Liang Xiaofeng, Professor of Medicine, is currently the Dean of Jinan University - Kangtai Vaccine Industry Research Institute, the Chair Professor of Jinan University, and the vice president of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association. He used to be the deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
He is the member of the World Health Organization Hepatitis Expert Advisory Committee (STAC), the vice chairman of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Life Sciences and Human Health (CCLH), a member of the National COVID-19 Expert Group, China, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Global Health (English), the vice president of CAST UN Consultative Committee on Life Science and Human Health, the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.
He has undertaken a number of scientific research work on the prevention and control of infectious diseases. As the first/corresponding author, he has published many academic papers on high impact journals such as the New England Journal and The Lancet.
He has won the Special Allowance of the State Council of China, the title of Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions by the Ministry of Health, the title of "Wu Jieping - Paul Janssen Medical Pharmaceutical Award". His research "Chinese first effective prevention and control and integrated innovative research on the H1N1 influenza pandemic" won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award.
