Dr. Xin Ye is an assistant professor from Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. She got her BA in Law from Renmin University of China, Master of Social Work from Peking University, and her Ph.D. degree in Social Medicine and Health Service Management from Peking University.

Her research interests are health policy evaluation, health inequalities across the life span, health services research and health economic evaluation. Her work has been published in high-quality academic journals, such as JAMA Network Open, Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific, BMC Medicine, Current Environmental Health Reports, Journal of Global Health, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, American Journal of Epidemiology, Health Policy and Planning, and Population & Development (《人口与发展》).

She has led two projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, the Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment of the National Health Commission. She has participated in projects supported by the National Social Science Fund of China, the National Natural Science Foundation, the China Medical Board Open Competition (CMB-OC2), Beijing Natural Science Foundation, etc. She works as an anonymous reviewer of journals such as Public Management Review, Finance Research Letters, BMJ Global Health, International Journal for Equity in Health, Health and Place.

Research Interests

Health policy, Health inequality, Health services research, Health economic evaluation

Education

• 2019.09-2022.06, Ph.D., School of Public Health, Peking University

• 2017.09-2019.06, M.S.W., Institute of Population Research, Peking University

• 2013.09-2017.06, B.A., School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China

In English

• Ye, X.*, & Wang, Y. (2023). Association of urban-rural health insurance integration with health outcomes among middle-aged and older adults in rural China. JAMA Network Open, 6(4), e237583.

• Ye, X., Zhu, D., Wang, Y., Chen, S., Gao, J., . . .He, P. (2022). 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, 100594.

• Ye, X., Zhu, D., Chen, S., Shi, X., Gong, R., Wang, J., . . . He, P. (2022). 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, 20(1), 124.

• Ye, X.*, & Lin, H. (2023). Global research on natural disasters and human health: A mapping study using natural language processing techniques. Current Environmental Health Reports.

• Ye, X., Wang, M., Xia, Y., He, P., Zheng, X. (2023). Direct economic burden attributable to age-related diseases in China: An econometric modelling study. Journal of Global Health, 13, 04042.

• Ye, X., & He, P. (2022). The association between the community SARS exposure and allostatic load among Chinese older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 70(2), 352-362.

• Ye, X., Zhu, D., & He, P. (2021). The long-term impact of adolescent adversity on health in middle and older adulthood: A natural experiment from Chinese send-down movement, American Journal of Epidemiology, 190(7), 1306-1315.

• Ye, X., Zhu, D., Ding, R., & He, P. (2022). The effect of China’s compulsory education reforms on physiological health in adulthood: a natural experiment. Health Policy and Planning, 37(3), 376-384.

• Ye, X.*, Hu M., & Lin, H. Effects of the long-term care insurance on health among older adults: A panel data from China. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12: 7664.

• Ye, X., & He, P. (2023). Direct costs attributable to hearing loss in China: an econometric model. Ear and Hearing, 44(2), 330–337.

In Chinese

• Ye, X*. (2023). The current situation, challenges and countermeasures of negative population growth in China, Journal of Yangzhou University (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), 27 (05), 76–92.

• Ye, X., Zhu, D., Chen, S., & He, P. (2020). The societal cost of hearing impairment: A systematic review. Population and Development, 26 (04), 51-59.

• Ye, X., Zhu, D., Gao, J., & Chen, S., & He, P. (2019). The impact of hearing on the depression of older Chinese adults. Population and Development, 25 (05), 66-74.

• Ye, X*. (2018). The impact of living arrangement on the mental health of widowed older adults in China—Based on the follow-up data from CHARLS 2015. Population and Development, 24 (05), 113-121.

• Zhen, X., He, P., Guo, C., Luo, Y., Ye, X., Zhang, C. (2021). Evidence on the major social and environmental events and population health: The development of “events demography” in China. Population and Development, 27(01), 25-35.

• Chen, S., Ye, X., Zhu, D., Shi, X., & He, P. (2022). Impact of the comprehensive reform of separating of prescribing and dispensing on hospitalization expenses of public hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Beijing. Chinese Hospital Management, 42 (07), 25–29.

• Risk factors, cumulative effects and risk prediction of cognitive impairment in the elderly from the life course perspective, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024-2026. (Principal Investigator)

• Health economics evaluation on hearing aid rehabilitation intervention for elderly people with hearing impairment, funded by the Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment of the National Health Commission, Open Fund Project, 2023.6-2024.12. (Principal Investigator)

• The impact of community rehabilitation intervention on the quality of life of elderly people with hearing loss and cost-effectiveness evaluation, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2019-2022. (Principal Participant)

• Research on disability prevention strategies and application in the context of population aging, funded by the Major Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China, 2022-2024. (Participant)

• The impact of community-based rehabilitation interventions on quality of care for people with schizophrenia: A cluster-randomized controlled trial, funded by the China Medical Board Open Competition (CMB-OC2), 2021-2023. (Participant)

• A validation study on the central-level payment correlation index of the world bank health reform promotion project in China, funded by the National Health Commission in China, 2018-2021. (Participant)

• Effects and economic evaluation of integrated service intervention on health outcomes in patients with diabetes and depression, funded by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, 2021-2023. (Participant)

• Expanding the middle-income group and promoting common prosperity, funded by the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, 2021.5-2021.12. (Participant)

• Evaluation of influenza vaccination methods, funded by the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, 2020-2021. (Participant)

Academic Awards

• 2023, the excellent poster award in the International Health Promotion and Development Forum (Guangzhou) and the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Health Policy and Management Association (CHPAMS).

• 2022, the second prize of excellent papers in the Fifth China Health and Economic Development Forum.

• 2021, the third prize for excellent papers in the 5th West China Health Policy and Economics Doctoral Forum.

• 2020, the first prize in the Second Qilu Health Economics and Policy Doctoral Forum.

• 2020, the Excellence award in the Forum for Young Scholars in Medicine and Health Administration.