Xu Xiong, MD, DrPH

Xu Xiong is a perinatal epidemiologist and an associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and an associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine at Tulane University. He received a medical degree from the Shanghai Medical University in China and was awarded a doctor of public health in epidemiology by the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. His area of expertise includes reproductive and perinatal epidemiology, survey research, and global public health evaluation. His main research interests are epidemiologic and clinical determinants and evaluation of maternal and child health, using systematic review or meta-analysis, survey, case-control, cohort and clinical trial approaches. He has extensive experience in epidemiological and clinical research. He has been a principal investigator (PI) and Co-PI for several national and international research projects. His current research focuses on global maternal and newborn health.