Fan Li

Fan Li, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing, University of Missouri – St. Louis, specializing in diabetes nursing research and psychosocial responses during pandemics. With 10 years of interdisciplinary collaboration experience, her work bridges quantitative and qualitative methodologies across US-China healthcare contexts.

• PhD in Nursing (UMSL, 2022)
• MMed in Nursing (Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 2015)

Her research focuses on diabetes management using machine learning to predict health outcomes in youth-onset type 2 diabetes. Recent publications highlight pandemic-era stressors in US nurses via network analysis, cross-cultural volunteerism during health crises, and psychosocial interventions for diabetic patients.

Key awards include the 2022 Mary Reardon Castles Award and a 2015 International Diabetes Federal Travel Award. She has presented her findings globally, including at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions and the World Diabetes Congress.