Ni is a research fellow working in health and social care policy. She has a multidisciplinary background in clinical medicine and health economics. She has had a particular focus on behavioural economics such as policy evaluation, health inequality, time allocation, and preferences elicitation using discrete choice experiments. She also has expertise in epidemiological economics.
Ni had experience of successful collaborations with several research institutions, where she led or contributed to various research projects. These include the University of Oxford, the University of Aberdeen, the Curtin University in Australia, the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the World Health Organization in Switzerland.
Ni holds a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom; a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Illinois Chicago, United States; a Master of Philosophy degree in Medical Sciences from the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and a Bachelor of Medicine degree (MBBS) from Peking University, China.