Na He, PhD ‘03

Dr. Na He is currently a Professor of Epidemiology and the Dean of School of Public Health, Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Dr. He has extensive research and implementation experience in HIV epidemiology, prevention and intervention and has served as a consultant for China nationwide anti-HIV/AIDS campaigns since 2004. Dr. He has been Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI for over 30 research grants including NIH/R01 projects, and has led the Comparative HIV and Aging Research in Taizhou (CHART) cohort since 2016, now expanded to the multicenter HIV and Aging-related Noncommunicable Diseases Study (HANDS) in China, which employs epidemiological and multiomics approaches to investigate risk factors and mechanisms of aging and aging-related NCDs in HIV population.

Dr. He has over 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Lancet HIV, Lancet Healthy Longevity, Nature Communications, Nature, Cell, JAMA, EBioMedicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, American Journal of Epidemiology, and AIDS. By serving as a key member in a number of national academic and scientific societies, Dr. He has made enormous contributions to public health education and policy making in the country.

Dr. He received a bachelor’s degree in medicine in 1991 and MSc in Epidemiology in 1994 from Shanghai Medical University, and PhD in Epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 2003, and extensive training in molecular biology at the Hadassah Medical School of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel from 1996-1997.