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Honorary Editor-in-Chief

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  Qunan Mao

  Planning, Development and Information Technology Department of the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China

  Interests: informatization of health administration; news publicity; health promotion; disease prevention and control; health planning

  Biography:

  He is currently the vice president of the China Hospital Association and formerly director of the Planning, Development and Information Technology Department of the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China. He graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 1985 and obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine; in 1992, he received a master's degree in the School of Public Health of Tongji Medical University (now Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology). He has studied health management and health information management at the Emory University School of Public Health and the University of New South Wales in Australia, and has authored monographs such as "Health Insurance in USA" and "Australian Medical System and Health Management". In 1987, he joined the General Office of the Ministry of Health and was gradually promoted to director. In 2002, he served as deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry of Health. Since 2008, he has served as director and secretary of the Party Committee of China Health Education Center/Ministry of Health News and Publicity Center. During the fight against SARS in 2003, as the spokesperson of the Ministry of Health, his daily epidemic release attracted widespread attention at home and abroad. After the establishment of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in 2013, he served as director and spokesperson of the Publicity Department. In November 2017, he was transferred to the position of director of the Disease Control and Prevention Bureau of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. After the institutional reform in March 2018, he served as director of the Planning, Development and Information Technology Department of the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, and served as deputy director of the National Health Office and executive deputy director of the Office of the Healthy China Action Leading Group. He served as a representative of the 15th People's Congress of Beijing.

Editor-in-Chief

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  Xiaokun Li MD

  School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

  Interests: growth factor; FGF; regeneration; metabolism; wound healing; metabolic disease; diabetes; diabetic complications

  Biography:

  Li Xiaokun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has long been dedicated to the theoretical research, drug development, and talent cultivation of genetic engineering protein drugs, with a focus on fibroblast growth factors (FGFs). He has established a mature "theory-practice-theory" R&D system and systematically addressed the challenges of FGF druggability. As the first completer, he has been awarded one National Technology Invention Award (Second Class) and one National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class), and as a major contributor, he received one National Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class). Individually, he has been honored with the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize, and C.C. Tan Life Science Award, among others.

  He has presided over and completed multiple national and provincial-level major research projects, and led the establishment of China's first National Engineering Research Center for Genetic Engineering Drugs. His team is a leading group in the field of growth factor research in China. As a corresponding author (including co-corresponding author), he has published over 190 FGF-related research papers in top international journals such as Nature and Cell Metabolism. He has obtained three Class 1 New Drug Certificates, all of which have achieved industrial application, and holds multiple authorized invention patents that have been successfully applied in clinical treatments.

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  David W. Bates MD, MSc

  Center for Patient Safety, Research, and Practice, Department of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

  Interests: patient safety; artificial intelligence; medical informatics; quality of health care

  Biography:

  Dr. Bates is an internationally renowned expert in using information technology to improve clinical decision-making, patient safety, quality-of-care, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes assessment in medical practice. A practicing general internist, Dr. Bates is Chief Innovation Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where he is also Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he co-directs the Program in Clinical Effectiveness. He also serves as Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis for Partners HealthCare. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics, and is past chairman of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association. He serves as external program lead for research in the World Health Organization’s Global Alliance for Patient Safety. He is the president of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) and serves as the editor of the Journal of Patient Safety.

Founding Editor

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  Tingjian Guo PhD

  Big One Health Development Research Institute, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China; Wenzhou Cross-Strait Big Health Development Association (WZCBHDA), Wenzhou, China

  Interests: hospital management

  Biography:

  Tingjian Guo obtained a master's degree in hospital management from Flinders University and a doctorate in public health policy and management from Lisbon University College. He is currently the executive dean of the Wenzhou Medical University of Big One Health Development Research Institute and the founding editor-in-chief of Global Health and Hospital Management. He is a master's supervisor, visiting professor, senior economist, and concurrently the President of the Wenzhou Cross-Strait Big Health Development Association, the Vice President of the County Modern Hospital Management Branch of the Chinese Bethune Spirit Research Association, and the Vice Chairman of the Hospital PROMs Research and Transformation Collaborative Network. He has been engaged in hospital management for a long time, and has achieved good results in the practice and research of the "county management and township use" training and use model of general practitioners in China and the construction of county medical communities. He was successively elected as a member of the 11th Party Congress Representative of Zhejiang Province and a member of the 12th National People's Congress of Zhejiang Province.

Senior Consulting Editor

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  Tingfang Liu

  School of Health Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

  Interests: health system reform; health policy and hospital management; medical quality and patient safety; healthcare organization evaluation; international medical tourism

  Biography:

  Liu Tingfang is a senior research fellow of PKU Institute for Global Health and Development; Director of Hospital Management Program, PKU China Center for Health Economic Research; He is a Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Health Policy and Management of Peking Union Medical College, and a Founder and Professor at the Tsinghua University Hospital Management Research Institute. He serves as a member of the Expert Guidance Committee for Academic Postgraduate Training at Tsinghua University, the Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee at the Peking University Health Economics Research Center, the President of the Medical Branch of the China Quality Association, the Vice Chairman of the Healthcare Management Professional Committee of the China Management Science Society, and a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Third Leadership Group for Healthcare Reform of the State Council. He is a Fellow of ISQua-lAQS, a Chief Expert at WHO-lSQua (IPC), and a reviewer for "Risk Management and Healthcare Policy." He has led more than 50 national and provincial-level scientific research projects, edited 10 monographs and contributed to 4 others, organized and compiled the first series of 18 hospital management graduate textbooks in Asian countries and regions, and published nearly 200 articles (including 35 in SCI). He has been awarded more than 30 titles, including the China Hospital Management Outstanding Contribution Award, the China Quality Excellence Contribution Award, "Top Ten Figures in Healthcare Reform," and "Bethune Spirit Model.

Associate Editors

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  Hong Jiang PhD

  Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

  Interests: capital operation and financial management; audit theory and practice; internal control and risk management; public health policy and management

  Biography:

  Ph.D. in Management from Jinan University, is a professor and doctoral supervisor. She began working in July 1990 and has served as a Standing Committee member of the Party Committee and Vice President of Southern Medical University, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Southern Medical University, as well as President and Party Secretary of Shantou University. In June 2023, she assumed the role of Party Secretary of the Southern University of Science and Technology.

  Her main research areas include capital operations and financial management, auditing theory and practice, internal control and risk management, and public health policy and administration. In recent years, she has supervised over 200 doctoral and master’s students, published more than 50 papers in authoritative and core journals, and led multiple national and provincial-level research projects. Over the past five years, she has presided over several projects, including the Guangdong Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project. She has received awards such as the Second Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, First Prize of the Guangdong Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, First Prize of the National Health and Family Planning Commission Research Project Award, and the Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Engineering.

  She currently holds positions including Vice President of the China Health Law Society and Part-time Vice Chair of the Guangdong Social Sciences Association.

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  Dong Wang PhD

  School of Health Management, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen, China

  Interests: health policy evaluation; hospital operation management; health behavior measurement

  Biography:

  With a doctoral degree, he currently serves as Vice President and Professor at Southern Medical University, primarily engaged in teaching and research related to health administration.

  He began teaching at Southern Medical University in September 2004, holding positions such as Lecturer, Associate Professor, Vice Dean, and Dean. During this time, he conducted postdoctoral research at the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, from 2011 to 2013, and was a visiting scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2013 to 2014. In 2020, he was temporarily assigned as Deputy Director of the Jiangxi Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He assumed his current position in January 2024.

  His representative publications include multiple papers in Chinese and international journals such as The BMJ, Qiushi, Science of The Total Environment, and Journalism & Communication Research. He has also led several national-level research projects, including the National Social Science Fund Major Project "Research on Improving the Major Epidemic Prevention and Control System" and the National Natural Science Foundation of China project "Research on the Measurement of Physicians' Professional Technical Compensation Based on Technical Capability and Intra-Department Redistribution System." He has received honors such as the Third Prize of the Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Award and the First and Second Prizes of the Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award.

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  Janelle Yorke PhD

  School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR, China

  Interests: quality of life nursing and health

  Biography:

  Currently Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Nursing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, she was awarded the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Global STEM Professorship in 2024 (the first in the nursing field). She also serves as Director of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Digital Oncology Care Enhancement Laboratory (DOCE), a recipient of the Chan Lau On Professorship in Health and Longevity. Previously, she served as the inaugural Professor of Cancer Nursing at the University of Manchester and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust (2015-2023). She led the development of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) system that was successfully integrated into routine clinical care, covering 38 disease groups and collecting 70,000 reports from 27,000 patients. She currently serves as an advisor to the team.

  She has led and collaborated on research funding totaling over 100 million Hong Kong dollars (HKD/GBP), including: a project she led received a core digital oncology grant of HKD 7.685 million from Hong Kong and over 3 million pounds from the UK (including ePROM system integration and symptom management); she has participated as a core collaborator in a number of international projects worth tens of millions of pounds, with the highest single grant being 59.1 million pounds (cancer survival research), as well as a 16.5 million pound radiotherapy network and a 3.5 million pound early cancer detection alliance. Her research focuses on digital health technologies and innovations in tumor symptom management.

  Her academic contributions include serving as Chair of the NIHR Predoctoral Clinical Academic Program and a Professorial Award reviewer, serving as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Oncology Nursing, publishing over 30 papers as first author, and developing internationally recognized assessment tools such as the "Dyspnea-12." She led the development of the Christie Clinical Academic Pathway in the UK, promoting the development of nursing academic talent. In the past five years, she has delivered over 30 internationally invited lectures on cutting-edge topics such as the clinical implementation of ePROM and AI-integrated oncology decision-making.

  Her professional registrations include NMC Registered Nurse/Teacher, and her academic appointments include Honorary Professorship at the University of Manchester and Associate Professorship at Newcastle University. Her clinical experience spans heart and lung transplantation (St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney), ICU nursing (Saudi Arabia and the UK), and oncology (20 years).

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  Xuebo Zhu PhD

  Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China

  Interests: higher medical education; medical and health services; social security; internationalization of education

  Biography:

  Zhu Xuebo is a Member of the Party Committee and Vice President of Wenzhou Medical University, and a Doctoral Supervisor. Her primary research focuses on higher medical education, healthcare services and social security, and education internationalization. She holds several academic appointments, including Council Member of the Chinese Society of Administrative Management, Council Member of the Laboratory Work Branch of the China Association of Higher Education, Youth Committee Member of the Medical Education Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and Member of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Public Administration Disciplines of Zhejiang Province.

  She has led two national-level projects, one general project from the National Social Science Fund, one sub-project of the National Social Science Fund Decision-Making Consultation, and six provincial/ministerial-level research initiatives. With over 40 academic publications to her name, her work includes six CSSCI-indexed journal articles and five first-tier journal papers. She has also authored or co-authored four monographs. Several of her policy advisory reports have received instructions from national and provincial-level leaders. Her accomplishments include awards such as the Outstanding Achievement Award in Scientific Research from the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Outstanding Achievement Award in Provincial Education Planning, the Second Prize in the 7th Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions, and the First Prize for Teaching Achievement Award of Zhejiang Province.

  Additionally, she serves as Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Wenzhou Medical University, Member of the Zhejiang Provincial Advisory Committee for Undergraduate Program and Curriculum Development, Member of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Public Administration Majors of Zhejiang Province, Council Member of the Laboratory Work Branch of the China Association of Higher Education, and Vice Chairperson of the Medical Education Branch of the Zhejiang Medical Association. She has frequently participated in certification and evaluation activities organized by the Ministry of Education, demonstrating extensive experience in academic management and teaching reform.

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  Zhongliang Zhou PhD

  School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

  Interests: health policy and health system

  Biography:

  Second-Class Professor and PhD Supervisor, currently serving as Dean and Deputy Party Secretary of the School of Public Policy and Administration at Xi’an Jiaotong University. His research focuses on health systems, health policy, and emergency management of public health events.

  He earned his PhD in Medicine from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2011 and studied as a joint-training PhD student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2009 to 2011. He has been teaching at Xi’an Jiaotong University since 2011, serving successively as Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Vice Dean, and Executive Dean, and assumed his current position in May 2022.

  He has been selected for several national-level leading talent and young talent programs, and is also the lead of the Shaanxi Provincial "Sanqin Scholar Innovation Team" and a "Youth Science and Technology Star." His academic appointments include membership in the National MPA Education Steering Committee and directorship at the Chinese Health Economics Association, among others. He also serves as an editorial board member or editor for several Chinese and international academic journals.

  He has led over 50 research projects, including major projects of the National Social Science Fund, projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and grants from the China Medical Board. He has published more than 100 SSCI/SCI-indexed papers in high-impact international journals such as The Lancet and Social Science & Medicine, including 70 as first author or corresponding author. He has received 12 research awards, including the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Second Prize, and has frequently presented at international academic conferences.

Editorial Board Members

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  Felix Holl PhD

  Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Neu-Ulm, Germany; Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health, Bremen, Germany

  Interests: digital health evaluation; global health informatics; humanitarian digital health; digital public health

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  Joris van de Klundert PhD

  School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago de Chile, Chile

  Interests: operations research; health services management; healthcare operations

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  Alvin Wong PhD, MSc, BSc

  Department of Dietetics, Allied Health Division, Changi General Hospital, Singapore; Department of Integrated Digestive & Metabolic Health, Changi General Hospital, Singapore; SingHealth Duke-NUS Surgery Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

  Interests: health economics; public health; clinical nutrition; dietetics

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  Wenhua Wang PhD

  Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; School of Public Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China

  Interests: health governance system; public policy and management; health service delivery system

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  Feng Jiang MD, PhD

  School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; Institute of Healthy Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  Interests: health governance; health policy

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  Jian Cao PhD

  China Center for Economic Development Research, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

  Interests: hospital management; medical reform policy; social healthcare

  Biography:

  Researcher at the Center for China Economic Development Research, University of International Business and Economics, Visiting Professor at Wenzhou Medical University, Visiting Professor at Hainan Medical University, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Health Culture Association. Research areas include hospital strategy and operations management, hospital culture, internet healthcare, hospital finance, and health tourism. He has published over 100 articles and five books. He has undertaken numerous research projects for the National Health Commission's Department of Medical Administration, Department of Medical Emergency Management, Department of Legal Affairs, and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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  Linxia Liu PhD

  First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University, Henan, China; Forensic Identification Center, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China

  Interests: hospital management; medical education; public health policy

  Biography:

  A doctoral candidate, she currently serves as a member of the Party Committee and Chairperson of the Labor Union of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University, as well as Director of the Henan University Forensic Identification Center. She has worked at the hospital since 2013. She received her doctorate in public health policy and management from Southern Medical University (supervisor: Jiang Hong). Her research focuses on hospital management and she has studied in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and other countries, where she has studied medical education, hospital management, and public health policy.

  She holds a wide range of academic and social positions, including as Vice Chairman of the Medical Humanities Examination Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association (responsible for setting the national examination questions for physician laws and regulations); President of the Southern Medical University Henan Alumni Association; "New Era Legal Education Ambassador" of Henan Province (one of only two individuals in the province's health system to be selected); Deputy Secretary-General of the Health and Health Law Research Association; member of the Legislative Advisory Expert Pool of the Kaifeng Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee; and President of the Kaifeng Forensic Identifiers Association.

  In terms of professional contributions, she has been deeply involved in the drafting and revision of numerous important national and local health laws and regulations, including the "Regulations on the Prevention and Handling of Medical Disputes", the "Basic Medical and Health Care and Health Promotion Law", the "Practicing Physician Law", and the "Henan Province Basic Medical and Health Care and Health Promotion Regulations". She also participated in Professor Wang Chenguang's health law project at Tsinghua University and in the compilation of the 2015-2017 "White Paper on the Practice Status of Chinese Physicians". She has undertaken research projects for the National Health and Family Planning Commission. In 2021, she served as deputy editor-in-chief of the "Health Law" (Tsinghua University Press) and "Medical Cosmetic Law" (Science and Technology Press). She actively promotes legal education, giving lectures nationwide on rule of law in hospitals, legal practice, and risk prevention, reaching nearly 100,000 people online and offline.

  As a management practitioner, she co-founded and served as the class instructor for the 2019 Henan Province "Professionalization Training Course for Hospital Directors". She designed a systematic curriculum and invited domestic and international experts to deliver lectures, successfully training over 150 hospital management personnel, including secretaries, directors, and vice directors, from hospitals across the province and beyond (including over 30 secretaries and directors at all levels in Henan), improving hospital decision-making. Under his leadership, the Henan University Forensic Identification Center jumped from outside the top 100 in the province to the forefront within five years (2019–2024).

Statistical Editor

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  Yibo Wu PhD, MPharm

  International School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Yiwu, Zhejiang, China

  Interests: innovation in measurement tools and methods for psychology and behavior; the formation mechanism and consequences of psychology and behavior; the effect of psychological