BIO
Professor Xianhong Li is one of the earliest nurses to earn a PhD degree as a full time doctoral student in China. Her Research focuses on health promotion among vulnerable populations, especially on social science and behavioral intervention for HIV high risk popualtins and children with illnesses. Dr.Li started her research in HIV/AIDS areas since 2005. She received training on research methodology in Yale University from 2007-2008, and also Unveristy of California in Los Angeles from 2014-2015 and 2016-2017. She is the PIs for more than 10 international, national, and local research projects, including funding from National Institute of Health in United States, National Nature Science Foundation, and China National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, to develop interventions that improve medication adherence, reduce stigma and prevent HIV. She is leading a team on composing pictures books for children with illnesses to gain knowledge, coping skills and encourage to get through the disease. Currently two of the pictures books has been published. She has published more than 80 academic papers, and 20 papers are indexed in SCI. She is the reviewers for the International Journal of Nursing Studies, the Journal of Nursing & Health Sciences, Plos One, Chinese Journal of HIV/AIDS, and Chinese General Medicine. Currently she is the research committee member of the Association of Chinese nurses; Vice director of Health Education committee, Hunan Association of Chinese nurses; Executive director of Hunan Provincial Research Center for Women and Children Health; and Editorial board member of Chinese Journal of AIDS & STD. Her researches have gain two prizes awarded by Hunan Provincial Ministriy of Science and Technology.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2014 – 2017 Central South University, Changsha, China, Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Law
2016 – 2017 University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA, Sccholar
2014 – 2015 University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA, Sccholar
2005 – 2010 Central South University, Changsha, China, PhD in Nursing
2007 – 2008 Yale University, New Haven, USA, Joint doctoral student in Nursing
2000 – 2005 Central South University, Changsha, China, Bachelor of Medicine
AWARDS & HONORS
2019 Hunan Provincial Nature Sicence Award, 3rd prize Hunan Provincial Ministry of Science and Technology
2018 Award for “Young Key Scholars of Hunan Province.”Hunan Provincial Ministry of Education
2011 Excellent Dissertation Award Central South University.
2010 “The strategy and application of HIV/AIDS prevention and control” received the 3rd prize of the 2010 Science and Technology Progress Awards Hunan Provincial Ministry of Science and Technology
2009 Award winner of the Ray Wu Prize for Excellent Doctoral Students in Life Science from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore (10 winners in total each year, and I am the only one from the nursing area). The Rui Wu Memorial Committee
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
01/2021 – 12/2024 Effectiveness and Mechanism of Metaphor Theory-based Intervention on HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction among Young MSM. General Grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 450,000.
08/2020 – 07/2022 Developing efficient intervention technologies to reduce stigma-related stress, mental health problems, and HIV risk among young Chinese MSM. Funded by R 21 from the National Institute of Health in USA. Role: CO-Principal Investigator. $246,845
11/2020 -10/2022 Evidence-based nursing leadership. An education grant from Finland. Role: CO-Principal Investigator in CSU.
6/2019 – 6/2021 Development of a series of “picture books” to be used for health education among children with chronic illnesses. Funded by Hunan Ministry of Technology. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB:100,000
8/2015 -2/2019 Susceptibility to HIV and quality of life among women who have sex with MSM in China. Funded by the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB:200,000
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (*Corresponding author)
1. Pan, S., Li, X., Shen, Y., Chen, J., & Koniak-Griffin, D. (2020). Reframing the meaning of life and professional values: A theoretical framework of facilitating professional care for terminally ill patients. Nursing & Health Sciences. Advance online publication.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12792
2. Zhang, C., Li, X., Heilemann, M. V., Chen, X., Wang, H., & Koniak-Griffin, D. (2020). Facilitators and Barriers of HIV Self-Testing Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Qualitative Study. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. Advance online publication.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/jnc.0000000000000218
3. Zhang, C., Koniak-Griffin, D., Qian, H. Z., Goldsamt, L. A., Wang, H., Brecht, M. L., & Li, X. (2020). Impact of providing free HIV self-testing kits on frequency of testing among men who have sex with men and their sexual partners in China: A randomized controlled trial. PLoS Med, 17(10), e1003365. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003365
4. Yan, F., Shi, C. X., Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Williams, A. B., & Li, X. (2020). "I'll Change His Sexual Orientation, I Don't Think About HIV": A Qualitative Study to Explore Attitudes, Behaviors, and Experiences Among Wives of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Mainland China. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care, 31(4), 428-438.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/jnc.0000000000000168
5. Yan, F., Tang, S., Goldsamt, L., Wang, H., Chen, J., & Li, X. (2020). Interrelationships Between Intimate Partner Violence, Coping Style, Depression, and Quality of Life Among the Regular Female Sexual Partners of Men Who Have Sex With Men. J Interpers Violence. Advance online publication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520917519
6. Chi, Y., Huang, D., Pachankis, J., Valimaki, M., Shen, Y., & Li, X. (2020). Internalized Sexual Minority Stigma is Associated With HIV Testing Behavior Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Advance online publication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/jnc.0000000000000205
7. Pan, S., Sun, S., Li, X., Chen, J., Xiong, Y., He, Y., & Pachankis, J. E. (2020). A pilot cultural adaptation of LGB-affirmative CBT for young Chinese sexual minority men's mental and sexual health. Psychotherapy (Chic). Advance online publication. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000318
8. Wu, W., Yan, X., Zhang, X., Goldsamt, L., Chi, Y., Huang, D., & Li, X. (2020). Potential HIV transmission risk among spouses: marriage intention and expected extramarital male-to-male sex among single men who have sex with men in Hunan, China. Sex Transm Infect, 96(2), 151-156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2018-053906
9. Li, X., Li, L., Wang, H., Fennie, K. P., Chen, J., & Williams, A. B. (2015). Mediation analysis of health-related quality of life among people living with HIV infection in China. Nurs Health Sci, 17(2), 250-256. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12181
10. Li, X., Wang, H., He, G., Fennie, K., & Williams, A. B. (2012). Shadow on my heart: a culturally grounded concept of HIV stigma among chinese injection drug users. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care, 23(1), 52-62. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jana.2011.07.002
BOOK
Li, X. (2018). Associate Chief Editor. Practice of Nursing. Beijing: People’s Medical Publishing House. ISBN: 978-7-1172-26547
Li, X. (2019). Chapter Contributor and Translator. Teaching in Nursing. Beijing: Peking University Medical Publishing House. ISBN: 978-7-565-91971-8
Li, X. (2018). Chapter Contributor. Advanced Nursing Research (for graduate students). Beijing: People’s Medical Publishing House. ISBN: 978-7-1172-5984-2
Li, X. (2017). Associate Chief Editor. Introduction to Nursing (for undergraduate students). Nanjing: Nanjing University Publishing House. ISBN: 978-7-305-12603-1
Li, X. (2018). Chief Editor. Nursing Research (for online bachelor’s degree candidates). Changsha: Central South University Publishing House. ISBN: 978-7-5487-3084-2
