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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Yuming Guo is Professor of Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics & Head of the Monash Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit. He has been supported by NHMRC Leader Fellowship (Level 1) and Career Development Fellowship (Level 1 & 2). His research group focuses on environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, global environmental change, air pollution, climate change, urban design, residential environment, remote sensing modelling, and infectious disease modelling.
He has developed/participated in several large international collaborations to assess the impacts of air pollution, residential environment and climate change on human health. His research is primarily supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, and China Natural Science Foundation.
He is appointed as an adjunct professor by The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, The University of Oulu (Finland). He was awarded visiting fellowship of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
He has published extensively (over 400 high quality papers) in prestigious international journals including the highest-ranked journals (NEJM, Lancet, BMJ, Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Climate Change, PLoS Medicine, Nature Communications, Thorax, The Lancet Planetary Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, Environment International, etc). His works are highly cited, with >49,000 citations and H-index of 75.
His work was awarded NHMRC Career Development Fellowship, NHMRC Investigator Grant, the Reuters Hot List of The World’s Top Climate Scientists, the Tony McMichael Award by International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Young Tall Poppy Award by Australian Institute of Policy and Sciences, NHMRC Research Excellence Award, Rising Star of Australian Researchers by The Australian, Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper by International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Monash SPHPM Mid-Career Research Excellence Award, AMREP Public Health Research Mid-Career Researcher Best Paper Award, and he is awarded Best Young Scientist by the Lancet-CAMS Committee.
He is a member of Think Tank for Climate Change and Human Health in Australia. He sits in many research grant review committees and editorial board of PLoS Medicine (IF 11.8), Environmental Health Perspectives (IF 9.05), and Environment International (IF 9.5), The Innovation (Estimated IF 28).
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):
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
Network
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Validate and quantify the benefits of introducing air purification technologies in buses
23/03/22 → 23/03/23
Project: Research
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AI for estimating global bushfire smoke and its health burden
Guo, Y., Ge, Z., Li, S. & Song, J.
1/09/21 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
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National Environment Science Program (NESP 2) - Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub – Project IP4.01 – Air quality research
1/07/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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Climate Change and Human Health in Asia: Current Impacts, Future Risks, and Health Benefits of Mitigation Policies
Guo, Y., Capon, T., Bi, P., Jalaludin, B., Zhang, Y., Green, D., Hu, W., Arblaster, J., Li, S., Phung, D., Huxley, R., Li, T., Kan, H., Kim, H. H., Hales, S., Peng, W., Binti Mahjom, M. & Phuleria, H.
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Association between ambient temperature and hospitalization for renal diseases in Brazil during 2000–2015: A nationwide case-crossover study
Wen, B., Xu, R., Wu, Y., Coêlho, M. D. S. Z. S., Hilario Nascimento Saldiva, P., Guo, Y. & Li, S., Feb 2022, In: The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 6, 13 p., 100101.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Association of Residential Greenness with the Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in a Rural Chinese Population: the Henan Rural Cohort Study
He, Y. L., Liu, X. T., Tu, R. Q., Pan, M. M., Niu, M. M., Chen, G. B., Hou, J., Mao, Z. X., Huo, W. Q., Li, S. S., Guo, Y. M. & Wang, C. J., Jan 2022, In: Biomedical and Environmental Sciences. 35, 1, p. 89-94 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research › peer-review
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Authors’ reply for “Considerations about causality in observational studies”
Wen, B., Xu, R., Wu, Y., Coêlho, M. D. S. Z. S., Saldiva, P. H. N., Guo, Y. & Li, S., Feb 2022, In: The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 6, 2 p., 100137.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
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Deep Ensemble Machine Learning Framework for the Estimation of PM2:5 Concentrations
Yu, W., Li, S., Ye, T., Xu, R., Song, J. & Guo, Y., Mar 2022, In: Environmental Health Perspectives. 130, 3, 11 p., 037004.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Excess emergency department visits for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases during the 2019–20 bushfire period in Australia: A two-stage interrupted time-series analysis
Wen, B., Wu, Y., Xu, R., Guo, Y. & Li, S., 25 Feb 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 809, 7 p., 152226.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper
Guo, Yuming (Recipient) & Gasparrini, A. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Career Development Fellowship Level 1
Guo, Yuming (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Career Development Fellowship Level 2
Guo, Yuming (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Clean Air Society of Australia & New Zealand NSW/ACT Branch Clean Air Achievement Award
Abramson, Michael (Recipient), Marks, G. (Recipient), Jalaludin, B. (Recipient), Morawska, L. (Recipient), Dharmage, S. C. (Recipient), Johnston, F. (Recipient), Morgan, G. (Recipient), Heyworth, J. (Recipient), Zosky, G. (Recipient) & Guo, Yuming (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)