Professor

Dr. Gao Liangmin currently serves as a Professor at the Fudan Development Institute, obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology (Anthropology) from Tsinghua University in 2018 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Tsinghua University from 2019 to 2021. He served as the Director and Assistant Professor of the Center for Sub-Saharan African Studies (CSAS) at the Institute for International and Area Studies, Tsinghua University before 2025. He is also a council member of the Chinese Association of African History Studies, a member of the Chinese Association of Ethnology and Anthropology. Additionally, He is part of the Expert Advisory Committee for New Initiatives in Aid to Africa under the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (2024) of the China International Development Cooperation Agency, a member of the National Health Commission’s research project group on African health studies, and an expert in the teacher training program for China’s medical and public health aid to Africa. He also serves as a peer reviewer for several Chinese and English academic journals.

Since 2019, he has published one monograph and three edited volumes, presided over one general project under the Annual National Social Science Fund, and published over 30 academic papers in both Chinese and English. These include publications in top-tier CSSCI journals such as Ethnic Studies, Journal of Sun Yat-sen University (Social Science Edition), as well as in SSCI/SCI journals like BMJ Global Health and Globalization & Health.

His research focuses primarily on Tanzania, Uganda, and Eastern Africa, with academic interests spanning health equity, global health, nomadic communities and livelihoods, the intellectual history of African societies, and China’s medical and agricultural aid and cooperation with Africa. He is proficient in English, has intermediate-level skills in Swahili, and beginner-level proficiency in Luganda. He has conducted 5.5 years of fieldwork in East African countries, including Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Malawi. He possesses one of the most extensive research databases in China on East Africa, encompassing fieldwork data, historical archives, folk texts, local publications, and socio-cultural samples.

Representative works include:

1.Gao Liangmin, Xu Junfang. Public health engagement: new opportunities and challenges in 60 years of China’s health aid to Africa, BMJ Glob Health, 2023, 8: e012302.

2.Liangmin G*, et al. Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on HIV care cascade for people living with HIV in Ethiopia: a retrospective longitudinal study. BMJ Open, 2024;14: e084244.

3. Gao Liangmin, Liu Ming. “An Ethnographic Study of the Transformation of Livelihood Roles among Karamojong Women in Uganda.” *Ethnic-National Studies*, No. 3, 2025. （In Chinese）

4. Gao Liangmin. “Actor’s Perspective: The Boundary Between System and Practice in Chinese Medical Teams Assisting Africa.” *Journal of Sun Yat-sen University (Social Science Edition)*, No. 5, 2022. （In Chinese）

5. Gao Liangmin, Qi Tengfei. “Export or Interaction? A Study on the Introduction of Chinese Farming Culture to Africa.” *Thinking*, No. 3, 2020. （In Chinese）

6. Gao Liangmin, Qi Tengfei. “Existence and Continuity: Narratives and Practices of Traditional Medicine in East Africa.” *Sociological Review*, No. 5, 2019. （In Chinese）

7. Gao Liangmin, Cheng Feng. “The Aga Khan Development Network: Lessons from a Century of Global Health Governance in East Africa.” *Pacific Journal*, No. 7, 2019. （In Chinese）

Email：gaolm@fudan.edu.cn