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
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]

Data Downloads

Thank you for your interest in the CHNS data. Before downloading data, you must register in the CHNS database. Your information will be used in two ways:

to document public interest in CHNS data
to create a CHNS mailing list (optional participation)

NOTE: Information you provide will be kept confidential, will only be accessible by project staff, and will never be shared, sold, rented, or given away to anyone.