Commentary on the Global Burden of Disease Study eBook
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About the book
Imprint
Collection
n.c
Publication date
2025-05-30
Pages
300 pages
Print ISBN
9789819651856
Language
English
Ebook informations
EAN PDF
9789819651863
Price
£179.50
EAN EPUB
9789819651863
Price
£179.50
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About author(s)


Dr. Gonghuan Yang, a Full Professor of public health, a senior epidemiologist on chronic non-communicable diseases and related risk factors, especially focused on tobacco use and environmental pollution. She graduated from West China University in 1982, and studied in Harvard School of public health as research fellow during 1987-1990. She has worked in project of adult health study in developing countries of World Bank and Tobacco Free Initiative of WHO. During 2005-2011, she, as Vice Director General of China CDC, was in charge of NCD control, including surveillance of mortality, morbidity and risk factors, setting up public health information platform, organizing and Tobacco control, assessment between environmental pollution and health, and so on. She is also the book editor of: Atlas of the Huai River Basin Water Environment: Digestive Cancer Mortality, 2014, Springer; Tobacco Control in China, 2018, Springer.

She has also published several papers in prestigious journals such as BMJ, JAMA, Lancet etc., and widely cited, including Rapid health transition in China, 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010) with almost 2000 citations.

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