Liming Li

Professor Li worked successively as Assistant to the President of Peking University, President of Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, the first Director-General of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Board Chair and Executive Vice President of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; National inspector of the Ministry of Education, Chairman of the Public Health and Preventive Medicine Committee of the Ministry of Education Steering Committee for Medical Education, Vice Chairman of Working Committee for the Accreditation of Medical Education of Ministry of Education; Chairman of the Chinese Society of Medical Education of Chinese Medical Association, Vice President of Chinese Preventive Medical Association, and Chairman of Association of Epidemiology of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association. His research areas are chronic disease epidemiology and geriatric epidemiology. He is Chief Editors for Chinese Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health Journal. He has co-authored over 300 papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He received Eisenhower Fellowship Award in 1997 and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars Award in 2006. He was awarded Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (HonFFPH) in 2010, and Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) in 2017.