Department of Social Medicine and Health Education was founded in 2002, the current director of the Department is Professor Pei-Yu WANG. The department offers the following courses for undergraduate and graduate students including Health Education and Health Promotion, Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Health Behavior, Health Management， and Communication in Public Health. The main research areas are Health education and Health promotion, Health behavior, Health Communication, Health Management for Non-Communicable Diseases, and Nutritional Epidemiology, etc.

Faculty

There are 12 full-time faculties in the Department, including 4 professors, 4 associate professors, 3 lecturers and 1 technician.

Peiyu Wang, Professor, Director of the Department. 

Research fields: Nutritional Epidemiology for NCD, Nutrition and Food Safety, Maternal and children nutrition and health, and Health Management for NCD.

Chun Chang, Professor, Vice Director of the Department. 

Research fields: Health education and health promotion, Health Behavior, and Health communication.

Xinying Sun, Professor. Vice Director and of the Department.

Research fields: Health behavior, Health education, Health communication.

Wenyi Niu, Professor. 

Research fields: Health communication, Health education and health promotion, Intervention Strategies and Tools for NCD in community, Health Management.

Aiping Liu, Associate Professor. 

Research fields: Chronic disease epidemiology, Health management.

Baohua Liu, Associate Professor. 

Research fields: Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases, Health Management of Chronic Diseases.

Yuhui Shi, Associate Professor. 

Research fields: Health education and Health Promotion, Health communication, NCD prevention and MCH.

Defu Ma, Associate Professor. 

Research fields: Maternal and infant health, Nutrition and cancer prevention , intervention and risk assessment of the chronic diseases.

Huaming Zhang, Lecturer. 

Research fields: Nutrition and Food hygiene, Health Management for NCD, Health education and health promotion.

Ying Ji, Lecturer. 

Research fields: Social Support and Health Behaviors, Health Policy and Program Evaluation, Roles of NGOs in Health promotion.

Ai Zhao, Lecturer. 

Research fields: Health Management for NCD, Maternal and Child Nutrition.

Xin Pi, Technician, Research fields: Reproductive and perinatal epidemiology.

Teaching

Courses for undergraduate students: Preventive medicine, Epidemiology and Social Medicine for students majored in Clinical Medicine, Basic Medical Sciences, Stomatology and Nursing are aiming at enabling students’ skills of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Public health. Health education and health promotion for students in School of Public Health is aiming at building their capacity of planning, implementing and evaluating health promotion projects. The elective courses offered by the Department include Health Education and Health Management for all undergraduate students in PKHSC, University Students Health Education for no-medical students from neighbor universities, Health communication and healthy life style for the students in main campus of Peking University aim to improve the students’ healthy lifestyle.

Courses for graduate students: Health education and health promotion, Health behavior, Communication in Public Health, Health Management, Mental health and stress management, Principles and Practices of Questionnaire and Scale.

Research subjects for graduate students: Health education and health promotion, Health Behavior, Health Communication, Health Management for NCD, Nutritional Epidemiology, etc.

Graduate students: By the end of 2018, 21 Ph.D, 99 Masters and 67 MPH (Master of Public Health) have been awarded. And there are 10 Ph.D candidates, 32 master candidates and 11MPH candidates in our department now.

Research Grants in Recent 5 Years

> The Mechanism of Directive and Nondirective Support in Stages of Behavior Change among Patients with Diabetes: A Longitudinal Community Trial Study, National Natural Science Foundation of China.

> The effect and mechanism of R- and S-enantiomers of equol on the lung carcinogenesis and the proliferation, invasion, and apoptosis of the lung cancer cells. National Natural Science Foundation of China.

> Effects of Seabuckthorn and its active ingredients on people with hypercholesteremia and mechanism of cholesterol metabolism, National Natural Science Foundation of China.

> The effect and mechanism of R- and S-enantiomers of equol on the colon carcinogenesis and the proliferation, invasion, and apoptosis of the colon cancer cells. National Natural Science Foundation of China.

> Case Study on the Influence of Social Support on Health Behavior Changes among Adolescents: Based on Social Support Theories and Health Belief Model, National Natural Science Foundation of China.

> Bioavailability of Docosahexaenoic Acid from Different Region and Stereoisomeric Positions of Triacylglycerols in SD Rats with Insufficient Intake of n-3 PUFA and Its Effects in BNDF Related Genes Regulatingl, National Natural Science Foundation of China.

> Application of Health Belief Model on salt-restriction-spoon use among Beijing Residents and a Community trial of the Improved Spoon. National Natural Science Foundation of China

> Application of Stages of Change Model and Self-efficacy Theory to Improve Antihypertention Medication Adherence among Beijing Patients： A Clinical Intervention Study, Natural Science Foundation of Beijing.

> Effects of Seabuckthorn and its active ingredients on T2DM. Natural Science Foundation of Beijing.

> The varied characteristic on the intestinal microflora and development in preterm infants, Natural Science Foundation of Beijing.

> The effect and mechanism of isoflavone and its metabolite equol on atherosclerosis, Natural Science Foundation of Beijing.

> Health education and health promotion strategies and practices in China, National Health and Family Planning Committee.

> Application and effect evaluation of new media in health education of internal migrant population, National Health and Family Planning Committee.

> Pilot study on social integration promote health related behavior of migrant population, National Health and Family Planning Committee.

> National survey on health knowledge awareness of Tuberculosis, National Health and Family Planning Committee.

> Research on health promotion policies in migrants. National Health and Family Planning Committee.

> Research on establishing universal coverage health education system in China, the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

> Research on China's health education system, Development research center of the State Council.

> Research on the promotion of innovative achievements at the mass level -- oriented by mobile health, China development research foundation.

> Healthy city standard preliminary study, focus on healthy population, National standardization administration.

> Terminal evaluation on “Healthy Beijing 10-year Action Plan”. Beijing Health Committee.

> Residents Health Status Survey and Five-year Health Promotion Action Plan of Wuhai, Wuhai Health Bureau.

> Mechanism of health in all policies in Shenzhen, Shenzhen Health and Family Planning Committee.

> Effect of Omega-3 fatty acid supplement on bones in older women after menopause. China Nutrition Association.

> Monitoring of residents' environmental health literacy and communication on environmental health risks, China environmental society.

> Strategies and best practices contributing to adolescent health and development, UNICEF.

> Asian Healthy workplace program, AIA.

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