Publications

Yunwei Chen, Hongmei Yi, Sihang Rao, Ann Weber, Kristen Hassmiller-Lich, Sean Sylvia (2026). Primary Care Quality and Inappropriate Community Antibiotic Use: A Double Machine Learning Instrumental Variable Approach. medRxiv (Preprint).

Yunwei Chen, Yuju Wu, Ann M. Weber, Alexis Medina, Yian Guo, Siva Balakrishnan, Hanwen Zhang, Scott Rozelle, Huan Zhou, Gary L. Darmstadt, Sean Sylvia (2026). Effect of a digitally-enabled, stage-based intervention on maternal and child health: a community-based, cluster-randomized controlled trial from rural China. medRxiv (Preprint).

Siva Balakrishnan, Yunwei Chen, Gary L. Darmstadt, Sean Sylvia, Joshua v. Garn, Sarah A. Friedman, Ann M. Weber (2026). Uncovering hidden patterns: use of infant feeding profiles in the first 6 months postpartum to inform the effectiveness of breastfeeding promotion programs. Frontiers in Public Health.

Xiannan Xian, Tongxin Zhao, Sisi Du, Hanwen Zhang, Yunwei Chen, Huan Zhou, Yuju Wu (2026). Adaptive intervention to improve self-management behaviours among hypertensive patients in rural primary care settings: protocol for a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomised Trial (SMART). BMJ Open.

Isabel Z Wang, Gary L Darmstadt, Andrew Rule, Sarah-Eve Dill, Yunwei Chen, Huan Zhou, Yuju Wu, Scott Rozelle (2025). Changes in rural China’s caregiver outcomes, behaviours, and health services utilisation following the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study. Journal of Global Health.

Yunwei Chen, Yian Guo, Yuju Wu, Alexis Medina, Huan Zhou, Gary L Darmstadt (2024). Maternal empowerment, feeding knowledge, and infant nutrition: Evidence from rural China. Journal of Global Health.

Ruixue Ye, Yuju Wu, Chang Sun, Qingzhi Wang, Yue Ma, Yunwei Chen, Lucy Pappas, Cindy Feng, Scott Rozelle, Huan Zhou (2024). Gap in Protective Behaviors Between Han and Minority Ethnicities During COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Western China: A Decomposition Analysis. Preventive Medicine Reports.

Lu Liu, Yuju Wu, Xiannan Xian, Jieyuan Feng, Yuping Mao, Siva Balakrishnan, Ann M. Weber, Gary L. Darmstadt, Yunwei Chen, Sean Sylvia, Huan Zhou, Scott Rozelle (2023). In-Hospital Formula Feeding Hindered Exclusive Breastfeeding: Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy as a Mediating Factor. Nutrients.

Marwa Ibrahim, Yunwei Chen, Audrey Pereira, Takondwa Musa, Dharini Bathia, Sudhanshu Handa (2023). The Psychology of Poverty: A Replication Based on Zimbabwe's Harmonised Social Cash Transfer Programme. Journal of African Economies.

Yunwei Chen, Yuju Wu, Sarah-Eve Dill, Yian Guo, Christopher Michael Westgard, Alexis Medina, Ann M Weber, Gary L Darmstadt, Huan Zhou, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia (2023). Effect of the mHealth-supported Healthy Future programme delivered by community health workers on maternal and child health in rural China: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open.

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Yunwei Chen, Sean Sylvia, Sarah-Eve Dill, Scott Rozelle (2022). Structural Determinants of Child Health in Rural China: The Challenge of Creating Health Equity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Sha Meng, Qingzhi Wang, Yuju Wu, Hao Xue, Linhua Li, Ruixue Ye, Yunwei Chen, Lucy Pappas, Muizz Akhtar, Sarah-Eve Dill, Sean Sylvia, Huan Zhou, Scott Rozelle (2022). The know-do gap in quality of health for chronic non-communicable diseases in rural China. Frontiers in Public Health.

Yunwei Chen, Sean Sylvia, Paiou Wu, Hongmei Yi (2022). Explaining the declining utilization of village clinics in rural China over time: A decomposition approach. Social Science & Medicine.

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Rui Li, Nathan Rose, Yi Ming Zheng, Yunwei Chen, Sean Sylvia, Henry Wilson-Smith, Alexis Medina, Sarah-Eve Dill, Scott Rozelle (2021). Early Childhood Reading in Rural China and Obstacles to Caregiver Investment in Young Children: A Mixed-Methods Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Wilson Guo, Sean Sylvia, Karl Umble, Yunwei Chen, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Hongmei Yi (2020). The competence of village clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in rural China: A nationally representative assessment. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific.