THEME: "Innovating for Tomorrow: Shaping the Future of Public Health"
14-15 Sep 2026
Singapore
Hanzhong Central Hospital, China
Title: Changes in Vitamin D Status among Chinese Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Large Pediatric Laboratory Dataset
Dr. Yong feng Qiao is a senior clinical laboratory technologist in the Department of Clinical Laboratory at Hanzhong Central Hospital, Shaanxi, China, and serves as a technical lead for the ISO 15189 quality management system. His academic work focuses on clinical laboratory big-data analysis, pediatric public health, nutritional assessment, infectious disease screening, and machine-learning-based clinical prediction models. He has used routine laboratory indicators and large clinical datasets to support early disease screening, risk-factor identification, and public health surveillance. His recent research examined vitamin D status among Chinese children during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlighted the potential value of laboratory data for child health monitoring and evidence-based public health decision-making