Research Team

The CHNS is coordinated by Barry Popkin of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina. The CHNS is a collaborative project of the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety (INFS), the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Dr. Fengying Zhai, Associate Director of the INFS, is the director of the Chinese group.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

Project manager:

Dr. Shufa Du, who formerly worked in China as manager of the CHNS data collection effort, manages the project for the UNC team.

Faculty:

• Dr. Linda Adair, Nutritionist
• Dr. John Akin, Economist and Co-Principal Investigator
• Dr. Margaret E. Bentley, Nutritional Anthropologist
• Dr. Jane D. Brown, Mass Communication
• Dr. William Dow, Economist [formerly at UNC]
• Dr. Barbara Entwisle, Sociologist
• Dr. David Guilkey, Economist and Co-Principal Investigator
• Dr. Gail Henderson, Medical Sociologist and Co-Principal Investigator
• Dr. Michelle Mendez, Nutritional Epidemiologist
• Dr. Thomas Mroz, Economist
• Dr. Xinshu Zhao, Mass Communication
• Dr. Namvar Zohoori, Nutritional Epidemiologist [formerly at UNC]

Programmers and Staff:

• Dan Blanchette, Programmer
• William Brown, Programmer
• Mariah Mantsun Cheng, Research Associate
• Lynnette Cook, Data Support
• Catherine Cross, Programmer/Analyst
• Bonita Cumbie, Data Support
• Frances Dancy, Administrative Director
• Lori Dwyer, Data Support
• Brian Frizzelle, Spatial Analyst
• Laura Henderson, Programmer
• Erika Jones, Data Support
• Laura Kline, WWW Programming and Implementation
• Peizhu Liu, Translator
• Michelle Lown, GIS Analyst
• Chris Mankoff, Spatial Analyst
• Amanda Monath, Programmer
• Sharon Nikfarjam, Data Support
• Jonathan Parkinson, Programmer
• Debbie Poplin, Programmer
• Pan Riggs, Data Support
• David Robinson, WWW Programming and Implementation
• Patricia Sikes, Data Support
• Tom Swasey, Graphic Design
• James Terry, Research Associate

Graduate Students:

• May Baydoun
• Jill Bouma
• Feinian Chen
• Jason Dietrich
• Colleen Doak
• Jim Doherty
• Xuguang Guo
• Paul Hutchinson
• Jian Hu
  
• Soowon Kim
• Peter Lance
• Zhiming Li
• Ying Liu
• Bing Lu
• Haijiang Ma
• Keri Monda
• Sahasporn Paeratakul
• Alexis Pezzulo
• Marie Richards
• Kristin Sandusky
• Tim Savage
• Susan Short
• Jodi Stookey
• Carrie Waller
• Youfa Wang
• Jipan Xie

Postdoctoral Scholars:

• Colin Bell
• Shufa Du

From the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety:

• Dr. Keyou Ge, Director Emeritus
• Dr. Fengying Zhai, Co-Principal Investigator and Deputy Director
• Dr. Ying Chang, Professor Emeritus, Nutritionist
• Dr. Daxun Jin, Professor Emeritus, Nutritionist
• Dr. Xiaoshu Chen, Professor and Director Emeritus, Nutritionist
• Qing Wang, Data Manager [formly at INFS]
  
• Wentao Yu, Research Associate
  
• Dr. Hai Lin, Research Fellow [formly at INFS]
  
• Dr. Bing Lu, Research Assosiate [formly at INFS]
  
• Ying Li, Research Fellow
  
• Wei Luo, Research Assistant [formly at INFS]
  
• Zhihong Wang, Research Fellow
  
• Hongfei Hao, Data Manager and Programmer
  
• Yuna He, Research Fellow
  
• Huijun Wang, Research Fellow
  

From the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention:

• Professor Chunming Chen (former President of the CCDC), Advisor
• Professor Shuigao Jin
• Professor Linmao Ma
• Jianmin Wang, Research Fellow [formly at CCDC]
  
• Juhua Luo, Research Fellow [formly at CCDC]