Dean of the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health & Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Health and Development of Peking University

Personal profile

Currently, Professor Ming Xu is the Dean of the Department of Global Health of the School of Public Health, and the Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Health and Development of Peking University. He has rich work experience in global health and the development of the healthcare industry. He was the Head of the Department for Emerging Economies and previously the Senior Political Advisor for External Relations at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Switzerland. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products under the Ministry of Commerce of China. Earlier, he served in the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission and the Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Korea. When working with the Global Fund, his focus was mainly on the prevention and control of major infectious diseases and health system strengthening in the implementing countries, and building up collaborations with emerging economies in the health field. When working in China, he participated a lot in formulating the policies and regulations of China’s healthcare industry, ranging from the promotion of trade and investment, regulation of medicinal products, to the enhancement of the international competitiveness of companies. He was the chair and PI of key health projects, and the head or member of evaluation groups to review major health projects at the national level. He now serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP)of the Pandemic Fund hosted by the World Bank and the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Local Production and Technology Transfer of Health Products(TAG-LPTT) .

He got a Ph.D. in industrial economics from Fudan University and completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University. He has written more than one hundred papers and articles in journals and specialized publications.

Main research directions

International development cooperation and global public goods for health; International financing for health; internationalization of China’s health care industry

Representative scientific research projects

1. Research on challenges to the global Health governance and China’s role, 2023-2027, The National Social Science Fund of China

2. Accelerate malaria control and elimination in Myanmar by facilitation and optimizing use of resources, Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, 2022-2024

3. Global Health Leadership Development Program，China Medical Board, 2022-2025

4. Innovative health financing mechanisms and tools of international organizations, The National Health Commission of China, 2023

5. Industrial security surveillance platform for the health industry, Ministry of Commerce of China, 2009-2017

6. The 12th Five-Year Plan for the Import and Export of China’s Health Industry, Ministry of Commerce of China, 2010

Representative papers

1. Yunxuan Hu, Zhebin Wang, Shuduo Zhou, Jian Yang, Ying Chen, Yumeng Wang, Ming Xu*. Redefning Debt-to-Health, a triple-win health financing instrument in global health. Globalization and Health, 6 May 2024. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-024-01043-x

2. Ming Xu*, Christoph Benn, Simon Reid- Henry, Tim Brown, Shuduo Zhou, Jian Yang, Ying Chen, Zhebin Wang. Rethinking International financing for health to better respond to future pandemics. BMJ Global Health 12 November 2023. https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/11/e012988

3. Shuduo Zhou, Xiangning Feng, Yunxuan Hu, Jian Yang, Ying Chen, Jon Bastow，Zhi‑Jie Zheng，Ming Xu*.Factors associated with the utilization of diagnostic tools among countries with different income levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Health Research and Policy, 27 October 2023. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-023-00330-1

4. Yanan Luo, Richard Liang, Ming Xu*. Economic insecurity exposure and cognitive function in late life. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; September 2023. https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2023/09/01/jech-2023-220481

5. Jian Yang, Shuduo Zhou, Xiangning Feng, Ying Chen, Yunxuan Hu, Ming Xu*. Evolving market-shaping strategies to boost access to essential medical products in developing countries with HIV self-testing as a case study. Global Health Research and Policy, 14 July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-023-00310-5.

6. Jian Yang, Shuduo Zhou, Xiangning Feng,Ying Chen,Yunxuan Hu, Ming Xu*. Understanding the Effects of Iatrogenic Management on Population Health: A Medical Innovation Perspective. China CDC Weekly 2023; ISSN 2096-3101, CN 10-1629/R1,Vol. 5 No. 27, 7 July 2023.

7. Ming Xu*, Yunxuan Hu, Shenning Lu, Muhammad Abdullahi Idris, Shuduo Zhou, Jian Yang, Xiangning Feng, Yangmu Huang, Xian Xu, Ying Chen, Duoquan Wang. Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Africa and China's upgraded role as a contributor: scoping review. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-023-01115-x.

8. Ming Xu*, Li Zhang, Xiangning Feng, Zhenyu Zhang,Yangmu Huang. Regulatory Reliance for Convergence and Harmonization in the Medical Device Space in Asia-Pacific. BMJ Global Health, 19 August 2022, Volume 7 -Issue 8. https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e009798.

9. Xiangning Feng, Shuduo Zhou, Jian Yang, Ming Xu*. A Study on the Accessibility of Global Public Goods for Health Based on the Whole Life Cycle. Chinese Health Economics,2023,42(11):1-6. November 2023.

10. Shuduo Zhou, Ming Xu*. Global Health Governance in the New Era and the Road Map for China. Modernization of Management Journal 2022; Volume 3, June 2022.