Areas of Focus
- Epidemiology of chronic diseases
- Epidemiology of geriatric care
- Medical education and public health education
- Health policy and health management
Work Experience
- Director at Peking University Center for Public Health and Major Epidemic Prevention and Control
- Assistant to the President of Peking University
- Vice Director of Peking University Health Science Center
- President of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine
- First Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
Publications
- Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy at age 30 years in the Chinese population: an observational study, Li L*, 2022
- Lifestyle, cardiometabolic disease, and multimorbidity in a prospective Chinese study, Li L*, 2021
- Genetic risk, incident gastric cancer, and healthy lifestyle: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies and prospective cohort study, Li L*, 2020
- Cooking fuels and risk of all-cause and cardiopulmonary mortality in urban China: a prospective cohort study, Li L*, 2020
- Conventional and genetic evidence on alcohol and vascular disease aetiology: a prospective study of 500 000 men and women in China, Li L*, 2019
- Association of solid fuel use with risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in rural China, Li L*, 2018
- Association between diabetes and cause-specific mortality in rural and urban areas of China, Li L*, 2017
- Fresh fruit consumption and major cardiovascular disease in China, Li L*, 2016
- Consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study, Li L*, 2015
- Contrasting male and female trends in tobacco-attributed mortality in China: evidence from successive nationwide prospective cohort studies, Li L*, 2015
Awards
- 1997: Eisenhower Presidential Award (USA)
- 2006: Distinguished Alumni Award from Johns Hopkins University (USA)
- 2010: Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (HonFFPH)
- 2017: Elected as a Fellow of the Eurasian Academy of Sciences