Curriculum Vitae

Lei Jin
Department of Sociology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
RM 431, Sino Building                                                                                 
Shatin, Hong Kong China

Telephone:  (852) 2696-1185

Email:  ljin@chuhk.edu.hk

POSITIONS

2007 – Assistant professor, Department of Sociology and School of Public Health, Chinese

University of Hong Kong

2005 – 2007 Postdoctoral fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program,

Harvard University

Spring, 2005 Lecturer, Collegiate Division of the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago
1997 – 2003 Senior statistical programmer, Outcomes Research Program,  Department of Medicine, The

University of Chicago

1996 – 1997 Research assistant, National Opinion Research Center
1993 – 1994 Lecturer, Department of English, Nanjing University, China

EUDCATION

PhD    The University of Chicago 2005 (Sociology)
MS     The University of Chicago 2001 (Statistics)
MA     The University of Chicago 1996 (Sociology)
BA Nanjing University, China 1993 (English Literature)

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

Title: Physician Professionalism and the Rationalization of Clinical Practice
Committee: Andrew Abbott (Chair), Lawrence Casalino, David Meltzer 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

medical sociology, health policy, sociology of professions, demography, social epidemiology, research methods 

PUBLICATIONS

Jin, Lei, Felix Elwert, Jeremy Freese and Nicholas A. Christakis. Forthcoming. " Preliminary Evidence Regarding the Hypothesis that the Operational Sex Ratio at Sexual Maturity May Affect Longevity in Men." Demography.

Jin, Lei and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2009. "Investigating the Mechanism of Marital Mortality Reduction: The Transition to Widowhood and Quality of Health Care." Demography 46(3): 605-25.

Clever, Sarah L., Lei Jin, Wendy Levinson, and David O. Meltzer. 2008. "Does doctor-patient communication affect patient satisfaction with hospital care? Results of an analysis with a novel instrumental variable." Health Services Research 43:1505-19.

Casalino, Lawrence P., G. Caleb Alexander, Lei Jin, and R. Tamara Konetzka. 2007. "General Internists’ Views On Pay-For-Performance And Public Reporting Of Quality Scores: A National Survey." Health Affairs 26:492-499.

Yamaguchi, Kazuo and Lei Jin. 1999. "Event history analysis in human development research." in Growing up in Times of Social Change, edited by R. K. Silbereisen and A. von Eye. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Jin, Lei. 2002. Review of Re-drawing boundaries: work, household and gender in China, Barbara Entwisle and Gail Henderson eds. Contemporary Sociology 31(2): 127-129.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“The Organizational Antecedents of Physician Autonomy”, with Daniel Menchik, under review

“From Mainstream to the Margin? The Trend in Utilization of Chinese Medicine in China 1991-2004” Manuscript in progress.
“Rationalization of Clinical Practice and Intra-professional Differentiation” Manuscript in progress.
“Social Capital and Collective Action: the Mobilization of Rural Health Care Cooperatives in China” Manuscript in progress.
“Marriage and Health in Contemporary China: a Longitudinal Approach” Manuscript in progress.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

University of Chicago Robert E. Park Lectureship Award, 2005
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  “Physician Professionalism and Rationalization of Clinical Practices” (R36 HS 14155-01). Principal Investigator. 2004-2005.
National Science Foundation. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Physician Professionalism and Rationalization of Clinical Practices” (SES-0425783). Co-Principal Investigator, with Andrew Abbott, Faculty Advisor. 2004-2005
Trainee, Health Services Research Training Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2003-2004

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Medical sociology and Quantitative data analysis, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Medical sociology, Spring 2005, Collegiate Division of the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Jin, Lei. 2008. “Social Support, Social Networks and Health among Migrants in Shanghai: Some Preliminary Findings”, International Workshop on Mobility and Health – Health Risks and Health Strategies of Rural Migrants in Urban China (流动与健康——中国大城市农村外来人口健康风险与策略国际研讨会), Guangzhou, China

Jin, Lei, Wen Ming. 2008. “Marriage and Health in Contemporary China: a Prospective Study” Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, New York, NY.  
Jin, Lei. 2007. “Rationalization of Clinical Practice and Intra-professional Differentiation” Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, New York, NY.  
Jin, Lei, Nicholas Christakis. 2007. “Investigating the Mechanism of Marital Mortality Reduction: The Transition to Widowhood and Quality of Health Care” Annual Meeting of Population Association of America, New York, NY.  
Jin, Lei, David Menchik. 2006. “When do physicians follow patients’ orders? Collegial support and competitive pressures in contemporary medicine” Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.   
Jin, Lei. 2004. “Physician professionalism and care management processes” Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.        

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial work
Member of the Manuscript Review Board of American Journal of Sociology, 2003 – 2004, worked with other members of the board and the editorial staff to assign submitted manuscripts to appropriate reviewers.

Occasional reviewer for American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review

Professional Membership
American Sociological Association
Population Association of America