ProfRuoling Chen

Prof Ruoling Chen obtained his PhD at the University of Aberdeen in 1997, after studying medicine (MB) and a 3-year full-time postgraduate course for medical statistics (MSc) in China. Before joining the University of Wolverhampton as a Reader in 2009 Dr Chen worked at the Universities of Liverpool, Dundee and London as a lecturer and senior lecturer in medical statistics and epidemiology for 14 years. He has worked on epidemiology and public health for 30 years. Prof Chen has been involved in many large-scale cohort studies, eg, the MRC-ALPHA study for mental health in older people in Liverpool, the Scottish Heart Health Study and the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project, England & Wales. He has established a large-scale population-based cohort study of dementia and other chronic diseases in older people in six provinces in China. As PI and Co-I, Prof Chen has obtained competitive research grants of > £1 million in total from national and international sources (eg, the BUPA Foundation, Alzheimer’s Research, and EU-MSCA). Currently, Prof Chen He leads a research group of Population Health, which consists of academic staff and researchers, and supervises five PhD students to work on important topics in public health and epidemiology. He has published around 200 papers, with an H index of 40 (Google Scholar). Prof Chen is often invited to evaluate manuscripts and grant applications by prestigious journals and grant bodies such as UK MRC and NIHR. In August 2018 Professor Chen successfully organised the international conference of Global Health and Epidemiology in Wolverhampton, UK (https://bit.ly/2HnvLkW), attracting many delegates from different countries (e.g. America, Europe, China). He has been ranked as the World top 2% scientists.