04/12/2021

Henry Xiang, MD, MPH, PhD, MBA

Past President

Henry Xiang, MD, MPH, PhD, MBA. Dr. Xiang is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at The Ohio State University. He is the founding Director of the Center for Pediatric Trauma Research as well as the Research Core Director in the CDC funded Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Xiang directs the Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies Program at the NIH funded Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

Dr. Xiang has more than 30 years of experience in medical research and public health, and he has made significant contributions to the field of violence and injury research as well as translational and clinical research around the world. His primary research interests include injury and safety research in individuals with disabilities, trauma emergency health services research, violence and injury prevention in the developing world, causal inference methodology using existing large electronic health records, and the innovative application of emerging science and technology (e.g., virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and machine learning) in health and medicine. He has more than 240 peer-reviewed journal articles, 3 books (chapters), and has presented his research findings at conferences around the world. Dr. Xiang’s research has been continuously funded by AHRQ, HRSA, CDC, NIH, and the World Health Organization.

Funded by the National Institute of Health Fogarty International Center D43 training award, Dr. Henry Xiang and Dr. Lorann Stallones at the Colorado Injury Control Research Center trained 150 mid-career to senior level researchers in the People’s Republic of China from 2006-2012. Dr. Xiang’s research and mentoring efforts are a major contributor to the legitimacy of the violence and injury research and prevention science as his trainees/mentees have become leaders who went on to create injury research centers and the National Society for Injury Control in China. Through his collaborative efforts with other experts, Healthy People 2020, coordinated by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, officially established the reduction of injuries among individuals with disabilities as a key objective. When the World Health Organization and the World Bank released their first-ever World Report on Disability in 2011, its injury prevention recommendations were largely based on Dr. Xiang’s global research on violence and injury among individuals with disabilities. He chaired and hosted the 2007 1st SAVIR Annual Conference, 2013 Global Conference on Child Injury Prevention, and the 2018 Global Symposium of Innovation in Trauma Care and Research.

His pioneering and seminal work on innovative matching for estimating causal effects with multiple treatment arms provides a rigorous methodology for causal inference in clinical treatment assessment, public health intervention evaluation, and violence and injury prevention policies and regulations effectiveness comparison.

Dr. Xiang has received numerous awards, including the Goethe Foundation International Award for Excellence in Smoking Control Research by German Medical Association (1997); Outstanding Science Award (2011), Outstanding Mentor Award (2011), and Outstanding Team Award (2014) of the Abigail Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital; Outstanding Contribution to Public Health Award of Larimer County (1998); Outstanding Board of Directors Service Award of SAVIR (2009); Excellence in Science Award of APHA-ICEHS (2016); Joseph Tepas Award of Pediatric Trauma Society (2017); Distinguished International Engagement Award of the Ohio State University (2017), and Kate Granger Compassionate Care Award of HealthCare Information and Management Systems Society North American (2019).