Min Xie

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

Affiliated with the department of medicine, Stanford University

Dr.rer.pol 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 services interventions. I have extensive experience working with electronic health records (EHRs).

min.xie@uni-heidelberg.de

Publications

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

medrxiv preprint

Media: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zeit Online, SWR, DW, The Guardian, New York Times

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 [German], 医学科学报[Chinese]

Working papers

The effect of herpes zoster vaccination at different stages of the disease course of dementia: two quasi-randomized studies

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

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

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

* These authors contributed equally.