Name：Fengsu Hou

Position：Assistant Professor

E-mail：fengsu_hou@szu.edu.cn

Personal Statement:

Dr. Fengsu Hou received his Ph.D. from Sichuan University in 2015, and then joined the Department of Psychiatry of University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York for postdoctoral training. In 2015, Dr. Hou joined the Sun Yat-sen Global Health Institute of School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University as associate research professor. In 2019, Dr. Hou joined the Shenzhen Mental Health Center as associate research professor. In 2025, Dr. Hou joined the School of Public Health, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University as assistant professor.

Global Health and Implementation Science provide the theoretical framework for Dr. Hou to gradually develop his research interests. Dr. Hou is fully committed to the field of public mental health, especially suicide prevention and improving mental health among vulnerable populations. In his TEEM project, a series of implementation studies, he applies brief contact interventions and a gamified intervention to reduce suicide risk among discharged psychiatric patients. Dr. Hou has published papers in hight impact academic journals in mental healsh and psychiatry, such as the British Journal of Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences.

Research Interests:

Public mental health

Global health and implementation science

Intimate partner violence

Sexual minorities

Research Projects:

1. NSFC (China) Project (72374095):  01/01/2024 to 12/31/2027  ￥400,000

2. NSFC (China) Project (72004140):  01/01/2020 to 12/31/2023  ￥240,000

3. NSFC (Guangdong) Project (2022A1515011533):  01/01/202 to 12/31/2025 ￥100,000

4. Science and Technology Innovation Commission Project  (JCYJ20190809162411393):  05/29/2020 to 05/31/2023 ￥100,000

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications:

1. Fengsu Hou^{* #}, Jinghua Li, Huiming Liu, Eric D. Caine. Changing patterns in suicide mortality 1999–2019 in the USA: age–period–cohort analyses including gender and race. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 2025:1-7. doi:10.1192/bjp.2025.6.

2. Dannuo Wei^*, Fengsu Hou*, Wangnan Cao, Chun Hao, Jing Gu, Lipingn Peng, Jinghua Li#. Effects of emotion regulation and perpetrator-victim roles in intimate partner violence on mental health problems among men who have sex with men in China. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2020, e159,1-9. doi: 10.1017/ S2045796020000712.

3. Dannuo Wei^*, Xiaohui Wang, Xinyi You, Xufei Luo, Chun Hao, Jing Gu, Shihui Peng, Xiao Yang, Yuantao Hao, Vincent M.B. Silenzio, Jinghua Li^#, Fengsu Hou^#. Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and suicide among men who have sex with men in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2020, 29: e136, 1-11. doi: 10.1017/S2045796020000487.

4. Fengsu Hou^*, Xingyu Zhang, Catherine Cerulli, Wenjun He, Yushi Mo, Wenjie Gong^#. The impact of intimate partner violence on the trajectory of perinatal depression: a cohort study in a Chinese sample. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Science. 2020, 29: e133, 1–12. doi: 10.1017/S2045796020000463.

5. Fengsu Hou^*, Catherine Cerulli, Hugh F. Crean, Marsha N. Wittink, Eric D. Caine, Peiyuan Qiu^#. Implementing a new tool to predict the risk of intimate partner violence in rural China. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 2017; 00(00): 1–19. doi: 10.1177/0886260517742152.