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 seniors' health. More specifically, my research is focused on: (1) application of remote sensing in environmental exposure modeling (e.g., predicting high-resolution PM2.5, ozone, NO2, and temperature); (2) estimating the health consequences of exposure to air pollution and climate change; (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.
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
- Neurologic Conditions
- Statistical Modeling
Education
- ScD 2016, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- M.S. 2012, Beijing Normal University
- B.S. 2009, Beijing Normal University
Courses Taught
- EH 515: Air Quality in the Urban Env.
- EH 587: Intro.toSatellite Remote Sens.
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
https://sph.emory.edu/news/news-release/2020/09/air-pollution-covid-deaths.html
Publications
- Gunthe, S., Liu, P., Panda, U., Raj, S., Sharma, A., Derbyshire, E., Reyes-Villegas, E., Allan, J., Chen, Y., Wang, X., Song, S., Pöhker, M., Shi, L., Wang, Y., Kommula, S., Ravikrishna, R., McFiggans, G., Mickley, L., Martin, S., Pöschl, U., Coe, H., 2021, Aerosol Particle Growth Sustained by High Continental Chlorine Emission in India, Nature Geoscience (Accepted), ,
- 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 PM2.5 on neurological disorders in the American Medicare population: a longitudinal cohort study, The Lancet Planetary Health , ,
- 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.,
- The 2020 Lancet Countdown team (including Shi, L.), 2020, The 2020 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change , The Lancet, ,
- 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