YSPH Climate Change and Health Seminar with Dr. Yang Liu

Dr. Yang Liu is the Gangarosa Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. His work focuses on developing data-driven methods and scalable frameworks to understand how environmental exposures affect human health, with a focus on air pollution, extreme weather, and non-communicable diseases. Over the past 17 years, Dr. Liu has led many federally funded projects to apply satellite data in air pollution exposure and health effects modeling and study the health impacts of various environmental stressors such as air pollution, extreme heat, wildland fires, pollen and UV radiation, as well as the associated health impacts including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and mental health issues. He was an ORISE faculty fellow at the National Center for Environmental Health at the US CDC, a science team member of the NASA Terra MISR missions (2008-2025), and a PI member of the NASA HAQAST Team (2011-2026). He is currently a science team member of the NASA EVI-3 MAIA mission and director of the NIH-funded Climate & Health Actionable Research and Translation Center (CHART).