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Biography
Dr. Yuming Guo (MD, PhD, FTSE, FAHMS, FASSA) 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 Fellow (Member) of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Academia Europaea, 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):
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
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Building Resilience to the Impacts of Heatwaves in Australia (BRIHA) Consortium
Bi, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Guo, Y. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Jay, O. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Bambrick, H. J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Chu, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Capon, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Liu, L. (Project Manager)
26/06/25 → 31/05/27
Project: Research
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Predicting lethal humidity and associated excess mortality
Guo, Y. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Meissner, K. J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Slater, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Abram, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Nazarian, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Hobeichi, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Matthews, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Saeed, F. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Huybers, P. (Chief Investigator (CI))
20/02/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Real-Time Prediction and Communication of the Risk Patterns in CVD Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Driven by Environmental Stressors
Guo, Y. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Li, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Song, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Xu, R. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/02/25 → 31/01/26
Project: Research
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Mortality risks associated with wildfire smoke
Guo, Y. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
1/02/25 → 31/01/26
Project: Research
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Designing streets for health: developing innovative methods and tools to make cycling safe, accessible and inclusive
Beck, B. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Kulic, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Caldwell Odgers, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Pettit, C. J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Winters, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Thompson, J. H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Pearson, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Guo, Y. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Alizadeh Mansouri, F. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Bigazzi, A. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Puterman , E. (Associate Investigator (AI))
1/01/24 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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A call for evidence-based adaptation: mitigating the rising global health burden of extreme heat
Li, T., Liu, Y., Du, P., Cai, W. & Guo, Y. (Leading Author), 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: The Lancet Planetary Health. 3 p., 101287.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Air pollution increases the risk of frailty: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)
Chen, Y., Xu, Z., Guo, Y., Li, S., Wang, Y. A. & Gasevic, D., 15 Jul 2025, In: Journal of Hazardous Materials. 492, 10 p., 138105.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access25 Citations (Scopus) -
Approaches in landscape fire smoke pregnancy research and the impact on offspring: A review of knowledge gaps and recommendations
Brew, B. K., Murphy, V. E., Collison, A. M., Mattes, J., Karmaus, W., Morgan, G., Jalaludin, B., Zosky, G., Guo, Y. & Gibson, P. G., 1 Jan 2025, In: Environmental Pollution. 364, Pt 2, 14 p., 125348.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
A Radiograph Dataset for the Classification, Localization, and Segmentation of Primary Bone Tumors
Yao, S., Huang, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, Y., Paixao, I. C., Wang, Z., Chai, C. L., Wang, H., Lu, D., Webb, G. I., Li, S., Guo, Y., Chen, Q. & Song, J., 16 Jan 2025, In: Scientific Data. 12, 1, 10 p., 88.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access7 Citations (Scopus) -
Association between wildfire-related PM2.5 and epigenetic aging: A twin and family study in Australia
Wu, Y. (Leading Author), Xu, R. (Leading Author), Li, S., Wen, B., Southey, M. C., Dugue, P. A., Hopper, J. L., Abramson, M. J., Li, S. (Leading Author) & Guo, Y. (Leading Author), 5 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Hazardous Materials. 481, 10 p., 136486.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper
Guo, Y. (Recipient) & Gasparrini, A. (Recipient), 2015
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Career Development Fellowship Level 1
Guo, Y. (Recipient), 2015
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Career Development Fellowship Level 2
Guo, Y. (Recipient), 2018
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Clean Air Society of Australia & New Zealand NSW/ACT Branch Clean Air Achievement Award
Abramson, M. (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, Y. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)