Liuhua Shi
Research Assistant Professor
Faculty, Environmental Health
My research focuses on employing massive datasets, including satellite-retrieved high resolution exposures and health data of all Medicare beneficiaries, to investigate how climate change and air pollution influence mortality and chornic health conditions (e.g., neurological disorders and cardiovascular diseases), and better frame environmental policy. More specifically, my research is focused on five main topics: (1) application of remote sensing in environmental exposure modeling (e.g., predicting high-resolution particulate matter, PM2.5 components, ozone, NO2, and temperature); (2) estimating the health consequences of exposure to air pollutants and climate change, and environmental health disparities; (3) estimating the link between climate change and air quality, and the mediated health impacts; (4) estimating the joint and independent health effects of air pollutant mixtures; (5) statistical modeling, e.g., causal modeling and big data approach.
For a full list of up-to-date publications, visit my Google Scholars Page.
Contact Information
Rollins School of Public Health , 1518 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta , GA 30322
Phone: 404-727-9979
Email: liuhua.shi@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Air Pollution
- Climate and Health
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology
- Exposure Assessment
- Statistical Modeling
Affiliations & Activities
Member, Lancet Countdown project (2020)
Member, HERCULES Exposome Research Center
Member, Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC)
Member, Climate@Emory
Selected Media Coverage:
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/curated-collections/2018-JIF (EHP's 2018 Journal Impact Factor Collection)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-deaths-in-us-study/
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/heres-how-climate-change-might-kill-people-n391226
Publications
- Wei, Y., Wang, Y., Wu, X., Di, Q., Shi, L., Koutrakis, P., Zanobetti, A., Dominici, F., Schwartz, J., 2020, Causal effects of air pollution on mortality in Massachusetts, American Journal of Epidemiology , ,
- Shi, L., Wu, X., Yazdi, M., Braun, D., Awad, Y.A., Wei, Y., Liu, P., Di, Q., Wang, Y., Schwartz, J., Dominici, F., Kioumourtzoglou, M.A., Zanobetti, A., 2020, Long-term Effects of Fine Particulate Matter on Neurological Disorders in the US Medicare Population: a nationwide analysis, The Lancet Planetary Health , (In press),
- Yu, W., Guo, Y., Shi. L., Li, S., 2020, Low-level PM2.5 and cause-specific mortality in the State of Queensland, Australia: A modelling study with the difference-in-differences approach, PLoS Medicine , 17(6): e1003141.,
- Qiu, X., Fong, K.C., Shi, L., Papatheodorou, S., Di, Q., Just, A., Kosheleva, A., Messerlian, C. and Schwartz, J.D., 2020, Prenatal exposure to particulate air pollution and gestational age at delivery in Massachusetts neonates 2001–2015: A perspective of causal modeling and health disparities., Environmental Epidemiology, 4,
- Watts et al. (including Shi, L.), 2020, The 2020 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change , The Lancet (In press), ,
- Liang, D., Shi, L., Zhao, J., Liu, P., Sarnat, J.A, Gao, S., Schwartz, J., Liu, Y., Ebelt, S.T, Scovronick, N., Chang, H.H, 2020, Urban Air Pollution May Enhance COVID-19 CaseFatality and Mortality Rates in the United States, The Innovation, ,
- Di, Q., Amini, H., Shi, L., Kloog, I., Silvern, R.F., Kelly, J.T., Sabath, M.B., Choirat, C., Koutrakis, P., Lyapustin, A. and Wang, Y., 2019, Assessing NO2 Concentration and Model Uncertainty with High Spatiotemporal Resolution across the Contiguous United States Using Ensemble Model Averaging, Environmental Science & Technology, ,
- Wang, Y., Shi, L., Lee, M., Liu, P., Di, Q., Zanobetti, A. and Schwartz, J., 2017, Long-term exposure to PM2. 5 and mortality among older adults in the southeastern US, Epidemiology, 28, 207
- Shi, L., Kloog, I., Zanobetti, A., Liu, P., & Schwartz, J. , 2015, Impacts of temperature and its variability on mortality in New England, Nature Climate Change, 5, 988
- Shi, L., Zanobetti, A., Kloog, I., Coull, B., Koutrakis, P., Melly, S. and Schwartz, J., 2015, Low-concentration PM2. 5 and mortality: estimating acute and chronic effects in a population-based study*, Environmental Health Perspectives, 124, 46-52