National Coordinating Centre (Beijing)
Yu Guo, NCC Director
Yu
Guo gained her BSc degree at Harbin Medical University, China in 1985, and an
MSc degree in Public Health School in Beijing Medical University in 1998. She
worked on disease control and management in Dalian City CDC for 12 years and for
the Non-Communicable Disease Department of the Ministry of Health in China from
1997-1998. Since March 2003, she has been working as the Chief of the National
Coordinating Centre (NCC) for the China Kadoorie Biobank. This started with
establishing NCC, selecting the 10 study sites, helping Regional Centres setting
up in each site, and taking charge of all field work. The field work included
organizing, coordinating and monitoring the baseline survey of 0.5 million
participants between 2004-2008; the first resurvey of ~20,000 participants in
2008; and the second resurvey of ~25,000 participants from 2013-1014. She has a
lead role coordinating the long-term follow-up of the cohort including the data
linkage with the national health insurance system making it possible to collect
data on hospitalization events for 97% of participants. Her main research
focuses on public health management and evidence-based medicine, based on big
cohort studies, in order to provide strategies for chronic disease prevention
and control in developing countries.
Pei
Pei is a Clinical Fellow at CKB, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. She
obtained her Bachelor’s degree in nursing in 2002 at Peking Union Medical
College and then worked as a clinic nurse in Peking Union Medical College
Hospital for 9 years. This provided a significant background in chronic disease
and critical care medicine. She worked in Bayer Healthcare Company as Medical
Communications Officer between 2011 and 2014. She joined CKB in 2014 and has
been involved in the outcome validation and adjudication project, which includes
monitoring RCs activities through frequent visits and ensuring that applicable
SOPs and regulations are followed. She is responsible for i-CASE(Internet-based
Case Adjudication for clinical Events) project coordination and communications.
Canqing Yu, Associate Professor
Canqing
Yu completed an undergraduate degree in preventive medicine at Peking University
(PKU) in 2004, and spent the next 5 years completing his PhD in Epidemiology and
Biostatistics in school of Public Health in PKU where he has been working as an
assistant professor ever since. From 2007-2008, he studied cancer epidemiology
as visiting scholar at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in United
States. He visited China Kadoorie Biobank at CTSU, Oxford University from
September 2012 - August 2013 while in receipt of a scholarship from Sino-British
Friendship Trust. He joined National Coordination Centre in 2011. He is
responsible for data management at NCC Beijing, preparing and providing datasets
for RCC and other collaborative institutes and organizations in China. His
research interests focus on non-communicable diseases and their genetic and
non-genetic determinants in large cohort studies as well as twin studies in
China.
Jun Lv, Professor
Jun
Lv is a Professor of Epidemiology, associate director of Department of
Epidemiology & Biostatistics at School of Public Health, Peking University,
and associate director of Peking University Institute of Environmental Medicine.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine degree from Beijing Medical University
in 1998 and received her Ph.D. degree in Epidemiology from Peking University in
2003. She was a visiting scholar at the School of Public Health, University of
California, Los Angeles from 2005 to 2006, and at the School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University in 2016. Her main research focuses on
risk factors of major chronic disease, lifestyle behaviour and the built
environment, and strategies for chronic disease prevention.
Can HOU, Administration
As
NCC Office Administrator, Can Hou is responsible for all funds management,
conference and workshop organization, equipment and consumables purchasing and
other project-related issues. She started her career with China Kadoorie Biobank
in 2009 as a secretary after graduation from China Women’s University with a
Bachelor’s Degree. She was in charge of news and minutes writing, equipment,
stationary and documents management, and compiling financial statements.