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Dr. Guo is currently an Associate Professor with Tenure, Research Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the Institute of Population Research, Peking University. She also serves as Deputy Director of the China Center on Population Health and Development at Peking University, and is a recipient of the National High-Level Young Talent Program. She earned her Doctor of Law degree from Peking University in 2016. In 2011, she obtained a Bachelor of Medicine degree and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Peking University. Her research areas include demography and life-course research, population health, health economy, policy and program evaluation, environmental health, and health research method. Dr. Guo is the principal investigator of several grants, including those from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of China and the Beijing Municipal Social Science Foundation. She serves as the Secretary-general of the Disability Prevention and Control Committee of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and a member of the Committee on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Chinese Association of Health Promotion and Education. She has published over 150 academic papers in international and Chinese journals such as the Lancet Planetary Health, Science Bulletin, American Journal of Public Health, and others. She is a Youth Editorial Board Member of MedScience and Associate Editor of the International Journal for Equity in Health. She also serves as a reviewer for numerous prestigious journals, including The Lancet Regional Health, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and BMJ Public Health, among others.
Contact
Add: Economic Building 230, Peking University; E-mail: chaoguo@pku.edu.cn
Research fields
Demography; Population health; Health economy; Policy and program evaluation; Environmental health; Pandemic and population health; Travel, migration and health; Health research method
Selected Publications

Ding R, Yuan D, Zhu X, Du Y, Guo C*. China’s universal two-child policy and depressive symptoms among women at childbearing age: a difference-in-difference analysis based on the China Family Panel Study. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2026; 35: e18.
He X, Wang M, Du Y, Ye Z, Yang Y, Guo C*. The long-term impact of adverse childhood experiences on later-life physical and psychological multimorbidity: A prospective cohort study of middle-aged and older adults in China. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2026;400:121169.
Zhu X, Du Y, Wang M, Guo C*. Military experience and depression: a prospective multi-cohort analysis across nations. Social Science & Medicine. 2025;381:118291.
Yuan D, Zhang T, Guo C.* Association of household carbon consumption with cardiovascular diseases: A multicohort study. Environmental Research. 2025;271:121075.
Guo C*, Yuan D, Tang H, Hu X, Lei Y. Impact of a pandemic shock on unmet medical needs of middle-aged and older adults in 10 countries. BMJ Health & Care Informatics 2024; 31(1): e100865.
Yuan D, Hu X, Zeng Y, Tang H, Guo C*. The early-stage impacts of shock events on adult sleep: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress and Health 2024; 40(4): e3385.
Hu X, Guo C*. Temporal trends and cohort variations of gender-specific major depressive disorders incidence in China: analysis based on the age-period-cohort-interaction model. General Psychiatry 2024; 37(4): e101479.
Guo C*, Hu X, Yuan D, Zeng Y, Yang P. The effect of COVID-19 on public confidence in the World Health Organization: a natural experiment among 40 countries. Globalization and Health 2022; 18(1): 77.
Guo C*, Hu X, Xu C, Zheng X*. Association between Olympic Games and children’s growth: evidence from China. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2022; 56(19): 1110-4.
Guo C*, Zheng X*. Prenatal exposure to the SARS epidemic emergency and risk of cognitive impairment in toddlers. Science Bulletin. 2021;66(21):2153-56.
Guo C, Zheng X*. Restoration of Population Disability Trajectory During Hundreds of Years — China, 1896–2006. China CDC Weekly 2021; 3(22): 468-71.
Guo C, Chen C, He P, Zhang L, Zheng X*. Risk of cognitive impairment in children after maternal exposure to the 1998 Yangtze River flood during pregnancy: analysis of data from China's second National Sample Survey on Disability. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2020; 4(11): e522-e9.
Guo C, He P, Song X, Zheng X*. Long-term effects of prenatal exposure to earthquake on adult schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry 2019; 215(6):730-735.
Guo C, Zheng X*. Health Challenges and Opportunities for an Aging China. American Journal of Public Health 2018; 108(7): 890-892.
Guo C, Wen X, Li N, Wang Z, Chen G, Zheng X*. Is Cigarette and Alcohol Use Associated With High-Risk Sexual Behaviors Among Youth in China? The Journal of Sexual Medicine 2017; 14(5): 659-65.
Guo C, Du W, Hu C, Zheng X*. Prevalence and factors associated with healthcare service use among Chinese elderly with disabilities. Journal of Public Health (Oxford, England) 2016; 38(3): e345-e51.