Biography

Professor Yueqin HUANG got her medical degrees of Bachelor of Medicine, Master of Medicine, and PhD from Peking University. She is professor of psychiatric epidemiology and director of the Division of Social Psychiatry and Behavioural Medicine in Institute of Mental Health/Sixth Hospital of Peking University, and is honorary professor of the University of Hong Kong. She is vice-president of China Disabled Persons’ Federation, and president of Society of Crisis Intervention of Chinese Association of Mental Health. She also works as the president of Chinese Mental Health Journal. She is the principal investigator of a series of research projects and international collaborations including World Mental Health Survey and 10/66 Dementia Study, and recently dedicated to the national survey on mental disorders in China, and became the member of Global Health Commission of the Lancet, involving in international mental health promotion. She has worked as the chair of Commission of Health and Function of Rehabilitation International since 2016 and committed herself to study on mental rehabilitation. Meantime, she is fellow of World Academy of Art and Science and international fellow of American Psychiatry Association. She has published 332 papers including 170 first-author and correspondent-author papers, and is editor-in-Chief of seven books.