Minxue  Shen, Ph.D., Professor in Xiangya School of Public Health at Central South University. Deputy Director of Department of Social Medicine and Health Management; Head of Public Health and Disease Cohort Platform, Furong Laboratory; Investigator in Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Skin Tumors and Psoriasis.

As a principal investigator, he contributed to the establishment of a large-scale prospective cohort of over 200,000 individuals from the general population. He investigated the epidemiological characteristics and disease burden of skin diseases in China, and uncovered environmental and behavioral factors, comorbidities, and preventive strategies for inflammatory skin diseases including psoriasis and eczema.

RESEARCH

Projects

l  NSFC General Program/Youth Program

l  Sub-project of National Key Research and Development Program

l  Sub-project of Major Project of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

l  Survey Project of Ministry of Education

l  Hunan Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund

l  Hunan Provincial Young Scientific and Technological Talents Program

Publications  In recent years, he published over 80 papers in journals including Eur Heart J, J Am Acad Dermatol, Br J Dermatol, Allergy, Environ Sci Technol, Int J Epidemiol, etc. Citations exceed 4,800 by sources including The Lancet, Nature Reviews, and WHO reports. Research evidence has been incorporated into multiple clinical guidelines and expert consensuses, including the Chinese Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psoriasis (2023), Chinese Dietary Management Guidelines for Psoriasis Patients (2023), and Guidelines for the Management of Chronic Pruritus (2024).

Impacts

l  2025: Contributed to The Lancet Commission on Skin Health

l  2024: Data adopted by the National Expert Committee on Ecological Environmental Benchmarks for formulating national benchmarks

l  2023: Data adopted by the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences to support the 14th Five-Year Plan for Environmental Health Work

l  2021: Report adopted by the Ministry of Education, leading to the inclusion of skin health in student physical fitness monitoring (pilot)

Awards & Honors

l  2021-2025: Stanford University World's Top 2% Scientists

l  2025: Hunan Preventive Medicine Association Outstanding Paper Award, First Prize

l  2023: Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, First Prize (4/15)

l  2023: Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology), First Prize (10/16)

l  2023: Hunan Provincial Natural Science Outstanding Paper Award, Second Prize

l  2023: Hunan Preventive Medicine Association Outstanding Paper Award, First Prize

l  2022: Hunan Preventive Medicine Science and Technology Award, First Prize (7/7)

l  2022: First Central South University Major Academic Progress Award (5/6)

l  2021: Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Award, First Prize (4/15)

l  2021: Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, Second Prize (4/9)

l  2020: Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize (8/12)

Journal Reviewer  Adv Sci, Allergy, Am J Clin Dermatol, Br J Dermatol, Br J Sports Med, EClinicalMedicine, Environ Int, Environ Pollut, Environ Res, J Am Acad Dermatol, J Affect Dis, J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol, J Invest Dermatol, JAAD Int, Phenomics, etc. 

TEACHING

Textbooks

l  Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Comprehensive Evaluation Methods and Medical Applications

l  Contributor: Public Health Policy and Management (Core textbook for the Ministry of Education's "101 Plan" in Public Health and Preventive Medicine)

l  Contributor: Health Economics (9th Edition of National Planning Textbook for Preventive Medicine Undergraduate Programs)

Courses

l  Undergraduate: Social Medicine, Health Management, Health Economics

l  Graduate: Frontiers and Advances in Public Health, Public Health Methodology, Advanced Biostatistics, Advanced Epidemiology, Introduction to Medical Social Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences