Assistant professor at Fudan University School of Public Health
Dr. Di Liang is currently an assistant professor at Fudan University School of Public Health. In 2017-2019, she was a postdoctoral scholar at UCSD School of Medicine. Di received her Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from UCLA School of Public Health. Earlier, she received a Bachelor of Medicine in Preventive Medicine from Fudan University School of Public Health. As a health services researcher, her research focuses on evaluating policies and health services in the areas of mental health and substance use as well as integrated care for vulnerable populations. She is currently exploring how to integrate mental health services into maternal care and how to promote the integrated care model in rural China.
Representative publications:
Liang D, Bao Y, Wallace M, Grant I, Shi Y. Medical cannabis legalization and opioid prescriptions: evidence on US Medicaid enrollees during 1993-2014. Addiction. 2018 Nov;113(11):2060-2070. doi: 10.1111/add.14382.
Liang D, Mays VM, Hwang WC. Integrated mental health services in China: challenges and planning for the future. Health Policy Plan. 2018 Jan 1;33(1):107-122. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czx137.
Liang D, Mei L, Chen Y, Zhou P, Yang X, Huang J. Building a People-Centred Integrated Care Model in Urban China: A Qualitative Study of the Health Reform in Luohu. Int J Integr Care. 2020 Mar 16;20(1):9. doi: 10.5334/ijic.4673.
Liang D, Shi Y. The association between pain clinic laws and prescription opioid exposures: New evidence from multi-state comparisons. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Jan 1;206:107754. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107754. Epub 2019 Nov 21.