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Research interests

Bai is specialised in the development and evaluation of complex health interventions in LMICs. She has co-authored with policy makers from 46 countries, led multi-nation, inter-discipline research projects to generate impactful scientific outputs used by international bodies such as WHO, United Nations, World Obesity Federation, Asian Development Bank, the State Council of China and Switzerland Federal Food Safety Office. She has a track record of leading international advocacy and methodological innovations of methods rooted in system science. Bai's contributions to global health and behavioural medicine have been recognised by prestigious awards from the ISBNPA, The Lancet, UKSBM. Recently, Bai won the 2024 Practice Leadership Award from the Sedentary Behavioural Research Network (SBRN). Bai leads the City Futures Theme at the Cabot Institute for the Environment.

  • Systems approach to develop, evaluate and implement population-level interventions to tackle global challenges (e.g. obesity, undernutrition and other diet-related chronic diseases)
  • Global syndemic (malnutrition in all its forms and climate change)
  • Regulatory interventions on sedentary behaviour
  • Informal child care (e.g. role of grandparents) and childhood obesity
  • Determinants and prevention of childhood obesity
  • Mixed-methods, qualitative research
  • Randomised controlled trial
  • Process evaluation of interventions

External positions

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

1 Oct 2021 → …

Visiting Fellowship, Deakin University Global Obesity Centre

Visiting Professor, Guangxi Medical University

Research Groups and Themes

  • Cabot Institute City Futures Research
  • Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
  • Cabot Institute Food Security Research
  • Cabot Institute Water Research

Keywords

  • Global health, Childhood obesity, Malnutrition in all its form, Double burden of malnutrition, Systems science, Grandparents, Informal child care, China, Southeast Asia, Public Health, Low and middle income countries

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