Dr. Ping HE
Associate Professor with Tenure
Peking University China Center for Health Development Studies
Email: phe@pku.edu.cn
Education Background
2014-2018, Ph.D., Demography, Peking University
2016-2017, Visiting Scholar, Population and Health, Johns Hopkins University
2003-2006, M.S., Health Economics, Shandong University
1999-2003, B.A., Economics, Shandong University
Working Experience
2024-, Associate Professor with Tenure, Peking University China Center for Health Development Studies
2018-2024, Assistant Professor, Peking University China Center for Health Development Studies
2006-2014, Research Assistant, Assistant Research Fellow and Associate Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College
2009-2014, The First Managing Editor of the Chinese Journal of Health Policy
Research Interest
Health Policy, Health Economics, Health Services Research
Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (*corresponding author and senior author)
Cui C, Zhang Y, Ding R, He P*. Impact of the Essential Public Health Service program on financial protection and health outcomes among hypertensive patients: A quasi-experimental study in China. Social Science & Medicine , 2024: 116705.
Wang Y, Ding R, Luo Y, He P*, Zheng X*. Does College Education Reduce the Risk of Schizophrenia? Evidence From a College Enrollment Expansion Policy in China. Schizophrenia Research , 2024, 264: 519-525.
Zhu X, Ding R, Chen X, Wang X, He P*, Wang G*. Discrepancy between objective and subjective cognition and its association with the trajectory of symptoms and functioning in depressive patients. Psychological Medicine , Published online: 03 November 2023, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723002556
Zhao Y, Su B, Zhu D, Guo X, Ding R, Guo D, Lu F*, He P*. Medical service utilization and costs of autism spectrum disorder: evidence from hospital records in Beijing, China, Autism Research , Published online: 21 June 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2970
Ye X, Wang M, Xia Y, He P*, Zheng X*. Direct economic burden attributable to age-related diseases in China: An econometric modelling study, Journal of Global Health , 2023; 13: 04042.
Luo Y, Wang Y, Hong C, He P*, Zheng X*. The shattered “Iron Rice Bowl”: Evidence of Chinese State-Owned Enterprise reform on the risk of depressive symptoms in later life. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 2023, 58 (8): 1193-1200.
Ye X, Zhu D, Wang Y, Chen S, Gao J, Du Y, Wang J, Zuo H, Shi X, He P*. Impacts of the hearing aid intervention on healthcare utilization and costs among middle-aged and older adults: Results from a randomized controlled trial in rural China. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific , 2023, 31 (2): 100594.
Luo Y, Shi Z, Guo D, He P*. Towards Universal Health Coverage: Regional inequalities and potential solutions for alleviating catastrophic health expenditure in the post-poverty elimination era of China, International Journal of Health Policy and Management , 2023;12:7332.
Ye X, He P*. Direct Costs Attributable to Hearing Loss in China: Based on an Econometric Model. Ear and Hearing , 2023, 44 (2): 330-337.
Wang Y, Hu M, Ding R,He P*. The dynamic relationship between subjective social status and health: Evidence from a Chinese cohort study. British Journal of Health Psychology . 2023, 28 (1): 1-21.
He P, Luo Y, Ding R, Zheng X*. Is it just a cure? Re-evaluating the effects of prenatal exposure to the Great Chinese Famine on the risk of infectious diseases in adulthood. Social Science & Medicine , 2022, 341(12): 115487.
Zhu D, Shi X, Chen S, Ye X, He P*. The impacts of price changes in public hospital reforms in China: Evidence from 25 million inpatient data at tertiary hospitals. Health Policy and Planning , 2022, 37(10): 1307-1316.
Wang Y, Hu M, Zhu D, Ding R, He P*. Effectiveness of Collaborative Care for Depression and HbA1c in Patients with Depression and Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Integrated Care, 2022;22(3):12.
Ye X, Zhu D, Chen S, Shi X, Gong R, Wang J, Zuo H, He P*. Effects of providing free hearing aids on multiple health outcomes among middle-aged and older adults with hearing loss in rural China: A randomized controlled trial. BMC Medicine, 2022, 20 (1): 1-12.
Ye X, Zhu D, Ding R, He P*. The effect of China’s compulsory education reforms on physiological health in adulthood: A natural experiment. Health Policy and Planning , 2022, 37(3): 376–384.
Ye X, He P*. The Association between the Community SARS Exposure and Allostatic Load among Chinese Older Adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , 2022, 70 (2): 352-362.
Ye X, Zhu D, He P*. Earlier Migration, Better Cognition? The Role of Urbanization in Bridging the Urban-Rural Cognition Gaps in Middle and Older Age. Aging & Mental Health , 2022, 26(3): 477-485.
Zhu D, Shi X*, Nicholas S, Chen S, Ding R, Huang N, Ma Y, He P*. Medical Service Utilization and Direct Medical Cost of Stroke in Urban China. International Journal of Health Policy and Management , 2022, 11(3): 277-286.
Ding R, He P*. Associations between childhood adversities and late-life cognitive function: Potential mechanisms. Social Science & Medicine . 2021, 291(12): 114478
Li W, Ye X, Zhu D, He P*. The longitudinal association between retirement and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology , 2021, 190 (10): 2220–2230.
Ye X, Zhu D, He P*. The Long-Term Impact of Adolescent Adversity on Health in Middle and Older Adulthood: A Natural Experiment from the Chinese Send-Down Movement.American Journal of Epidemiology , 2021, 190 (7): 1306-1315.
Zhu D, Ye X, Li W, Ding R, He P*. Urban health advantage or urban health penalty? Urban-rural disparities in age trajectories of physiological health among Chinese middle-aged and older women and men. Health & Place, 2021, 69 (5): 102559.
Jin Y, Zhu D*, He P*. Social causation or social selection? The longitudinal interrelationship between poverty and depressive symptoms in China. Social Science & Medicine . 2020, 249(3): 112848.
Zhang Z, Zhu D, Cui B, Ding R, Shi X*, He P*. Association between particulate matter air pollution and lung cancer. Thorax , 2020, 75(1):85-87.
He P*, Sun Q, Shi L, Meng Q. Rational use of antibiotics in the context of China’s health system reform. BMJ . 2019;365:l4016.
Shi X, Zhu D, Man X, Wang W, Zhu K, Nicholas S, He P*. “The Biggest Reform to China’s Health System”: Did the Zero-Markup Drug Policy Achieve Its Goal at Traditional Chinese Medicine County Hospitals? Health Policy and Planning , 2019, 34(7): 483-491.
He P, Luo Y, Guo C, et al. Prenatal war exposure and schizophrenia in adulthood: Evidence from the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology . 2019, 54(3): 313-20.
He P, Liu L, Salas Ian, et al. Prenatal malnutrition and adult cognitive impairment: A natural experiment from the 1959-1961 Chinese famine. The British Journal of Nutrition . 2018,120(2):198-203.
He P, Chen G, Guo C, et al. Long-term effect of prenatal exposure to malnutrition on risk of schizophrenia in adulthood: Evidence from the Chinese famine of 1959–1961. European Psychiatry , 2018, 51(6): 42-7.
He P, Wen X, Hu X, et al. Hearing aid acquisition in Chinese older adults with hearing loss. American Journal of Public Health , 2018, 108(2): 241-7.
