoral collaboration on injury prevention. She has been the executive manager of the BPGRSP in China. She is the national data coordination of the Global status report on road safety and the Global status report on violence prevention. At the same time, she is the national focal person of WHO on injury prevention in China.

Other social work:

• Country focal person on injury prevention of WHO, China
• Associated editor of BMJ-Injury prevention
• Honorary Professorial Fellowship of The George Institute, University of New South Wales.
• Adjunct professor of University of Washington, USA
• Adjunct professor of Injury research and policy center, Ohio university, USA
• Expert committee member of National Working Committee of Children and Women
• Standing committee member and Secretary, Injury Prevention and Control Branch, Chinese Preventive Medicine Association; Group Leader, Injury surveillance study group
• Committee member, National product defects and Safety Management Standardization Technology Committee
• Experts for investigation and identification of child’s toys defect, Center for defective product management center, The State Quality Inspection Administration
• Master’s supervisor of China CDC