Jim Zhang
Professor, Global and Environmental Health
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Jim Zhang
Professor, Global and Environmental Health
Dr. Zhang joined the Duke Faculty in fall 2013 from the University of Southern California where he had been a professor of environmental and global health and the director of Environmental and Biomarkers Analysis Laboratory since 2010. His prior positions include professor, department chair, and associate dean at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Dr. Zhang has more than 140 peer-reviewed publications. His work has been featured in major international media such as the Time, the New York Times, BBC, ABC, CBS, Yahoo News, etc. His early work on characterizing sources of non-methane greenhouse gases made him one of the officially recognized contributor to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to IPCC. He is the 2012 recipient of the Jeremy Wesolowski Award, the highest award of the International Society of Exposure Science. He also received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Rutgers Graduate School.
Dr. Zhang's research interests include developing novel biomarkers of human exposure and health effects, assessing health and climate co-benefits of air pollution interventions, and examining biological mechanisms by which environmental exposures exert adverse health effects. Dr. Zhang has led a number of international collaborations to study air pollution health effects and underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms. He is currently leading two multidisciplinary, multi-institutional centers studying the health impact of engineered nanomaterials.
Projects
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Potential Pathophysiologic Mechanisms Linking Air Pollution Exposure in Pregnant Women to Reduced Birth Weight
China, United States
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Effects of Air Pollution on Cardiopulmonary Disease in Urban and Peri-urban Residents in Beijing (AIRLESS)
China, United States, United Kingdom
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Influence of Indoor Air Filtration Strategies on Occupant Health Indicators
China
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The combined influence of outdoor and indoor pollutants on acute respiratory response of school children in China
China
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Health Assessment and Control Mechanisms for PM2.5 and Co-pollutants in the Built Environment
China
- Prospective Evaluation of Air Pollution, Cognition, and Autism from Birth Onward
- Risk Assessment for Manufactured Nanoparticies Used in Consumer Products
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Air Pollution Particle Effects on Human Antimycobacterial Immunity (MexAir)
United States, Mexico
- Biological Response to Air Quality Change in Beijing Pre-, Mid- and Post-Olympics
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Prospective Evaluation of Air Pollution, Cognition, and Autism from Birth Onward (PECABO)
United States
Publications
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Yang Z, Liao J, Zhang Y, Lin Y, Ge Y, Chen W, et al. Critical windows of greenness exposure during preconception and gestational periods in association with birthweight outcomes. Environmental research, health : ERH. 2024 Mar;2(1):015001.Nassikas NJ, McCormack MC, Ewart G, Balmes JR, Bond TC, Brigham E, et al. Indoor Air Sources of Outdoor Air Pollution: Health Consequences, Policy, and Recommendations: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2024 Mar;21(3):365–76.Xu Y, Han Y, Chen W, Chatzidiakou L, Yan L, Krause A, et al. Susceptibility of hypertensive individuals to acute blood pressure increases in response to personal-level environmental temperature decrease. Environment international. 2024 Mar;185:108567.Romero-Gutierrez C, Koutrakis P, Liu M, Zilli Vieira CL, Coull BA, Maher EF, et al. Radon decay product particle radioactivity and oxidative stress biomarkers in patients with COPD. Environmental research. 2024 Jan;240(Pt 2):117505.
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