China’s Aging Population and the Implications for China’s Security
This brief reviews RAND research on demographic trends in China and examines how these trends might affect the country’s security and economic growth.
Jennifer Bouey
Tang Chair in China Policy Studies; Senior Policy Researcher; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Expertise
Dr. Jennifer Bouey is the Tang Chair for China Policy Studies, a senior policy researcher and epidemiologist at RAND, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. She also serves as the department chair for Global Health at Georgetown University. She leads wide-ranging collaborative research initiatives on understanding China's health systems and societal challenges, global health security and soft power, and the U.S.-China relationship. Currently, she is working on projects to assess the impact of China's overseas development, demographics, pandemic response, and global health aid. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bouey testified multiple times before U.S. Congressional committees on China's public health, global health, and health care reforms.
Bouey's work has been quoted in general interest publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, and The Hill, as well as scholarly journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and BMJ Open. NIH, HRSA/HHS, and multiple foundations have funded her research. Bouey also has been a consultant to the World Bank Group, UNAIDS, USAID, Hong Kong Government AIDS Fund, and other international NGOs. She earned her Ph.D. and M.P.H. in epidemiology from George Washington University and her M.D. from Peking University Medical School.
Education
Ph.D. in epidemiology, George Washington University; M.P.H. in epidemiology, George Washington University; M.D. in clinical medicine, Peking University
Languages
Chinese-Mandarin; English
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Chair, Department of Global Health, Georgetown University; Epidemologist
Selected Work
- Bouey, Jennifer, Beth Grill, Ishita Ghai, Sabahat Zafar, Anita Chandra, and Kristin J. Leuschner, The Future of U.S. Global Health Work in Asia: How Can U.S. Civil-Military Health Assistance Enhance Asia's Health Security?RAND Corporation (RR-A3251-1), 2025
- Bouey, Jennifer, Lu Dong, Grace Tang, Stacey Yi, Lynn Hu, Douglas Yeung, June Lim, Steven Zhang, and Yannan Li, Community Learning and Outreach Toolkit for Countering Anti-Asian Hate, RAND Corporation (TL-A3252-1), 2024
- Bouey, Jennifer, Lynn Hu, Keller Scholl, William Marcellino, Rafiq Dossani, Ammar A. Malik, Kyra Solomon, Sheng Zhang, and Andy Shufer, China's AI Exports: Technology Distribution and Data Safety, RAND Corporation (RR-A2696-2), 2023
- Bouey, Jennifer, Lynn Hu, Sohaela Amiri, and Rafiq Dossani, Public Health and Soft Power: The Republic of Korea's Initial COVID-19 Response and Its Implications for Health Diplomacy, RAND Corporation (RR-A1415-1), 2022
- Parachini, John V., Jennifer Bouey, Daniel M. Gerstein, Alison K. Hottes, Bradley Martin, Trupti Brahmbhatt, Katherine Grace Carman, Anita Chandra, K. Jack Riley, and Barbara Bicksler, Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Outbreak: Preventing and Managing Future Pandemics, RAND Corporation (PE-A1481-2), 2022
- Jennifer Bouey, China's Health System Reform and Global Health Strategy in the Context of COVID-19: (Chinese Translation), RAND Corporation (CT-A321-3)
- Dong, Lu, Jennifer Bouey, Douglas Yeung, Peggy G. Chen, and Priya Gandhi, Addressing Anti-Asian Racism in the Era of COVID-19: Next Steps for a Research Agenda, RAND Corporation (RR-A1594-1), 2021
- Stoto MA, Kang M, Song T, Bouey J, Boyce MR, Katz R, "At the frontier of the global battle against emerging infections: surveillance and management of avian influenza A(H7N9) in Guangdong Province, China," J Glob Health Rep , 3, 2019
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