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Professor Feng J He, PhD

Feng J

Professor of Global Health Research

Centre: Centre for Public Health & Policy

Email: f.he@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7882 6266

Profile

I qualified as a physician in China and spent two years in clinical practice before undertaking postgraduate training in cardiovascular epidemiology. I then worked for several years on cardiovascular disease prevention projects in China.

In 1996, I moved to the UK and joined the Blood Pressure Unit at St George's University of London. I completed my PhD in 2002 and have since conducted research on the role of dietary salt and potassium intake, as well as fruit and vegetable consumption, in blood pressure regulation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

In 2009, I joined the Wolfson Institute of Population Health at Queen Mary University of London. I have continued my work on salt reduction and expanded my research to several low- and middle-income countries, particularly China and Malaysia, focusing on the development, implementation, and evaluation of population-based strategies to reduce salt intake and prevent non-communicable diseases.

Research

Research Interests:

  • The role of dietary salt and potassium intake in blood pressure regulation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease and other non-communicable diseases.
  • The development, implementation, and evaluation of population-level interventions to reduce salt intake, particularly in low- and middle-income countries such as China and Malaysia.

Publications

Please click through to see a complete list of Feng's publications.

Featured publications

  1.    Zhang P, Li Y, Li Y, Luo R, Guo H, Li L, Wang N, Mao T, Wang L, Xie G, Yu L, He FJ. Scalability of mHealth-based school health education for salt reduction: A synthesis of trial and real-world data. Public Health 2026;250:106057.
  2. He FJ, Zhang P, Luo R, Li Y, Sun Y, Chen F, Zhao Y, Zhao W, Li D, Chen H, Wu T, Yao J, Lou C, Zhou S, Dong L, Liu Y, Li X, He J, Wang C, Tan M, Song J, MacGregor GA. App based education programme to reduce salt intake (AppSalt) in schoolchildren and their families in China: parallel, cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2022;376:e066982.
  3. Ma Y, He FJ, Sun Q, Yuan C, Kieneker LM, Curhan GC, MacGregor GA, Bakker SJL, Campbell NRC, Wang M, Rimm EB, Manson JE, Willett WC, Hofman A, Gansevoort RT, Cook NR, Hu FB.  24-Hour Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion and Cardiovascular Risk.  N Engl J Med. 2022;386:252-263.
  4. He FJ, Tan M, Ma Y, MacGregor GA. Salt Reduction to Prevent Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020;75:632-647
  5. Huang L, Trieu K, Yoshimura S, Neal B, Woodward M, Campbell NRC, Li Q, Lackland DT, Leung AA, Anderson CAM, MacGregor GA, He FJ. Effect of dose and duration of reduction in dietary sodium on blood pressure levels: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials. BMJ  2020;368:m315.

Supervision

Name: Sonia Pombo-Rodrigues

Funding: Blood Pressure Research Trust

Project title: Assessing the diets of children in Tower Hamlets: A cross-sectional study of nutrient intake and nutritional quality of food and drink

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