Jingjing Jiao is an Academic Visitor at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing from June 2026 to November 2026 Oxford Institute of Population Ageing.

Her core research focuses on adolescent mental health, family psychosocial support for families affected by advanced cancer, integrated medical-elderly care standardization, and palliative care service development across China and cross-cultural contexts. She specializes in mixed-methods research combining qualitative field interviews, clinical prediction modelling and evidence synthesis to inform ageing care policy and youth emotional intervention systems Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. She has served for 18 government-commissioned research projects sponsored by Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department, Hunan Provincial Health Commission and Tianjin Civil Affairs Bureau, covering provincial elderly care grading evaluation standards, municipal older adult care needs assessment framework construction, and family psychological intervention programmes for cancer-affected adolescents and their caregivers.

In addition, she has participated in the multi-million-pound Australian government-funded PACOP (Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program) hosted by the University of Wollongong. She has published 8 peer-reviewed international papers indexed in authoritative journals such as BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, Journal of Clinical Nursing and BMC Geriatrics, alongside eight cross-border patents covering palliative medical devices, geriatric auxiliary equipment and clinical testing systems issued in China, the US and South Korea Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. As the core developer of Tianjin’s official municipal standard for older adult care needs assessment, she also participated the matched digital assessment APP which has completed government procurement and been rolled out for local elderly care management nationwide.

Jingjing holds a PhD in Medicine (Nursing) from Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, with consecutive overseas visiting PhD training at University of Galway (Ireland), University of Wollongong (Australia) and University of California, San Francisco (USA) throughout her postgraduate studies. Currently an Associate Professor at Shandong Xiehe University, she undertakes undergraduate pastoral counselling and academic mentoring while continuing community welfare work for disadvantaged rural adolescents and institutional elderly groups in China.