Director, Peking University China Center for Health Development Studies
Professor, School of Public Health Peking University
Director, Institute for Global Health, Peking University
Director and Chief Expert, Beijing Institute for Health Development, Peking University
Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Universal Health Coverage
Prof. REN graduated from Xi'an Medical University (now Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center), Harvard School of Public Health, and School of Public Health Peking University with a Ph.D. degree.
Since 1987, Dr REN has worked in the Ministry of Health and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, and has successively served as Directors of the Department of Health Policies and Regulations and the General Office of the Ministry of Health, and Director General of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health and the National Health and Family Planning Commission. From January 2016 to November 2022, he served as Assistant Director-General for Universal Health Coverage/Communicable and Non-communicable Disease in World Health Organization (WHO). He has served as a member of the governing bodies of global health organizations, including WHO, UNAIDS, The Global Fund to Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as the Chinese head of bilateral health cooperation project committees between China and Russia, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and the Gates Foundation. He was awarded the Honorable Mention of the Russian Federation and the Ordre National du Mérite of France.
He is the co-chair of WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on WHO SPECS 2030 Initiative, a distinguished fellow of the World Economic Forum and a member of the World Economic Forum Network of Global Future Councils (GFCs), a member of the Strategic Advisory Panel of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Malaria program, the Chair of Global Health Governance Expert Group of the National Administration for Disease Control and Prevention, the Vice-President of Chinese Ageing Well Association, the Editor-in-chief of the Global Health Terminology Subcommittee of the National Committee for Terminology in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, a member of the Advisory Board of the China CDC Weekly, the Guest Professors at the School of Public Health of Sun Yat-sen University and China Foreign Affairs University and an honorary advisor of the School of Global Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - National Center for Tropical Diseases.
Main research directions
Global Health Governance and Diplomacy, Universal Health Coverage and Health Systems, Global Health Development, and World Health Organization Governance
Representative scientific research projects
Formulation, measurement and application of collaborative governance index for global health under the framework of sustainable development, 2025-2028, National Natural Science Foundation of China
Promotion of China Strategic Support and Engagement in the African Malaria Elimination, 2024-2027, Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation
1.5°C Proactive Health Project, 2024-2029, EU-China Carbon Neutrality Project Office、Shenzhen Honghai Clean Technology Research Institute
High-quality, efficient and integrated health service system, 2025, WHO
From the perspective of global health governance, promoting the strategic in-depth cooperation between China and the WHO and other multilateral United Nations agencies in the field of traditional medicine, 2024-2025, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of China
Consultancy on Strategic Support for the Development of Strategic and Action Framework on HIV and Memorandum of Understanding 2024-2030 between UNAIDS and China, 2023-2024, UNAIDS
Studies on global public health security assessment, 2024-2025, National Disease Control and Prevention Administration of China
High-quality development of Primary Health Care, 2023-2024, WHO
Research on China Global Health Strategy, 2014-2016, UK DFID
Selected Publications(*corresponding author and senior author)
李娜，宋心怡，陈龙，刘佐坤，尹慧，王敏敏，任明辉*. 2015-2023年中国参与发表全球健康可持续发展目标研究现状.中国预防医学杂志2025年3月第26卷第3期Chin Prev Med，Mar. 2025，Vol. 26 No. 3. DOI：10.16506/j.1009-6639.2025.03.006
李娜，宋心怡，刘佐坤，尹慧，王敏敏，任明辉*.全球健康相关可持续发展目标的文献计量研究.中国预防医学杂志2025年2月第26卷第2期Chin Prev Med，Feb. 2025，Vol. 26 No. 2. DOI：10. 16506/j. 1009-6639. 2025. 02. 006
Zhicheng Wang, Kit Chan, Qianyi Xia, Jiantuo Yu, Minghui Ren*. Integrating prevention and treatment: rethinking China’s health financing, Lancet Public Health Vol 9 December 2024
Yuming Liu, Brian J. Hall, Minghui Ren*. How the U.S. Presidential Election Impacts Global Health: Governance, Funding, and Beyond. Global Health Research and Policy (2024) 9:49
任明辉，王敏敏.新形势下中国全球卫生学科发展的再思考与建议.北京大学学报(医学版). Vo1.56, No 5, Oct 2024
任明辉，世界卫生组织框架下的全球卫生外交，公共外交季刊，2024年第1期（总第57期）
Minghui Ren, Tuohong Zhang, Yangmu Huang, et al. Building quality primary health care development in the new era towards universal health coverage: a Beijing initiative, Global Health Research and Policy (2023) 8:53
Ren Minghui, Mariangela Simao, Bente Mikkelsen, Devora Kestel, Diana Wu, Improving Access to medicines for non-communicable diseases, including mental health conditions. THE LANCET, 2023: S0140-6736(23)00236-2.
Ren Minghui, Feng Zhao, EDITORIALS, Prioritizing mental health through humanitarian, peacebuilding and development actions. Bull World Health Organ, 2022,100:179–179A.
Ren Minghui, Mariangela Simao, Bente Mikkelsen, et al. EDITORIALS, Gaps in access to essential medicines and health products for noncommunicable diseases and mental health conditions. Bulletin World Health Organ 2020,98:582–582A.
Minghui R, Scano F, Sozi C, Schwartländer B. The Global Fund in China: success beyond the numbers [J]. Lancet Global Health, 2015, 3(2): e75-7.
Minghui Ren, Guoping Lu. China's global health strategy. THE LANCET, 2014, 384(9945):719-21.
Ren Minghui, Editorial: Global health and the Belt and Road Initiative. Global Health Journal, 2018,2(4): 1-4.
Ren Minghui (Chief editor). An Introduction to Global Health. Beijing：People's Medical Publishing House, 2016.09.
Ren Minghui, Wang Yin (Chief editors). A Study of Health Systems on Central and Eastern European countries. Beijing：People's Medical Publishing House, 2015.06.
Su Xiaoyou, Liang Xiaohui, Mao Zongfu, Sun Jikuan, Jiang Yu, Liu Yuanli, Ren Minghui. Historical evolution and Chinese definition of global health. Chin J Prev Med, 2015, 49(3): 196-201.
Ren Minghui, Guo Yan. Ethical Reflections on Health Equity. Chin J Prev Med, 2008(06): 388-391.
