Dr. Guohua Li is the Mieczyslaw Finster Professor of Epidemiology and Anesthesiology and Director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia University Medical Center. His research focuses on population-based, injury-related, and policy-oriented studies that encompass novel epidemiological designs, innovative statistical techniques, and complex data systems. Dr. Li was credited with developing the decomposition method for quantifying the major contributing factors to injury mortality variations across population groups, geographic regions, and time periods, for which he was awarded the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize in 1999; and with developing the FIA score, a simple risk index for predicting fatality in aviation crashes, for which he received the John Paul Stapp Award from the Aerospace Medical Association in 2009. His academic achievements have been recognized by the Guggenheim Fellowship (2005) and the Excellence in Science Award of the American Public Health Association’s Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section (2015).
