Prof. Peipei Song received her Ph.D. in Medicine from The University of Tokyo, where she conducted her doctoral research in the Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. She currently serves as Director of the Division of Global Health and Medicine at the Japan Institute for Health Security (JIHS) and as Professor at the National College of Nursing, Japan (NCNJ), JIHS. 

Her research interests include liver cancer and the development and validation of tumor biomarkers. She also focuses on frailty assessment and comprehensive clinical management of older adults with liver cancer, spanning inpatient care and post-discharge rehabilitation, with an emphasis on quality of life. Her broader interests encompass standardized clinical pathways, applications of health-related big data in healthcare, healthcare and nursing policy research, public health strategies, and healthy aging in a global context.

Prof. Song has led 17 international collaborative research projects and participated in 11 research projects conducted by Japanese research groups. She has authored more than 170 scientific publications, including more than 160 English-language articles in SCI-indexed journals, and has contributed to five academic books.

She serves on the editorial boards of several international academic journals and as Executive Editor of Global Health & Medicine (www.globalhealthmedicine.com) and GHM Open (www.ghmopen.com), both published by JIHS.