Lijing L. Yan, PhD, MPH, Professor of Duke Kunshan University and Peking University Institute for Global Health and Development. She is the Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center of Duke Kunshan University, since July 2014. Previously, she was the Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Science in Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University, the Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center, and Director of the China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, a large network of 5 international academic institutions and 7 Chinese institutions dedicated to combat NCDs in China. She is also an Honorary Associate at the Center for Healthy Aging and Development Studies, National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA and School of Health, Wuhan University, China. She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Peking University, a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology and a doctoral degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on a number of US NIH and UK MRC-funded and China-funded research grants. She has published over 130 peer-reviewed scientific papers some of which in leading medical journals such as JAMA, the Lancet, and Circulation. Her Scopus citation H-index was 30, Google Scholar H-index 48 and i10-index 76. She is the former secretary general of the China Consortium of Universities for Global Health, the elected member of the Global Health Society and the NCD Prevention and Control Society of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association. She also provides advices and consultancy to national and international organizations such as the China National Health Commission, World Health Organization, World Heart Federation, and the US NIH Fogarty Global Health Training Programs and the US NIH NHLBI Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science Research Programs.