Biography

Prof Liu is a Counselor of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and a Tenured Professor at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), where he serves as a Doctoral Supervisor in Epidemiology & Health Statistics and Health Policy & Management.
He served as the Executive Dean of the School of Health Policy and Management at PUMC (2020–2023) and the Dean of the School of Public Health at PUMC (2013–2020). Prior to his tenure in Beijing, he taught at Harvard University from 1993 to 2013, where he was one of the founding doctoral supervisors for the Health Systems program. He was also the Founding Director of the China Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health and established the US-China Health Summit in 2011.
He has served as a member of the UN Millennium Development Goals Advisory Committee and as a strategic advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and various Fortune Global 500 companies. His extensive public service roles include serving on the Expert Advisory Committee of the State Council Leading Group for Deepening Medical and Health System Reform (2nd and 3rd terms), the Expert Group for Non-Party Intellectuals of the Central United Front Work Department, and as Vice Chairman of the Health Promotion Guidance Committee of the National Health Commission. He also chairs the Chinese American Medical Professional Committee of the Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA) and the Healthcare Reform Subcommittee of the Expert Committee on Modern Hospital Management Capacity Building.
Since 1993, he has been deeply engaged in major policy research and strategic consulting for China's healthcare sector, playing a pivotal role in the research and drafting of the "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline and the Basic Healthcare and Health Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China.
A prolific scholar, he has edited 11 academic monographs and published over 400 papers in domestic and international journals. He is frequently named to Elsevier’s "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" list and is ranked among the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University for both "Career-Long Impact" and "Single-Year Impact."