Jing Huang

Assistant professor
jing_huang@bjmu.edu.cn
Xueyuan Road 38, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Peking University

Personal profile

Jing Huang is the assistant Professor and doctoral supervisor in Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Peking University, and the visiting scholar in the University of Oxford, UK. Her research mainly focuses on health impacts of air pollution and mechanism exploration, as well as the environment and healthy city research. She has been selected as one of the top 2% global scientists in 2023, and the Chinese Association for Science and Technology Youth Support Project and Peking University’s Global Health Development Award Program for Young Scholars. She has been awarded with the 16th Beijing Youth Excellent Science and Technology Paper Prize, Environmental Protection Science and Technology Prize, Second Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Prize, the Second Prize of the 11th Beijing Youth Teacher Teaching Basic Skills Competition, and Excellent Teaching Prize from Peking University.

She has published over 70 papers as the first/corresponding author, including the Lancet Planetary Health, JAMA Psychiatry, European Heart Journal, eClinicalMedicine, JACC: Heart Failure, etc. Among the publications, there are 3 ESI high cited paper, 1 F1000 research, and 1 research was selected as the outstanding research in the field of cardiovascular medicine in Asia in 2013. She is the secretary of Environmental Medicine and Health Branch of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, and the vice chairman of the youth committee of Beijing Environmental Mutagen Society.

Education and Work Experience:

2003-2008 Bachelor of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, China

2008-2013 Ph.D of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Peking University, China

2013-2019 Lecturer, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Peking University, China

2020 up to now Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Peking University, China

2021 to 2022 Academic Visitor, Deep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, UK

Main research directions

Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Mechanism Exploration

Environment and Healthy City Research

Representative scientific research projects

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Fund), The regulation effects of F2RL3 gene methylation on the influence of PM2.5 exposure on blood coagulation, 81502780, 2016-2018, Principal Investigator

2. National Key Research and Development Program of China, Investigation of the whole chain causes and disease burden evaluation of air pollution, 2023-2027, 2023YFC3708300，Main Investigator

3. National Key Research and Development Program of China, The formation mechanism, main control factors and the health effects of new indoor air pollutants SVOCs, 2016YFC0207103, 2016-2020, Main Investigator

4. The China Association for Science and Technology, Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program, 2015QNRC001, 2015-2017, Principal Investigator

5. Peking University, the Clinical Medicine Plus X-Young Scholars Project of Peking University, Aerosol generation-transmission-cross infection pathway chain in stomatology clinic, PKU2019LCXQ008, 2019, Principal Investigator

6. Beijing Science and Technology Commission, The development and demonstration of indoor pollutants control technology based on the fresh air ventilation and purification technology, Z161100000716008, 2016- 2018, Main Investigator

7. The PKU Global Health Young Scholar Fellowship, 2022-2023, Principal Investigator

10 representative papers

10 representative papers as the first or corresponding authors

1. Jing Huang, Xiaochuan Pan, Xinbiao Guo, Guoxing Li*. Health impact of China’s Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan: an analysis of national air quality monitoring and mortality data. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2018, 2(7): e313-e323 (ESI high cited paper)

2. Teng Yang, Jaiwei Wang, Jing Huang*, Frank J Kelly, Guoxing Li*. Long-term Exposure to Multiple Ambient Air Pollutants and Association With Incident Depression and Anxiety. JAMA Psychiatry, 2023, 80(4): 305-313 (ESI high cited paper, F1000 recommendation)

3. Yunxing Jiang1, Jing Huang1, Guoxing Li, Wanzhou Wang, Kai Wang, Jinxi Wang, Chen Wei, Yinxiang Li, Furong Deng, Andrea A Baccarelli, Xinbiao Guo, Shaowei Wu*. Ozone pollution and hospital admissions for cardiovascular events. European Heart Journal, 2023, 44(18): 1622-1632 (ESI high cited paper)

4. Jiawei Wang, Xin Hu, Teng Yang, Jianbo Jin, Junwei Hao, Frank J Kelly, Jing Huang*, Guoxing Li*. Ambient air pollution and the dynamic transitions of stroke and dementia: a population-based cohort study. eClinialMedicine, 2024, 67: 102368 (Part of the Lancet Discovery Science)

5. Jing Huang, Teng Yang, John Gulliver, Anna L. Hansell, Mohammad Mamouei, Yutong Samuel Cai, Kazem Rahimi*. Road Traffic Noise and Incidence of Primary Hypertension: A Prospective Analysis in UK Biobank. JACC: Advances, 2023, 2(2): 100262 (American College of Cardiology Press Release, Report by BBC News)

6. Teng Yang, Xin Hu, Jiawei Wang, Shishir Rao, Yutong Samuel Cai, Guoxing Li*, Jing Huang*, Kazem Rahimi. Long-term exposure to road traffic noise and incident heart failure: evidence from UK Biobank. JACC: Heart Failure, 2023, 11 (8 Pt 1): 986-996 (Editorial Comment in JACC Heart Failure)

7. Guoxing Li 1, Jing Huang 1, Jinwei Wang 1, Minghui Zhao, Yang Liu, Xinbiao Guo, Shaowei Wu*, Luxia Zhang*. Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and increased risk of chronic kidney disease prevalence in China. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2021, 32(2): 448-458 (People’s Daily Health Client Excerpt)

8. Jing Huang, Xiaochuan Pan, Xinbiao Guo, Guoxing Li*. Impacts of air pollution wave on years of life lost: A crucial way to communicate the health risks of air pollution to the public. Environment International, 2018, 113: 42-49 (Report by Medscape)

9. Jiawei Wang, Jiazhang Shi, Yan Zhao, Lijun Xue, Guoxing Li, Bin Wang, Jing Huang*, Shaowei Wu*, Xinbiao Guo. Cardiorespiratory responses in healthy young adults with exposure to indoor airborne PAEs: A randomized, crossover trail of air purification. Environment International, 2021, 156: 106761 (Reported by Occupational and Environmental Medicine Official Account)

10. Yan Zhao, Lijue Xue, Qiao Chen, Minghao Kou, Zemin Wang, Shaowei Wu, Jing Huang*, Xinbiao Guo*. Cardiorespiratory responses to fine particles during ambient PM2.5 pollution waves: Findings from a randomized crossover trial in young healthy adults. Environment International, 2020, 139: 105590 (Reported by Occupational and Environmental Medicine Official Account)

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