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Li Liu, PhD

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  • Assistant Professor

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615 N. Wolfe Street
Room E4144
Baltimore, Maryland 21205

410-955-3351

For a full list of publications and their citations, please see my Google Scholar page

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Education

PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2008
MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2006
MBBS, Peking University Health Science Center, 2001

Overview

Dr. Liu is a population health researcher dedicated to study and address the leading causes of child mortality. She has multidisciplinary background in medicine, maternal and child health, epidemiology, biostatistics, and demography. Her research focuses on applying interdisciplinary quantitative strategies to measure and estimate all-cause and leading cause-specific child mortality, and to investigate jointly their biosocial etiologies. Dr. Liu practices to disseminate evidence on reducing child mortality due to leading causes and advocate to improving child survival. She also teaches introductory and advanced quantitative population health and demographic methods.

Dr. Liu has been investigating methodological and substantive issues to improve the estimation and estimates of levels and causes of child mortality, particularly in settings with inadequate civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS), and has been generating high impact scientific evidence in this area. Relevant to this work, she is also interested in strengthening CRVS in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). She has worked on quantifying the burden of leading causes of child mortality in LIMICs, such as pneumonia and diarrhea. Recently, Dr. Liu has become increasingly interested in the complex and joint effects of biosocial etiologies of the leading causes of child mortality, e.g. preterm birth. Her research has been and continues to be supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development, the Johns Hopkins University, the National Institute of Health, and the World Health Organization.

Honors and Awards

Endowed Fellowship in Family Planning and Reproductive Health: 2006 – 2007, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health Tuition and Stipend Fellowship: 2004 – 2006, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Josephine Kohn and Family Fund Award: 2002 – 2004, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Outstanding Undergraduate: 2000, Beijing Department of Education

Medical Education Scholarship of United Laboratories: 2000, Peking University Health Science Center

Scholarship for Academic Excellence: 1996 – 1999, Peking University Health Science Center

 

Editorial Board Membership

Journal of Global Health

  • child causes of deaths
  • child mortality
  • causes of child mortality
  • cause-specific mortality rates
  • under-five mortality
  • neonatal mortality
  • verbal autopsy
  • vital registration
  • sample registration system
  • civil registration and vital statistics
  • preterm birth
  • pneumonia
  • diarrhea
  • reproductive health
  • maternal health
  • neonatal health
  • child health
  • burden of diseases

Selected peer-reviewed publications from 44 papers published to date. Those include 35 peer-reviewed papers, 3 invited articles or editorials, and 6 chapters/monographs/books. Dr. Liu has first-authored 17 of the 44 papers. Thirteen appeared in The Lancet. According to Google Scholar, by July 17, 2017, Dr. Liu's publications have received 7,911 citations with an h-index of 16 and an i10-index of 24. For a full list of her publications, please see Dr. Liu's Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rAGt1VsAAAAJ&hl=en.

  • Li Liu, Shefali Oza, Daniel Hogan, Jamie Perin, Igor Rudan, Joy E Lawn, Simon Cousens, Colin Mathers, Robert E Black. 2015. “Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2000–13, with projections to inform post-2015 priorities: an updated systematic analysis”. Lancet. 385:430-440. (IF: 45.217; citations: 353)
  • Li Liu, Hope L. Johnson, Simon Cousens, Jamie Perin, Susana Scott, Joy Lawn, Igor Rudan, Harry Campbell, Richard Cibulskis, Mengying Li, Colin Mathers, and Robert E. Black, for the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) of WHO and UNICEF. 2012. “Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000”. Lancet. 379: 2151-61. (IF: 45.217; citations: 1606; ranks number 9 among the 25 most cited Lancet articles published since 2011 based on Scopus, available at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-lancet/most-cited-articles/, accessed on April 22, 2016)
  • Li Liu, Mengying Li, Lirong Ju, Li Yang, Xiuqin Tan, Neff Walker, Jennifer Bryce, Harry Campbell, Robert E. Black, and Yan Guo. 2013. “Measuring coverage in MNCH: A validation study linking population survey derived coverage to maternal, newborn, and child health care records in rural China”. PLoS ONE 8(5): e60762. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060762. Available at: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0060762 (IF: 3.234; citations: 12)
  • Saifuddin Ahmed, Qingfeng Li, Li Liu, and Amy O. Tsui. 2012. “Maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use: an analysis of 172 countries”. Lancet. 380: 111-25. (IF: 45.127; citations: 215)
  • Li Liu, Rosanna Setse, Neil R Powe, and Wanda K Nicholson. 2013. “The Effect of Depression Symptoms and Social Support on Black-White Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Early Pregnancy: The Health Status in Pregnancy (HIP) Study”. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 13:125 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-13-125. Available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/13/125 (IF: 2.190; citations: 5)
  • PMA Plus
  • Reproductive trajectory, neighborhood dynamics and preterm birth

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