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  • zhihancui@pku.edu.cn

CUI Zhihan

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Global Health and Development at Peking University

Research Field: Health Economics, Behavioral economics and Health Psychology

He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Peking University in 2015 and a Ph.D. degree in sustainable development from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2021. Before joining Peking University, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Behavioral Decision Making division at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. His main research areas are health economics, behavioral economics and health psychology, with research interests mainly including health decision-making, health literacy and behavioral change, healthcare policies, and mental health. His research has been published in scientific, economic, or psychological journals such as Proceedings of National Academy of Science, Health Psychology, Economic Letters, etc. He excels in combining interdisciplinary perspectives such as economics, psychology, and public health, with a focus on using randomized experimental methods to innovatively study biases in people's health behavior and decision-making, and explore effective improvement solutions.