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last modified:2025/12/05

Assistant Professor XU, Yao

Faculty, Affiliation

Faculty of Transdisciplinary Sciences, Institute of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Sciences
Assistant Professor

College and School Educational Field


College of Human and Social Sciences
College of Transdisciplinary Sciences for Innovation

Laboratory

Academic Background

Career

Institute of Transdisciplinary Sciences, Kanazawa University
Zhuhai Disease Prevention and Control Center
School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University
Orygen: The National Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
Jean Hailes Research Unit, Monash University
Zhuhai Women and Children Hospital

Year & Month of Birth

Academic Society

Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health
International Association for Suicide Prevention

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Specialities

Hygiene and public health、General internal medicine (including psychosomatic medicine)

Speciality Keywords

Gender studies,Trauma studies,Public health,Mental health

Research Themes

Books

  •  Xu, Y., Herrman, H., Tsutsumi, A., Fisher, J. The Strangled Cry: The communication and experience of trauma 2013

Papers

  •  Intimate Partner Support as a Critical Source of Social Support on Women’s Post-Trauma Mental Recovery: A cross-sectional study Yao Xu , Helen Herrman , Rebecca Bentley , Atsuro Tsutsumi , Thach Duc Tran, Jane Fisher Journal of Death and Dying 2025
  •  International perspective on research priorities and outcome measures of importance in the care of children with acute exacerbations of asthma: a qualitative interview study Gray CS, Xu Y, Babl FE, Dalziel S, Powell CVE, Chong SL, Roland D, Lyttle MD, Fernandes RM, Benito J, Johnson M, Yock-Corrales A, Santhanam I, Schuh S, Cheema B, Couper J, Craig S; Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN) BMJ Open Respir Res. 10 1 2023
  •  Core outcomes and factors influencing the experience of care for children with severe acute exacerbations of asthma: a qualitative study Craig S, Xu Y, Robas K, Iramain R, Yock-Corrales A, Soto-Martinez ME, Rino P, Ricciardi MBA, Piantanida S, Mahant S, Ubuane PO, Odusote O, Kwok M, Johnson MD, Paniagua N, Fernandez JB, Ong GY, Lyttle MD, Gong J, Roland D, Dalziel SR, Nixon GM, Powell CVE, Graudins A, Babl FZ. BMJ Open Respir Res. 10 1 2023
  •  Comparison between HIV self-testing and facility-based HIV testing approach on HIV early detection among men who have sex with men: A cross-sectional study Zhou Y, Huang S, Cui M, Guo Z, Tang H, Lyu H, Ni Y, Lu Y, Feng Y, Wang Y, Jing F, Huang S, Li J, Xu Y, Mei W. Front Immunol. 13 13 857-905 2022
  •  Effect of having a subsequent baby on the mental health of women who lost a child in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake: a cross-sectional study Xu, Y., Herrman, H. Bentley, R., Tsutsumi, A., Fisher, J. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 92 5 348-355 2014

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  •  Psychological and social consequences of losing a child in a natural or human-made disaster: A review of the evidence Xu, Y., Herrman, H., Tsutsumi, A., Fisher, J. Asia-Pacific Psychiatry 5 4 237-248 2013
  •  Gender Equity and Contraceptive Use in China: An ecological analysis Xu, Y., Bentley, R. and Kavanagh, A. M.  Women & Health 51 8 739-758 2011

Conference Presentations

  • The impact of different sources of social support on women’s mental recovery after exposed to multiple traumatic events(conference:PRCP & WACP Joint Congress 2025 Tokyo)(2025/09)
  • Effect of having a subsequent child on the mental health of women who lost a child in a natural disaster(conference:5th World Congress of Asian Psychiatry)(2015/03)
  • Psychological morbidity in women thirty months after a death of a child in the 2008 Sichuan, China earthquake, Oral presentation(conference:10th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society)(2014/06)
  • Psychological morbidity in women thirty months after a death of a child in the 2008 Sichuan, China earthquake(conference:9th APRU Research Symposium on Multi-Hazards around the Pacific Rim)(2013/10)
  • Mental health morbidity in women thirty months after the death of a child in the 2008 Sichuan, China earthquake(conference:Second ISA Forum of Sociology: Social justice and democratisation)(2012/08)

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  • Mental health morbidity in women thirty months after the death of a child in the 2008 Sichuan, China earthquake(conference:13th World Congress on Public Health (2012 World Congress on Public Health))(2012/04)
  • Mental health morbidity in women thirty months after the death of a child in the 2008 Sichuan, China earthquake(conference:2nd Global Conference: Trauma: Theory and Practice)(2012/03)

Others

Arts and Fieldwork

Patent

Theme to the desired joint research

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Competitive research funding,Contribution

Collaborative research,Consignment study

Classes (Bachelors)

○Public Health and Tourism (2025)
○International Practical English I(2025)

Classes (Graduate Schools)

International Project

International Students

Lecture themes

Others (Social Activities)

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