Guogui Huang

Guogui Huang is an early-career researcher in demography and population health. He earned his first PhD in Demography from Peking University in China in 2020, and another PhD in Demography/Management from Macquarie University in the same year under a Cotutelle program. Upon graduation, he was honoured with the Outstanding Graduate Award from Peking University, akin to a University Medal, for his exemplary performance. Since 2021, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University, based at the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research (CHSSR). Prior to this, he held the position of Research Fellow at the Centre for Workforce Futures at Macquarie University Business School from 2019 to 2021.

Guogui’s main research interests have been population ageing and its socioeconomic consequences, ageing and wellbeing, aged care provision, quality of life and elderly health improvement. He is particularly interested in ageing and acculturation, health inequality and healthy life expectancy among different migrant groups. He has published 34 academic journal articles (28 first-authored), including such journals as Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, SSM-Population Health, Scientific Reports, BMC geriatrics, and Population Studies. He has successfully secured >$1.5 million research funding including the project entitled ‘Leveraging informatics to optimise pharmacist-led medication reviews in residential aged care to improve outcomes and cost-effectiveness: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial’. His recent works regarding the impact of COVID-19 on mortality have garnered significant attention from various media outlets, including Radio Canada, News Medical Life Science, and Aftenposten.