Ms Wei-Hong Zhang

Wei-Hong Zhang (MD, MPH, PhD, Postdoctoral of University of Oxford) is Professor and supervisor of PhD and Postdoctoral of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Ghent (UGent).  She has long-standing experience in coordinating international projects, particularly EU-funded projects in Europe and China in the field of reproductive health and maternal health. She has published papers as the first or last authors at BMJ and Lancet journals, she teaches courses focused on epidemiology and evidence-based medicine. Wei-Hong Zhang is also academic coordinator of China platform of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science at UG. Collaboration with Chinese partners in the Medicine, Health Science remains very suitable and is currently being further expanded.  She has held the position of adjunct professor at several Chinese universities including Tsinghua University, Research Centre for Public Health; Shanghai Tongji University School of Medicine; Chongqing Medical University, National Research Institution for Family Planning. She has been appointed adjunct associate professor at Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, USA and visiting professor in the department of Population Health at Aga Khan university in Nairobi. She is also Advisor of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China since 2014 and Experts of “Overseas Academicians and Experts Beijing workstation in Tsinghua University” since 2017. She is external expert appointed by European Commission for evaluating the Research Projects in the field of the maternal health and the Coordination Projects targeted EU-China collaboration under HORIZON 2020.