Advisory Board and Editors Epidemiology
Steven YC Tong
Infectious diseases physician at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Co-head Translational and Clinical Research and Co-head Indigenous Health at Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne. Deputy Chair of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network.
Shinya Tsuzuki
Shinya Tsuzuki is a researcher at National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan. Currently he leads several research projects related to infectious disease epidemiology, such as disease burden of antimicrobial resistance, COVID-19 epidemics, quantitative evaluation of vaccination policy in Japan, and so forth.
Rohit Upadhyay
Dr. Rohit Upadhyay is a Research Scientist in the School of Medicine at Tulane University.
He has skills and expertise in the following areas; Cancer Genetics, Cell and Molecular biology, Kidney Injury, Pharmacology, and Molecular mechanisms of complex diseases.
Shibiao Wan
Dr. Shibiao Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and the Co-Director for the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) PhD Program at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also an Assistant Professor (courtesy) in the Department of Biostatistics at UNMC.
With more than 15 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >50 articles in top-tiered journals such as Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals such as Briefings in Functional Genomics, Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals including Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes.
Dr Wan is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >70 prestigious journals including Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Science Advances, Nucleic Acids Research, Advanced Science, Cancer Research, Genome Biology, and Genome Medicine. Dr. Wan has received a number of accolades including the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award in 2025 by Springer Nature, the New Investigator Award in 2024 by UNMC, the FIRST Award in 2023 by Nebraska EPSCoR, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2022 by HK PolyU as well as the Global Peer Review Awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM and an IEEE Senior Member.
Julia Warnberg
Dr. Julia Warnberg, with a degree in Nutrition (2001) and a PhD in Medicine (2006), currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of Málaga's School of Health Sciences.
She is the coordinator of the research group EpiPHAAN (Epidemiology, Physical Activity, and Nutrition), which includes three senior researchers, three collaborating senior researchers, three postdoc researchers, and four doctoral candidates. The group also hosts postdoc researchers for research stays.
The group's research focus is primarily on conducting clinical trials related to the Mediterranean Diet and promoting physical activity. Additionally, they study the lifestyles of children and adolescents, particularly in the context of obesity, physical activity, and nutrition. The group is actively involved in developing methods and analyzing motion sensor data (accelerometers) for assessing physical activity.
Bernhard Wernly
Dr Bernhard Wernly is a Physician-scientist at the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzberg, Austria. He is trained in cardiology and intensive care medicine, MD, PhD and currently doing a Master in Public Health.
Anita E Wluka
Anita is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, and a Clinical Rheumatologist, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.
Recognised as a world-leader in osteoarthritis research, Anita is based at The Alfred hospital where she combines research with clinical practice as a physician. Her work has contributed to guidelines for managing hip and knee osteoarthritis developed through the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners National Health and Medical Research Council.
Wei Xu
Dr. Wei Xu received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of Toronto. He is currently a scientist and principle biostatistician in Princess Margaret Hospital on clinical research of cancer diseases. He is a faculty member at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics. Dr. Xu's research interests are statistical genetics and clinical trial design and analysis. He is the author or co-author of over 100 publications in peer-review journals.
Jinming Yu
RESEARCH WORK
2011-Present: Vice Director, Office for Medical planning and science research, Fudan University
2010-Present: Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2007-2015: Director of Department of Health education
Vice-Director of Clinical Research Institute, School of Public Health, Fudan University
Director of Fudan University, School of Public Health, VitalStrategic Evidence-based Medicine Research Center
2007-2009: Vice-Director of Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University
2000-2007: Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Director of Department of Preventive Medicine
Director of Center for Medical calculation
Faculty of medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai PRC
1998-2000: Associate professor of Epidemiology
Faculty of medicine, Shanghai Tiedao University, Shanghai PRC
1995-1996, 1998: Cooperative research scholar
Department of public health
Faculty of medicine
Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam NL
Bao-Liang Zhong
Dr. Bao-Liang Zhong is an associate professor in psychiatry, and currently working in Wuhan Mental Health Center. He is also the deputy director of the Research Center for Psychological and Health Sciences, China University of Geosciences. His research interest includes mood disorders and mental health services.
Jiayan Zhou
Jiayan Zhou is a Senior Computational Bioinformatician at Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (PAVIR). He was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine, specializing in Cardiovascular Medicine, Population Genetics, and Molecular Biology. He is a computational geneticist with a special interest in advancing statistical methodologies and software frameworks tailored for integrating multi-omics data, aimed at elucidating novel therapeutic avenues for various human diseases. He also actively explores the intersection of AI and healthcare, leveraging AI models to address intricate challenges in healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.