Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Jianghong Liu

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Biography

Dr. Liu is currently leading a team on several projects, both in the U.S. and internationally. As director of the NIH-funded China Jintan Child Health Project, Dr. Liu is following more than 1,000 children in Jintan city, China from pre-school into adolescence to understand the influence of exposure to environmental lead, nutrition, and psychosocial factors on their behavior.  Dr. Liu also leads the follow-up study of the original, Philadelphia’s Healthy Brain and Behavior Study which studied 450 community children in 2010, and continued following up recently to study early biological, environmental, and social factors on adolescent’s behavior development and health outcomes.

Publications

Interdisciplinary Approach from Undergraduate Pre-Health Students in Children's Health Educational Initiative-A Pilot Community Intervention

The importance of interprofessional training in healthcare to improve quality of care and health outcomes has been increasingly recognized. This pilot study used an interprofessional and interdisciplinary team of undergraduate prehealth students to set up a unique community partnership with a local elementary school in developing and implementing a... Read More»

Sophie R Zhao, Siyuan Cao, Patrice Lin, Jeffrey Yenor, Regina Lam, Ellen Chang and Jianghong Liu

Research Article: J Community Med Health Educ 2014, 4:266

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000266

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