Professor
Columbia Univerisity
Guohua Li, MD, DrPH is the Finster Professor and the founding director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia University. He received his medical degree from Beijing Medical University and his doctoral and post-doctoral training in injury epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Dr Li is interested in population-based, injury-related, and policy-oriented studies that encompass innovative methodology and complex data systems. He has published extensively in the field of injury epidemiology and prevention and is credited with developing the decomposition equation linking injury mortality to case fatality, incidence density and exposure prevalence, and the FIA Score for predicting fatality in aviation crashes. He also made seminal contributions to the development of the multiphase approach to age-period-cohort modeling, a semi-parametric technique for estimating cohort effects in contingency table data. Dr Li is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize and the John Paul Stapp Award from the Aerospace Medical Association.