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This five-day open-enrollment program invites you to explore the intersection of global health and environmental policy — and how these two fields work together to address some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges. By integrating Duke Kunshan University’s Master of Science in Global Health (GH) and international Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) programs, the course offers you an immersive learning experience that connects human health, environment, and sustainable policy design.
In the first two days, you’ll dive into the world of global health—exploring how public health systems work, what drives health equity, and how climate change is reshaping human well-being. Through an interdisciplinary lens, you’ll uncover the dynamic and complex links between health and the environment. In the following two days, the focus shifts to environmental policy, where you’ll engage with pressing topics like environmental governance, environmental pollution, and innovative strategies for building a sustainable future.
Through interactive lectures, hands-on workshops, and team-based leadership projects, you will apply what you learn to real-world cases at the intersection of health and environment. By the end of the program, you’ll work with your peers to develop innovative policy solutions and experience the power of interdisciplinary collaboration in shaping a sustainable future.
Currently Professor (with tenure) of global health and the Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center of Duke Kunshan University in China since July 2014. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center and Director of the China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, a large network of 5 international academic institutions and 7 Chinese institutions dedicated to combat NCDs in China. She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Peking University, a Master of Public Health degree and a doctoral degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her main areas of research are chronic disease prevention and control (hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes in particular), healthy aging, and innovation in translational health systems and services research and implementation science. She is the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on research grants totaling more than 10 million US dollars. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers some of which in leading medical journals such as JAMA, Lancet, Circulation, and BMJ. Her Scopus citation h-index is 30, Google Scholar h-index, 48, and i10-index, 77. She also provides advice and consultancy to national governments and international organizations.
Dr. Chenkai Wu is an Associate Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). Prior to joining DKU, he was a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at New York Medical College. Dr. Wu has a B.S. degree in Psychology from Zhejiang University and a M.S. in Human Development and Family Sciences, an M.P.H. in Biostatistics, and a Ph.D. in Public Health from Oregon State University. His main research interests include prevention of cardiovascular disease, frailty, and disability as well as promotion of healthy aging and longevity with three foci: (1) measurements, epidemiology, and clinical implications of frailty, (2) quantification and determinants of healthy aging and longevity, and (3) traditional and novel risk factors for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Dr. Wu has published extensively in the fields of epidemiology, gerontology, and cardiovascular disease. His work has been featured in major national and international media, including the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and National Public Radio.
Dr. Jingbo Cui is a tenured Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Division of Social Sciences, Co-Director at the Environmental Research Center, and Director of Graduate Studies for the International Master of Environmental Policy (iMEP) program at Duke Kunshan University, Adjunct Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Economics and Management at Wuhan University. Dr. Cui’s research centers on Environmental Economics, the Economics of Innovation, and the Economics of Climate Change. His recent research has delved into intriguing topics such as the drivers and obstacles to low-carbon innovation, the economic and environmental impacts of China’s climate policy and risk. His scholarly contributions have been published in top-tier academic journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Regional Science, The World Economy, and Energy Economics. He has served as a referee for leading journals in Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Economics of Innovation (i.e., JEEM, AJAE, JAERE, Nature Climate Change, and Research Policy), as Associate Editor for the Environment and Development Economics, and a member of the editorial council in JAERE. His research projects have been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program, Junior Program, and Urgent Program) and the Jiangsu Qinglan Project.
Dr. Wang’s research focuses on environmental economic and health economics. She studies questions related to environmental regulations, firm behavior, and health impacts of pollution. Her current projects analyze pollution exposure inequity, location decisions of firms and families in response to environmental regulations and public pressure, and effect of environmental regulation on various health outcomes. She has several papers published in leading academic journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal Environmental Economics and Management, the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, and Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics.
Xiao holds a B.A. in accounting from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, an M.A in Economics from North Carolina State University, and receives her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. She worked in Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral researcher from 2019 to 2021. Before joining DKU, she has worked as an assistant professor of economic at Hunan University.
Email: DKU-GSI@dukekunshan.edu.cn
