Dr. Min Xie
Postdoctoral Researcher
Min Xie is a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Institute for Global Health. He holds a PhD in Economics from Heidelberg University (2020) and a Master in Economics and Finance from CEMFI (2015). He is an applied economist with research interests in population health, epidemiology, and development economics. His work focuses on impact evaluation using natural experiments, with a particular emphasis on clinical and health services interventions.
Education
2015 - 2020 Dr.rer.pol in Economics, Heidelberg University, Germany
2013 - 2015 MSc in Economics and Finance, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Spain
Contributions
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Xie, M., Geldsetzer, P., Blakeman, T., James, M., Scale, T., Tan, Z., & Sawhney, S. (2026). A population-based, regression discontinuity analysis examined the effects of nationwide alerting for acute kidney injury on health care and patient outcomes. Kidney International, 109(5), 1014–1024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2026.01.019
Xie, M., Eyting, M., Bommer, C., Ahmed, H., & Geldsetzer, P. (2025). The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course. Cell, 188(25), 7049–7064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.11.007
Eyting, M., Xie, M., Michalik, F., Heß, S., Chung, S., & Geldsetzer, P. (2025). A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia. Nature, 641(8062), 438–446. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08800-x
Note: Eyting and Xie share first authorship.
Lemp, J. M., Bommer, C., Xie, M., Michalik, F., Jani, A., Davies, J. I., Bärnighausen, T., Vollmer, S., & Geldsetzer, P. (2023). Quasi-experimental evaluation of a nationwide diabetes prevention programme. Nature, 624(7990), 138–144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06756-4
* These authors contributed equally.
For the full list of publications, please refer to my ORCID or Personal Website.
Contact information
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.3
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Email: min.xie@uni-heidelberg.de