Shao Lin
Chair & Professor
College of Integrated Health Sciences
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Education
Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
Residence: Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-CH
M.D., Sun Yet-Sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China
About
Research Interests
- Climate change and extreme weather on human health outcomes
- Disaster epidemiology and public health (WTC 9/11 disaster, Hurricane Sandy etc.)
- School environmental factors and children’s health, attendance and performance
- Maternal occupation, medication use or pesticide exposure and birth defects
- Childhood asthma/ respiratory diseases and environmental exposures
- International collaborative research
- Air pollution, traffic exposures, proximity to industrial facilities/ hazardous wastes on health
- Evaluation of environmental policy’s impact on respiratory health
- Heavy metal exposures and adverse birth outcomes
- Fish consumption and heavy metal exposures
- Environmental and occupational epidemiology