Min Xie

min.xie@uni-heidelberg.de

👨‍💻 Postdoctoral researcher at heidelberg institute of global health (HIGH), Heidelberg University Hospital

Affiliated with the department of medicine, Stanford University

🎓 PhD in economics, Heidelberg University

🔬 I am an applied economist with research interests in population health, epidemiology, and health economics. My work focuses on impact evaluation using natural experiments, with a particular emphasis on clinical and health interventions. I have extensive experience working with electronic health records (EHRs).

Publications

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course

Cell, 2025

Min Xie, Markus Eyting, Christian Bommer, Haroon Ahmed & Pascal Geldsetzer

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia

Nature, 2025

Markus Eyting*, Min Xie*, Felix Michalik, Simon Heß, Seunghun Chung & Pascal Geldsetzer

Media: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Das Tagesspiegel, Zeit, DW, SWR, Deutchlandfunk (radio), The Guardian, Time, New York Times, 科技日报, 日本経済新聞

Quasi-experimental evaluation of a nationwide diabetes prevention programme

Nature, 2023

Julia M. Lemp, Christian Bommer, Min Xie, Felix Michalik, Anant Jani, Justine I. Davies, Till Bärnighausen, Sebastian Vollmer & Pascal Geldsetzer

Media: Nature News, The Guardian, Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 医学科学报

Working papers

Effects of nationwide alerting for acute kidney injury on healthcare and patient outcomes: population based, regression discontinuity analysis

medRxiv, 2025

Min Xie, Pascal Geldsetzer, Tom Blakeman, Matthew James, Tim Scale, Zhi Tan & Simon Sawhney

The effect of herpes zoster vaccination on the occurrence of deaths due to dementia in England and Wales

medRxiv, 2023

Felix Michalik, Min Xie, Markus Eyting, Simon Heß, Seunghun Chung & Pascal Geldsetzer

* These authors contributed equally.