She is Professor and supervisor of PhD and Postdoctoral of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Ghent (UG). She has long-standing experience in coordinating international projects, particularly EU-funded projects in Europe and China in the field of reproductive health and maternal health. She has published papers as the first or last authors at BMJ and Lancet journals, she teaches courses focused on epidemiology and evidence-based medicine. She is also academic coordinator of China platform of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science at UG. Between 2012 and 2019, she has supervised 5 PhD students and 11 postdoctoral research projects. She has been full professor at the School of Public Health, ULB between 2012-2015. She has held the position of adjunct professor at several Chinese universities including Tsinghua University, Research Centre for Public Health, Beijing; Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai; the National Research Institution for Family Planning. She has been appointed adjunct associate professor at Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, USA since 2017 and visiting professor in the department of Population Health at Aga Khan university in Nairobi since 2018. She is also Advisor of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China (2014- 2021) and Experts of “Overseas Academicians and Experts Beijing workstation” (2017-2021).