Dr Fangzhou Xu

Dr Fangzhou Xu

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Fangzhou Xu is a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. He is currently working on UoB-Guangzhou collaborative research projects focusing on healthy aging and clinical trials led by Professor KK Cheng.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 2022
  • MSc in Economics, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2017
  • BSc in Banking and Finance, Bangor University, 2016

Biography

Fangzhou joined the Department of Applied Health Sciences as a Research Fellow in January 2023. Previously, he completed his undergraduate studies in Economics in 2016, funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), and received a MSc degree in Economics from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 2017.

After a year of working in the financial sector as a macroeconomic analyst, Fangzhou returned to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to pursue a PhD. With funding from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Global Challenges Scholarship Committee (GC), he worked on an interdisciplinary collaborative research project in Economics and Health Economics and completed his PhD in 2022.

Research

Research interests:

Economic Psychology, Applied Microeconomics, Health Econometrics, Economic Evaluation in Public Health and Epidemiology

Current projects:

Fangzhou is currently working closely with clinical and research teams in Guangzhou on a healthy aging cohort and clinical trials.

Fangzhou is also working on well-being evaluations of inflation using consumer price indices and online user-generated data.

Publications

Guan N, Guariglia A, Moore P, Xu F, Al-Janabi H (2022) Financial stress and depression in adults: A systematic review. PLoS ONE 17(2)