1.Chronic disease epidemiology

2.Geriatric epidemiology

3.Medical and public health education & management

4.Evidence-based decision making

5.Systems epidemiology

1.Ninth, tenth, and eleventh Five-Year Plan: Community-based comprehensive prevention and treatment of hypertension (1996-2010)

2.China Medical Board: Twin study of non-communicable diseases in China (2001-2005)

3.China Kadoorie Biobank (2003-)

4.Oxford Health Alliance: China Community Intervention for Health Project (Hang Zhou City) (2008-2012)

5.Special fund for Health scientific research in the public welfare: China environmental epidemiology: A cohort study in the Chinese population (2011-2013)

6.China Ministry of Science and Technology: Study of standard operating procedure of techniques appropriate for mega- and prospective cohort study in China (2012-2014)

7.Special fund for Health scientific research in the public welfare: China environmental epidemiology: A cohort study in the Chinese twin population (2015-2018)

8.National Natural Science Foundation of China: A prospective Chinese cohort study of environments and genes and their interactions in the etiology of coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke (2014-2018)

9.National Natural Science Foundation of China: Study on harmonization platform for big data of population health and paradigm of scientific research and managerial decision-making driven by big data (2019-2022)

1.Lv J†, Qi L†, Yu C, Yang L, Guo Y, Chen Y, Bian Z, Sun D, Du J, Ge P, Tang Z, Hou W, Li Y, Chen J, Chen Z, Li L*. Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study. BMJ. 2015;351:h3942.

2.Chen Z*, Peto R, Zhou M, Iona A, Smith M, Yang L, Guo Y, Chen Y, Bian Z, Lancaster G, Sherliker P, Pang S, Wang H, Su H, Wu M, Wu X, Chen J, Collins R, Li L*. Contrasting male and female trends in tobacco-attributed mortality in China: evidence from successive nationwide prospective cohort studies. Lancet. 2015;386:1447-56.

3.Yang L*, Li L*, Lewington S, Guo Y, Sherliker P, Bian Z, Collins R, Peto R, Liu Y, Yang R, Zhang Y, Li G, Liu S, Chen Z. Outdoor temperature, blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease mortality among 23 000 individuals with diagnosed cardiovascular diseases from China. Eur Heart J. 2015;36:1178-85.

4.Du H*, Li L*, Bennett D, Guo Y, Key TJ, Bian Z, Sherliker P, Gao H, Chen Y, Yang L, Chen J, Wang S, Du R, Su H, Collins R, Peto R, Chen Z. Fresh fruit consumption and major cardiovascular disease in China. N Engl J Med. 2016;374:1332-43.

5.Bragg F†, Holmes MV†, Iona A†, Guo Y, Du H, Chen Y, Bian Z, Yang L, Herrington W, Bennett D, Turnbull I, Liu Y, Feng S, Chen J, Clarke R, Collins R, Peto R, Li L*, and Chen Z*. Association between diabetes and cause-specific mortality in rural and urban areas of China. JAMA. 2017;317:280-9.

6.Lv J, Yu C, Guo Y, Bian Z, Yang L, Chen Y, Tang X, Zhang W, Qian Y, Huang Y, Wang X, Chen J, Chen Z, Qi L*, Li L*. Adherence to healthy lifestyle and cardiovascular diseases in the Chinese population. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017;69:1116-25.

7.Yu K†, Qiu G†, Chan K-H†, Lam K-BH, Kurmi OP, Bennett DA, Yu C, Pan A, Lv J,Guo Y, Bian Z, Yang L, Chen Y, Hu FB, Chen Z, Li L* and Wu T*. Association of solid fuel use with risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in rural China. JAMA. 2018;319:1351-1361.

8.Lacey B*, Lewington S, Clarke R, Kong XL, Chen Y, Guo Y, Yang L, Bennett D, Bragg F, Bian Z, Wang S, Zhang H, Chen J, Walters RG, Collins R, Peto R, Li L*, Chen Z. Age-specific association between blood pressure and vascular and non-vascular chronic diseases in 0·5 million adults in China: a prospective cohort study. Lancet Glob Health. 2018;6:e641-e649.

9.Yu C†, Tang H†, Guo Y, Bian Z, Yang L, Chen Y, Tang A, Zhou X, Yang X, Chen J, Chen Z, Lv J*, Li L*. Hot tea consumption and its interactions with alcohol and tobacco use on the risk for esophageal cancer: A population-based cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2018.168(7):489-497.

10.Millwood IY†, Walters RG†, Mei XW, Guo Y, Yang L, Bian Z, Bennett DA, Chen Y, Dong C, Hu R, Zhou G, Yu B, Jia W, Parish S, Clarke R, Davey Smith G, Collins R, Holmes MV, Li L*, Peto R, Chen Z*. Conventional and genetic evidence on alcohol and vascular disease aetiology: a prospective study of 500 000 men and women in China. Lancet. 2019.393(10183): 1831-1842.