Zhi-Jie Zheng

Zhi-Jie “ZJ” Zheng leads the foundation’s China office, which works to develop and strengthen partnerships across China’s public, private, and nonprofit sectors to improve health and development outcomes in China and around the world.

ZJ’s decades-long commitment to global health and development has led him to leadership positions at top research institutions and universities in China and the U.S.

ZJ joined the foundation in 2021 from Peking University, where he held positions including K.C. Wong Distinguished Professor, chair of the Department of Global Health in the School of Public Health, and senior vice dean of the Institute for Global Health and Development. In these roles, he worked with a wide range of partners to launch high-impact programs and initiatives to promote cross-disciplinary global collaborations and cultivate next-generation leaders in global health and development.

He previously served as dean of the School of Public Health at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as supervisory medical officer and senior program director at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and as lead epidemiologist and section chief of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

ZJ has served in leadership roles with professional organizations including the Chinese Medical Association, Chinese Society of Public Health Physicians, Boao Global Health Forum, and the Chinese Global Health Network, and he sits on the advisory boards of several national and local entities in China.

ZJ earned his M.D. and an M.A. in biomedical ethics from Fudan University in Shanghai. He also has an MPH in health services research and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.