• Qualifications

      2008.09-2013.06     Ph.D. Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Sun Yat-sen University,  Guangzhou, China

      2003.09-2008.06     Bachelor. Preventive Medicine, Si Chuan University, Chengdu, China

 

  • Positions and Employment

       Associate Professor, Deputy director, Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University

       Project Manager, Sun Yat-sen Center for Migrant Health Policy

     Adjunct Fellow, Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University

 

  • Research Publications (last five years)
  1. Yu LL, Renzaho A, Shi L, Ling L, Chen W*. The Effects of Family Financial Stress and Primary Caregivers’ Levels of Acculturation on Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems among Humanitarian Refugees in Australia. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 2716; doi:10.3390/ijerph17082716(*corresponding author)
  2. Shi L#, Chen W#, Xu J, Ling L. Trends and Characteristics of Inter-Provincial Migrants in Mainland China and Its Relation with Economic Factors: A Panel Data Analysis from 2011 to 2016. Sustainability. 2020, 12, 610; doi:10.3390/su12020610 (#co-first authors)
  3. Chen W, Li TY, Zou GY, Renzaho A, Li XD, Shi LY, Ling L. Results of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial to Promote the Use of Respiratory Protective Equipment among Migrant Workers Exposed to Organic Solvents in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019, 16(17): 3187
  4. Chen W, Zhang Q, Renzaho A; Ling L. The Disparity in Mental Health Between Two Generations of Internal Migrants (IMs) in China: Evidence from A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019, 16(1: 2608
  5. Chen W, Wu SX, Ling L, Renzaho A. Impacts of social integration and loneliness on mental health of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Evidence from a longitudinal study. Aust NZ J Public Health. 2019; 43(1):46-55 doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12856
  6. Tang W#, Chen W#, Amini A, Boeras D, Falconer J, Kelly H, Peeling R, Varsaneux O, Tucker DJ, Easterbrook P. Diagnostic accuracy of tests to detect Hepatitis C antibody: A meta-analysis and review of the literature. BMC Infectious Diseases.2017; 17(S1). DOI:10.1186/s12879-017-2773-2. (#co-first authors)
  7. Chen W, Zhang Q, Renzaho A, Zhou FJ, Zhang H, Ling L. Social health insurance coverage and financial protection among rural-to-urban internal migrants in China: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study. BMJ Global Health. 2017; 2(4): e000477.DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000477.
  8. Chen W, Zhou FJ, Hall BJ, Tucker JD, Latkin C, Renzaho A, Ling L. Is there a relationship between geographic distance and uptake of HIV testing services? A representative population-based study of Chinese adults in Guangzhou, China. PLoS One. 2017; 12(7):e0180801. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180801.
  9. Chen W, Ling L, Renzaho A. Building a new life in Australia: An analysis of the first wave of the longitudinal study of humanitarian migrants in Australia to assess the association between social integration and self-rated health. BMJ Open. 2017; 7:e014313. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014313
  10. Chen W*, Hall BJ, Ling L, Renzaho A. Pre- and post-migration factors associated with mental health among humanitarian migrants in Australia and the moderation effect of post-migration stressors. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2017; 4(3):218-229(*corresponding author)

 

  • Research Grants
  1. Evaluation of the Comprehensive Reform of Medical Insurance Payment Methods for the County Level Medical Community in Guangdong Province (Funded by Medical Insurance Bureau of Guangdong Province, 2020), PI
  2. Cost-effectiveness of an intervention on occupational health and safety behavior of migrant workers in small-and-medium-sized enterprises: a cluster randomized controlled trial (Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China & Sun Yat-sen University, 2015~2017), PI
  3. Intervention of personal protective behavior of migrant workers exposed to organic solvents in small-and-medium-sized enterprises--a cluster randomized trials. (Junior faculty training program of Sun Yat-sen University, 2015~2018), PI
  4. Health promotion for migrant children and adolescents in Guangdong province. (Funded by Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province, 2017), PI
  5. Research on workplace occupational health education among migrant workers in Guangdong Province. (Funded by Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province, 2016), PI
  6. Research on remote medical insurance treating settlement for migrants in Guangdong Province. (Funded by Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province, 2015), PI
  7. A pilot intervention on occupational health and safety behavior of migrant workers in small-and-medium-sized enterprises (Funded by Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province, 2014~2016), PI
  8. Development of a Tobacco Control Trial among Migrant Workers in Guangzhou, China (Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Welcome Trust (WT), 2015~2016), Co-PI
  9. Assess the impact of patterns of migration on risky sexual behavior and STD/HIV transmission in Guangzhou, China (Funded by Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA, 2013~2014), PI
  10. Assess and improve occupational health and safety practice and behavior of migrant workers in small-and-medium-sized enterprises (Funded by China Medical Board (USA), 2014~2015), Co-PI

 

  • Other publications

     Books/Book Chapters

  1. Editor. Guide and Practice for Medical Statistics. 2016, People’s Medical Publishing House
  2. Deputy Editor. Migration and Health in China. 2015, Beijing: China Social Science Press
  3. Editor. Report on the Status Quo of Public Health of Migrants in China. 2011, Guangzhou: Sun Yat-sen University Press.
  4. Translator. Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials (3rd edition). 2010, Beijing: People's Medical Press
  5. Editor. Report on Construction of Disease Prevention and Control System of Guangdong Province. 2008, Guangzhou: Nanfang Daily press.
  6. Editor. Community Medicine. 2011, Beijing: People's Medical Publishing Press.
  7. Editor. The Basis of Medical Statistics (2nd edition). 2009, Shanghai: Fudan University Press.

 

  • Awards

     Internet-based Interactive Teaching--the Construction and Application of MOOC course "Medical Statistics", a core public health curriculum, the First Prize of Guangdong Teaching Achievement, the Sixth Participant

   

  • Other positions and social services

2019.12-    Biostatistics Branch of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics, Deputy Secretary-General

2019.10-    Editorial Committee of Chinese Occupational Medicine, Youth Editor

2019.09-    Evaluation and Certification Center of Drug Administration of Guangdong Province, Evaluation Expert

2017.11-    Professional Committee on Statistical Theory and Methods of Chinese Health Information Association, Committee Member

2017.08-    The 3rd Drug Clinical Trials Professional Committee of Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association, Committee Member

2017.08-    Chinese Branch of International Biometric Society, Deputy Secretary-General 

2017.06-    Drug Registration Expert Committee of Guangdong Province, Committee Member

2016.08-    Guidance Committee of Health Promotion of Migrant Population in Guangdong Province, Committee Member

2015.07-    Youth Committee of Biological Statistics Branch of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, Committee Member

2014.12-    Youth Committee of Drug Clinical Trials Professional Committee of Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association, Vice-chairman