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Exposure assessment; Air pollution and health; Climate change and health; Biostatistics

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Biography

Dr. Yuming Guo (MD, PhD) is a Distinguished Professor of Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and he is the Head of the Monash Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit. He is an elected Member (Fellow) of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Guo holds prestigious fellowships, including the NHMRC Leader Fellowship (Level 1) and Career Development Fellowships (Levels 1 and 2). His research spans environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, global environmental change, air pollution, climate change, urban design, residential environment, remote sensing modeling, and infectious disease modeling.

He has led or contributed to several large-scale international collaborations evaluating the impacts of air pollution, residential environments, and climate change on human health. His research is primarily supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, Victorian Department of Health, and the Wellcome Trust.

Dr. Guo has an exceptional publication record, with over 600 high-quality papers in leading international journals such as NEJM, The Lancet, BMJ, Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, PLoS Medicine, Nature Communications, JAMA Pediatrics, JACC, Circulation, Thorax, The Lancet Planetary Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Environment International. His work is widely recognized, garnering over 150,000 citations and an H-index of 111.

He has received numerous awards, including the Reuters Hot List of the World’s Top Climate Scientists, the Tony McMichael Award from the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, the NHMRC Research Excellence Award, the Young Tall Poppy Science Award, the Rising Star of Australian Researchers, and the Best Young Scientist award from The Lancet-CAMS Committee. He has also been recognized with the Monash SPHPM Mid-Career Research Excellence Award, the AMREP Public Health Research Mid-Career Researcher Best Paper Award, and several "Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper" honors from the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology.

Dr. Guo is a member of Australia's Think Tank for Climate Change and Human Health. He serves on multiple research grant review committees and sits on the editorial boards of PLoS Medicine, Environmental Health Perspectives, Environment International, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Science & Technology, and The Innovation.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Research area keywords

  • Public Health
  • Air Quality
  • climate change
  • environmental health and safety of nanotechnology
  • Global Health
  • Biostatistics
  • Time Series
  • Case study
  • Spatial temporal statistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial intelligence

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