Adjunct Associate Professor Hui Yang

Bachelor of Medicine (Peking University), PhD (La Trobe University, 2005)

Telephone: +61 4 18188319
Email: hui.yang@monash.edu

Profile

Adjunct Associate Professor, Dr Hui Yang has been senior research fellow of the Department of General Practice at Monash since 2006. He has medical degree of Peking University, focusing in public health, and trained in John Hopkins University in areas of public health and population studies. His PhD study explored health information system functioned in rational health planning process of China.

Dr Yang has published 280 articles in Chinese and international journals. He has wide range of research interests including primary care, general practice, healthy ageing and quality of care. Hui is also the editor-in-chief of the journal of Chinese General Practice, deputy chief editor of the journal of Family Medicine and Health Services, and editorial committee member of Chinese Journal of Health Quality Management. During the last 12 years he has been involved in GP training and international training cooperation. One of the training programs is a collaboration between with Shenzhen, over 260 Chinese primary care doctors completed their training at Monash University. He also led programs of textbook translation; a number of Australian general practice textbooks translated into Chinese language.

Hui previously held a professor position and executive head of health policy and management at Peking University. He worked in the University for 17 years, has led and participated in a number of national level initiatives in China. These include, national health service research, rural primary healthcare planning, finance and evaluation, occupational health intervention in small-scale township enterprises, health promotion on non-communicable disease, management of maternal and child care, regional health resource planning, ageing population and healthcare utilisation and the scope and role of private medical practices in China.

He won Outstanding Alumnus of Peking University Heath Science Centre and the Sir John Monash Award 2019.