Liang Wannian
梁萬年
Liang at the press conference of the State Council Information Office on 29 April 2022
Head, National Health Commission COVID Response Team
Personal details
BornJanuary 1961 (age 62–63)
Anhui, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materAnhui Medical University, Peking Union Medical College

Liang Wannian (simplified Chinese: 梁万年; traditional Chinese: 梁萬年; pinyin: Liáng Wànnián; born January 1961) is a Chinese epidemiologist, Executive Vice Dean at Tsinghua University's Vanke School of Public Health, and former lead of the Chinese National Health Commission's COVID-19 Response Expert Team.

Education and career

Liang obtained a Bachelor of Public Health from Anhui Medical University in 1983, Master of Epidemiology from Anhui Medical University in 1986, and Ph.D of Epidemiology and Health Statistics from Peking Union Medical College in 2003.[1]

COVID-19

Liang is a key architect of China's zero COVID strategy and has been a regular face at Chinese Government press conferences on the progress of containing the virus since 2020.[2]

Liang was team leader of the Chinese side of the joint expert team of WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2, which was later mired in controversy for its inconclusive results, dissolved, and regrouped as the Scientific Advisory Group for Origins of Novel Pathogens.[3][4][5]

In March 2022, Liang was dispatched to Hong Kong by the Central Government of China to help when a wave of Omicron infections surged out of control.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Wannian LIANG-清华大学-万科公共卫生与健康学院". vsph.tsinghua.edu.cn. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  2. ^ "Who is Liang Wannian, the man Beijing sent to help Hong Kong's Covid fight?". South China Morning Post. 2022-02-28. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  3. ^ "'Politics was always in the room.' WHO mission chief reflects on China trip seeking COVID-19's origin". www.science.org. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  4. ^ Adam Taylor (2021-10-13). "WHO announces new expert group to investigate origins of the coronavirus and other outbreaks". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  5. ^ Newey, Sarah; Nuki, Paul; Rigby, Jennifer (2021-07-16). "WHO proposes new pandemic origins inquiry team and calls for transparency from China". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  6. ^ Hui, Sophie. "Mainland expert sees HK getting upper hand in Covid battle soon". The Standard. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
Categories