I am a Research Scientist in the Biostatistics Group at KAUST. I am a statistician with research interest in demography and global health.
I have been collaborating with UNICEF, specifically the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, since 2012 on developing statistical models to estimate child and adolescent mortality disparities between sex, economic status, and place of residence. I have also been working with the UN Population Division since 2013 on estimating and projection sex ratio at birth using Bayesian approaches.
I have published in journals such as Lancet Global Health, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Annals of Applied Statistics.
Fengqing is my given name, and the closest English pronunciation is “Fung-Ching”. Chao is my family name, pronounced as it is spelled.
My CV is available here. My KAUST profile is here.
PhD in Biostatistics, 2017
National University of Singapore
BSc Hons in Statistics, 2012
National University of Singapore
New preprint @SSRN! Sex differences in survival chances from birth to 24 for all countries 1990-2021, w @BrunoMasquelier @DanzhenYou Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, @HavardRue1 Hernando Ombao and @LeontineAlkema. Available at https://t.co/uhDRLFvzbQ
— Fengqing Chao (@FengqingChao) April 19, 2023
New @WhioceIJPS paper on subnational sex ratio at birth (SRB) in Pakistan estimates since 1980 and scenario-based projections till 2050, w @Asifwazir and Hernando Ombao. https://t.co/fPqxHX51oJ
— Fengqing Chao (@FengqingChao) December 16, 2022
Recent & Upcoming Talks at here.
I build statistical models to estimate the disparities in child and adolescence mortality rates across countries over time.
I build statistical models to estimate and project human sex ratio at birth on national and sub-national levels.
Chao, Fengqing, Patrick Gerland, Alex R. Cook, Christophe Z. Guilmoto, and Leontine Alkema. “Projecting sex imbalances at birth at global, regional and national levels from 2021 to 2100: scenario-based Bayesian probabilistic projections of the sex ratio at birth and missing female births based on 3.26 billion birth records." BMJ Global Health 6, no. 8 (2021): e005516.
Chao, Fengqing, Christophe Z. Guilmoto, Samir KC, and Hernando Ombao. “Probabilistic projection of the sex ratio at birth and missing female births by State and Union Territory in India." PLoS ONE 15, no. 8 (2020): e0236673.
Chao, Fengqing, Patrick Gerland, Alex R. Cook, and Leontine Alkema. “Systematic assessment of the sex ratio at birth for all countries and estimation of national imbalances and regional reference levels." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 19 (2019): 9303-9311.
Chao, Fengqing, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Lucia Hug, and Leontine Alkema. “National and regional under-5 mortality rate by economic status for low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic assessment." The Lancet Global Health 6, no. 5 (2018): e535-e547.
full publication list here