KK Cheng

KK Cheng (郑家强) has been a professor at the University of Birmingham since 1995. His main interests are in the epidemiology, prevention and control of important non-communicable diseases, and the development of primary care in China.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, KK was among the first researchers in western countries who advocated the importance of mask wearing in the community to control the pandemic on 2 March 2020. He questioned the guidance of the WHO on masks in the BMJ on 11 March and published a comment summarising the importance of masks in The Lancet on 16 April, which have informed the debate on the issue.