Publications
See also my Google Scholar, ORCID, and SSRN profiles.
Peer-reviewed articles & commentaries
Zhang, Q., & Fu, Y. (2026). Ensuring trustworthy AI assisted guideline development for clinical practice. npj Digital Medicine, 9(1), 661.
Zhang, Q. (2026). Do Negative Social Ties Accelerate Aging in Adults, or Does Aging Erode Social Ties? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 123(20), e2608036123.
Zhang, Q. (2026). Keep REMS focused on safety, not as a barrier to generics. Health Affairs.
Zhang, Q. (2026). Enhancing life-course analyses of financial disadvantage and depressive mood through longitudinal design and causal inference. Journal of Epidemiology.
Zhang, Q. (2025). Overcoming bias in a fall prevention program in resource-limited areas. JAMA.
Zhang, Q. (2025). Operationalizing distributional cost-effectiveness in genomic medicine: A US-focused comment on Smith et al. Value in Health.
Zhang, Q. (2025). On “The joint impact of greenspace and air pollution on mortality”: Methodological proposals. International Journal of Epidemiology.
Zhang, Q. (2025). Re: Khodakarami et al, “Exploring neighborhood opportunity as a factor in pediatric asthma visits to the emergency department”: A causal roadmap for Child Opportunity Index 2.0. Public Health Reports.
Global Burden of Disease 2023 — collaborative publications
Named collaborator-author under group authorship, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
GBD 2023 Colon and Rectum Cancer Collaborators. Global, Regional, and National Burden of Colon and Rectum Cancer from 1990 to 2023, with Forecasts to 2050: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. Under review, The Lancet Oncology.
GBD 2023 Western Pacific WHO AMR Collaborators. The Burden of Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance in the WHO Region of the Western Pacific: A Cross-Country Systematic Analysis. Under review, The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific.
GBD 2023 Type 1 Diabetes Collaborators. Global, Regional, and National Type 1 Diabetes Burden: A Systematic Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. Under review, The Lancet Primary Care.
Book chapters (forthcoming)
Zhang, Q. (forthcoming). Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Measurement, Health Deprivations, and Policy Use. In R. Baikady (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Poverty Research. Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature.
Zhang, Q. (forthcoming). Social Determinants of Health and Multidimensional Poverty. In R. Baikady (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Poverty Research. Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature.
Working papers (under review)
Zhang, Q., & Hu, W. Subclinical Cardiometabolic–Inflammatory Burden, Disability-Free Working Life and Work Exit in Three Ageing Cohorts. Under review, Nature Aging.
Inflammatory, Nutritional, and Metabolic Biomarker Profiles in Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer: A 24-Year Cross-Sectional Analysis of NHANES, 2001–2023. Under review, JAMA Oncology.
Zhang, Q., & Lee, S.-H. Adult Children’s Labor Supply and Co-residence after Parental Dementia: A Lifecycle Reassessment. Under review, Health Economics.
Which Diagnoses Change How Long People Think They Will Live: Cancer against Other First Diagnoses in Three Ageing Panels. Under review, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing.
Restricted-Scope Medi-Cal Enrollment Rose Sharply After California’s 2026 Adult Enrollment Freeze. Under review, Health Affairs Scholar.
Work in progress
Chronic versus Acute Health Shocks and the Margins of Labor Supply: Evidence from Frailty Dynamics in an Aging Population. Accepted at the Southern Economic Association (SEA) 96th Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, November 2026.
Health Shocks and the Permanent Labor-Market Exit of Older Europeans.
Sustained Insulin Resistance and Incident Coronary Heart Disease in Older English Adults: A Selection-Weighted Cohort Analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
Balancing Innovation Incentives and Equitable Access for AI Health Technologies: Policy Levers for IP, Transparency, and Solidarity.
How Much Care, and How Much Harm? Measuring Both After a Spouse Falls Ill.
Caregiving as Health Capital Depreciation: Time Allocation Evidence from IPUMS ATUS.
Falls, Missing Markets, and Labor Supply: Evidence from China.
Later, Longer, Fewer and the Quantity–Quality Trade-off: Evidence from CHARLS.
Conference presentations
Zhang, Q. (2026). Chronic versus Acute Health Shocks and the Margins of Labor Supply: Evidence from Frailty Dynamics in an Aging Population. Southern Economic Association (SEA) 96th Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, November 21–23, 2026.
Zhang, Q. (2026). Nutritional Depletion, Not Inflammation Alone, Independently Associates with Colorectal Cancer: A 24-Year NHANES Analysis (2001–2023) with a Distinct Early-Onset Phenotype. Flash talk, International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) 2026, Buffalo, NY, August 2026.