Jing Huang

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

Personal profile

Jing Huang is a research professor and doctoral supervisor of Department of Occupational & Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, and adjunct research professor of Institute for Global Health and Development, Peking University. She also serves as Secretary-General of the Environmental Medicine and Health Branch of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences and Director of the PKU Medicine-Zhongguancun Sanchuang Joint Laboratory for Smart City Healthy Environment Systems. She has led research projects funded by the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Science and Technology Major Project, etc. She has published more than 120 papers in journals including The Lancet Planetary Health, JAMA Psychiatry, and the European Heart Journal, and has been ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists for four consecutive years. She was selected for the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology and received awards including the 16th Beijing Outstanding Young Scientists’ Paper Award, the Second Prize of the Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award, the Second Prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Award, the Second Prize in the 11th Teaching Skills Competition for Young Faculty of Beijing Higher Education Institutions, the Peking University Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Peking University Zhengda Teaching Award.

Work Experience

Aug 2026 up to now, Research Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Peking University

Feb 2020 to July 2026, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Peking University

Aug 2013 to Jan 2020, Lecturer, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Peking University

Education Experience

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

Aug 2003 to July 2008, Bachelor of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, China

Main research directions

Environmental Exposure on Cardiometabolic Health and Preventive Strategies;

AI-enabled Assessment of Residential Environment, Chronic Disease Risk Prevention and Translation Applications

Representative scientific research projects

1. Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation of China (General Program), Role of hepcidin/FPN/SLC7A11-mediated ferroptosis in the dynamic progression of atherosclerosis induced by ozone exposure (No. 82473584), 2025 to 2028

2. Principal Investigator, National Science and Technology Major Project，Role of combined environmental exposures in the onset and progression of diabetes (No.2024ZD0531603), 2025 to 2029

3. Principal Investigator, PKU Medicine-Zhongguancun Sanchuang Joint Laboratory for Smart City Healthy Environment Systems, 2026 to 2029

4. Principal Investigator, 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 (No.81502780), 2016 to 2018

5. Principal Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Open Research Fund (No. KF2026-03), 2026 to 2028

6. Principal Investigator, The China Association for Science and Technology, Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program (No.2015QNRC001), 2015 to 2017

7. Principal Investigator, the Clinical Medicine Plus X-Young Scholars Project of Peking University, Aerosol generation-transmission-cross infection pathway chain in stomatology clinic (No. PKU2019LCXQ008), 2019

8. Principal Investigator, The PKU Global Health Young Scholar Fellowship Program, 2022 to 2023

9. Main Investigator, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Investigation of the whole chain causes and disease burden evaluation of air pollution (No.2023YFC3708300), 2023 to 2027

10. Main Investigator, National Key Research and Development Program of China, The formation mechanism, main control factors and the health effects of new indoor air pollutants SVOCs (No.2016YFC0207103), 2016 to 2020

10 representative papers

1. Huang J, Pan X, Guo X, Li G*. 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)

2. Yang T, Wang J, Huang J*, Kelly FJ, Li G*. 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，F1000 recommendation)

3.Jiang Y¹, Huang J¹, Li G, Wang W, Wang K, Wang J, Wei C, Li Y, Deng F, Baccarelli AA, Guo X, Wu S*. Ozone pollution and hospital admissions for cardiovascular events. European Heart Journal, 2023, 44(18): 1622-1632 (ESI high cited)

4. Wang J, Hu X, Yang T, Jin J, Hao J, Kelly FJ, Huang J*, Li G*. Ambient air pollution and the dynamic transitions of stroke and dementia: a population-based cohort study. eClinialMedicine, 2024, 67: 102368

5. Wang J, Jin J, Chen Y, Shen P, Sun Y, Jiang Z, Guo X, Wang H, Li G, Shui L, Huang J^*. High spatial resolution environmental noise assessment and its associations with risks of cardiovascular diseases based on digital healthcare data in China. Environment International, 2025, 198: 109408

6. Yang T, Hu X, Wang J, Rao S, Cai YS, Li G*, Huang J*, Rahimi K. 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

7. Huang J, Yang T, Gulliver J, Hansell AL, Mamouei M, Cai YS, Rahimi K*. Road Traffic Noise and Incidence of Primary Hypertension: A Prospective Analysis in UK Biobank. JACC: Advances, 2023, 2(2): 100262

8. Li G, Zhang K, Yang T, Jin J, Guo X, Cai YS, Huang J*. Air pollution, genetic susceptibility and risk of progression from asthma to COPD. Thorax, 2025, 81(1): 51-60.

9. Han X, Ding K, Li X, Ma Y, Liu Y, Huang J*, Chen D*. A digital-health multidomain lifestyle management framework and its associations with cardiometabolic health: a real-world observational study. BMC Medicine, 2026, 24(1): 285.

10. Shi J, Zhao Y, Xue L, Li G, Wu S, GuoX, Wang B, Huang J*. Urinary metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons after short-term fine particulate matter exposure: A randomized crossover trial of air filtration. Environmental Pollution, 2021, 285: 117258

*Corresponding author.