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Contact Information
Title
Associate Professor
Office
(Office) E12-2014
Phone
(Office) +853 8822 8997
Email
lijinghua@um.edu.mo
Teaching
Research Team
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Education
PhD The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China, 2015
MSc The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2012
BEng and BEc Tsinghua University, China, 2009
Positions
2025 – Present Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau
2017 – 2025 Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University
2015 – 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Interests
Development and application of mathematical and statistical models, Mental and behavioral health, Health policy, Implementation research.
Representative Publications
  1. Fujita-Imazu S, Xie J, Dhungel B, Wang X, Wang Y, Nguyen P, Khin Maung Soe J, LI Jinghua*, Gilmour S: Evolving trends in drug overdose mortality in the USA from 2000 to 2020: an age-period-cohort analysis. eClinicalMedicine 2023, 61:102079.
  2. LI Jinghua^, Gilmour S^*, Wang Y, Gu J, Lau JTF. Time to consider elimination of HIV in China. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific 2022; 24.
  3. Wang Y, Tanuma J, LI Jinghua*, Iwahashi K, Peng L, Chen C, Hao Y*, Gilmour S*. Elimination of HIV transmission in Japanese MSM with combination interventions. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific 2022; 23.
  4. Wang Y, Tanuma J, LI Jinghua*, Iwahashi K, Peng L, Chen C, Hao Y*, Gilmour S*. Elimination of HIV transmission in Japanese MSM with combination interventions. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific 2022; 23.
  5. LI Jinghua^, Xu J^, Zhou H, You H, Wang X, Li Y, et al. Working conditions and health status of 6,317 front line public health workers across five provinces in China during the COVID-19 epidemic: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2021;21(1):106. (ESI highly cited paper)
  6. LI Jinghua^, Mo PKH^, Kahler CW, Lau JTF*. A three-arm randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a positive psychology and social networking intervention in promoting mental health among HIV-infected men who have sex with men in China. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2021;30:e24.
  7. Wei D^, Hou F^, Cao W, Hao C, Gu J, Peng L, LI Jinghua*. Effects of emotion regulation and perpetrator-victim roles in intimate partner violence on mental health problems among men who have sex with men in China. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2020;29:e159.
  8. Wei D^, Wang X^, You X, Luo X, Hao C, Gu J, Peng S, Yang X, Hao Y, Silenzio VMB, LI Jinghua*, Hou F*. Prevalence of depression, anxiety and suicide among men who have sex with men in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2020;29:e136.
  9. Dhungel B, Shand F, Nguyen P, Wang Y, Fujita-Imazu S, Khin MSJ, Xie J, Wang X, LI Jinghua, Gilmour S. Method-Specific Suicide Mortality in the United States in the 21st Century. Annals of Internal Medicine 2024; 177(1): 110-3.
  10. Hou F, LI Jinghua, Liu H, Caine ED. Changing patterns in suicide mortality 1999–2019 in the USA: age–period–cohort analyses including gender and race. The British Journal of Psychiatry 2025: 1-7.
  11. Zou Q, Shi XF, Liang CW, Ma MM, LI Jinghua, Gu J, Lai YS. Impact of kindergarten structures on the dynamics of hand, foot, and mouth disease and the effects of intervention strategies: an agent-based modeling study. BMC Medicine 23, 357 (2025).

Full publications list
Research Grants
2024 – 2025 Sun Yat-sen University, Youth Elite Talents Program, Research on Infectious Disease Prediction and Early Warning Technology and Application in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (PI)
2023 – 2025 Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, Youth Enhancement Program, Construction and application of a cross-regional transmission model of HIV under the background of population mobility (PI)
2024 Department of Education of Guangdong Province, Digital Course Development for Infectious Disease Prediction and Early Warning Technologies (PI)
2021 – 2023 Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, Academic exchange and promotion of infectious disease dynamics models (PI)
2022 – 2024 Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau, Science and Technology Research Project of Guangzhou, Evaluation of the effectiveness of a comprehensive tuberculosis intervention model: a dynamic transmission model based on tuberculosis diagnostic and treatment cascade (PI)
2019 – 2021 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 81803334), Construction and application of a dynamic model to evaluate the impact of HIV novel prevention interventions in China (PI)
2019 – 2021 China Medical Board (18-301), Open Competition, The impact of the gate-keeping policies of China’s primary health-care model on the future burden of tuberculosis in China: a mathematical modeling study (PI)
2017 – 2019 Sun Yat-sen University, One Hundred Talents Project (百人计划), The cost-effectiveness and epidemiological impact of biomedical HIV interventions in China (PI)
2018 – 2020 NSFC (81703278),Comprehensive HIV interventions among MSM university students: a cohort study (CO-I)
2014 – 2016 NSFC (81302479),Positive psychology on mental health and high-risk behaviors among HIV-infected men who have sex with men (CO-I)
2014 – 2017 NSFC, Influence of intensity of social network on psychosocial health among middle school students: A prospective cohort study (CO-I)
Awards
2024 First Prize for Educational Achievement, Guangdong Province Society for Academic Degrees and Graduation Education
2024 Guangdong Province Graduate Model Course (course leader), Department of Education of Guangdong Province
2018 Early Career Award, International Society of Behavioral Medicine
2013 Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence, CNOOC Grants
2010 ADK China Education Fund Scholarship, The University of Tokyo
Professional Activities
2019 – Present Member, Youth Committee of the Chinese Health Economics Association
2020 – Present Member, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Committee of the Chinese International Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care
2023 – Present Member, Youth Committee of the Guangdong Society of Biostatistics
2020 – 2021 Board Member of Directors, China Health Policy and Management Society
2022 – Present Editorial Board Member, Implementation Science Communication
2021 – 2022 Guest Editor, BioMed Research International
2021 – Present Editorial Board Member, BMC Public Health
2022 – 2023 Guest Editor, Frontiers in Public Health