In 1999, I graduated from Beijing Medical University (now is Peking University Health Science Center) with a bachelor's degree in preventive medicine. In 2004, I obtained a master's degree in the Department of Women and Children and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center and received my Ph.D. in the same department in 2010. I studied in Lund University (2013-2014) and Stanford University (2017) as a visiting scholar.

I have been working as the director of Institute of Child and Adolescent Health since 2022, and I am taking the role of director regarding to the Center for Child and Adolescent/School Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention at the same time. I am taking the key positions in several academic institutions and journals. In addition to serving the development of my discipline and academic innovation, I am also committed to multidisciplinary development and cooperation, promoting the association between academia and industry, and expanding the influence of child and adolescent health concepts in the whole field, such as the deputy director of School Health Standards Committee of National Health Standards’ Committee, deputy director of Student’s Health Education Branch of Chinese Association for Student Nutrition and Health Promotion, associate editor-in-chief of the academic founding journal titled future, as well as a member of the editorial board of China School Health etc.

The main focuses include the social determinants of child and adolescent health and development, students’ Constitution and Health (based on CNSSCH) and its inequality, and the implementation research of common diseases interventions among children and adolescents。

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China: A study on interference mechanism of kisspeptin among ALAN exposure and early puberty development, 2023-2026.

2. China Medical Board program: Battling China’s Childhood Myopia Epidemic: A pragmatic prevention strategy using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, 2022-2024.

3. Capital’s Funds for Health Improvement and Research (Key grant): Construction and Promotion of a Comprehensive Demonstration Area for Myopia and Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Beijing Based on the RE-AIM Framework, 2022-2024.

4. Natural Science Foundation of Beijing: A nested case-control study on the effect of phenotype-mediated ALAN exposure on different types of metabolic obesity in children, 2022-2024.

5. Key Project of Beijing Municipal Education Science Planning Project (Teaching grant): Research on Physical Fitness Promotion and Barrier Factors of Primary and Secondary School Students in Beijing under the Comprehensive Framework of Implementation Research, 2022-2025.

6. Humanities and Social Science Planning Fund Project, Ministry of Education: Development of Physical Activity Guidelines for Students under the Perspective of "Healthy China 2030" - Based on Big Data Analysis and Qualitative Research, 2019 -2021.

7. UNICEF: Study on Assessment of Priority Areas, Strategies, Interventions and Indicators for Adolescent Health in China, 2019-2020.

8. General Administration of Sports of China: Integration and empirical study of the new technology package for student fitness guidance, 2017-2018.

9. National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund: A comparative study of 30-year growth long-term trend patterns of students from 18 ethnic minorities in China under social environmental changes, 2013-2016.

10. New Teacher Fund of the Ministry of Education: Analysis of Changes in Trends of Health Risk Behavior of Chinese Adolescents and its Early Warning Model, 2011-2013.

1. Chen TJ, Dong B, Dong Y, Li J, Ma Y, Liu D, Zhang Y, Xing Y, Zheng Y, Luo X, Tao F, Ding Y, Hu P, Zou Z, Pan B, Tang P, Luo D, Liu Y, Li L, Li GN, Tian X, Huang X, Song Y*, Ma J*, Sawyer SM. Matching actions to needs: shifting policy responses to the changing health needs of Chinese children and adolescents. Lancet. 2024;403(10438):1808-1820.

2. Liu YF, Wang YX, Xing YF, Wolters M, Shi D, Zhang PP, Dang JJ, Chen ZY, Cai S, Wang YQ, Liu a JY, Wang XX, Zhou HY, Xu M, Guo LP, Li YY, Song JY, Li J, Dong YH, Cui YC, Hu PJ, Hebestreit Antje, Wang HJ,Li L, Ma J, Yeo YH, Wang H*, Song Y*. Establish a noninvasive model to screen metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in children aged 6–14 years in China and its applications in high-obesity-risk countries and regions. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2024: 101150.

3. Luo D, Ma N, Liu Y, Yan X, Ma J*, Song Y*, Patton GC, Sawyer SM. Long-term trends and urban-rural disparities in the physical growth of children and adolescents in China: an analysis of five national school surveys over three decades. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2023,7(11):762-772.

4. Ma N, Chen S, Kong Y, Chen Z, Geldsetzer P, Zeng H, Wu L, Wehrmeister FC, Lu C, Subramanian SV, Song Y*, Li Z*. Prevalence and changes of intimate partner violence against women aged 15 to 49 years in 53 low-income and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2021: a secondary analysis of population-based surveys. Lancet Glob Health. 2023;11(12):e1863-e1873.

5. Yan X, Hu P*, Ma N, Luo D, Zhang J, Wang J, Dong Y, Xing Y, Song Y*, Ma J, Patton GC, Sawyer SM. Coverage of school health monitoring systems in China: a large national cross-sectional survey. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2022,19:100332.

6. Dong Y, Gao D, Li Y, Yang Z, Wang X, Chen M, Wang Z, Song Y*, Zou Z*, Ma J. Effect of childhood phthalates exposure on the risk of overweight and obesity: A nested case-control study in China. Environ Int. 2022,158:106886.

7. Luo D, Yan X, Xu R, Zhang J, Shi X, Ma J*, Song Y*, Patton GC, Sawyer SM. Chinese trends in adolescent marriage and fertility between 1990 and 2015: a systematic synthesis of national and subnational population data. Lancet Glob Health. 2020,8(7):e954-e964.

8. Dong Y, Lau PWC, Dong B, Zou Z, Yang Y, Wen B, Ma Y, Hu P, Song Y*, Ma J*, Sawyer SM, Patton GC. Trends in physical fitness, growth, and nutritional status of Chinese children and adolescents: a retrospective analysis of 1.5 million students from six successive national surveys between 1985 and 2014. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2019,3(12):871-880.

9. Jan C, Xu R, Luo D, Xiong X, Song Y*, Ma J*, Stafford RS. Association of Visual Impairment With Economic Development Among Chinese Schoolchildren. JAMA Pediatr. 2019, 173(7):e190914.

10. Dong Y, Jan C, Ma Y, Dong B, Zou Z, Yang Y, Xu R, Song Y*, Ma J*, Sawyer SM, Patton GC. Economic development and the nutritional status of Chinese school-aged children and adolescents from 1995 to 2014: an analysis of five successive national surveys. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2019,7(4): 288-299.