Summary
Dr. Yiqun HAN is a postdoc research associate in the Environmental Research Group. With the background of medicine and environmental science, Yiqun’s research lie on the interdisciplinary area of environmental epidemiology, focus on the effect of air pollution exposure to human health. Yiqun has participated as key investigator in multiple large panel/cohort studies of healthy and susceptible population (AIRLESS, SCOPE, COPD etc.).
Yiqun’s work focuses on the cutting-edge in the fields, including:
- to apply statistical model in high-dimensional exposure and health dataset;
- to apply novel sensor technologies in human-based studies to explore the underlying biological mechanisms;
- to associated the changes in a wide range of biomarkers, including metabolome and transcriptome signatures, in responses to the exposure to air pollutants.
Additional roles
Professional membership: Steering Committee Member of International Society of Environmental Epidemiology Student and new researchers network (ISEE-SNRN), 2016-2018
Peer reviewer: Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Pollution, Science of the Total Environment, Journal Of Exposure Science And Environmental Epidemiology
Organizer of journal club in Environmental Research Group (ERG), Imperial
Key research projectS
- Effects of AIR pollution on cardiopuLmonary disEaSe in urban and peri-urban reSidents in Beijing (AIRLESS) - 2016 onwards
- A Prospective Study Comparing the Cardiometabolic and Respiratory Effects of Air Pollution Exposure on Healthy and Pre-diabetic Individuals (SCOPE) - 2012-2016
- Evaluation technology for the health risk of atmospheric fine particle. (China MOST 863 Project) 2008-2011.
Publications
Journals
Xu Y, Han Y, Chen W, et al. , 2024, Susceptibility of hypertensive individuals to acute blood pressure increases in response to personal-level environmental temperature decrease., Environ Int, Vol:185
Li H, Han Y, Wang T, et al. , 2023, Development and validation of a simple and rapid HILIC-MS/MS method for the quantification of low-abundant lysoglycerophospholipids in human plasma, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Vol:415, ISSN:1618-2642, Pages:411-425
Li J, Cai YS, Kelly FJ, et al. , 2023, Landscape fire smoke enhances the association between fine particulate matter exposure and acute respiratory infection among children under 5 years of age: findings of a case-crossover study for 48 low- and middle-income countries, Environment International, Vol:171, ISSN:0160-4120
Chatzidiakou L, Krause A, Kellaway M, et al. , 2022, Automated classification of time-activity-location patterns for improved estimation of personal exposure to air pollution, Environmental Health, Vol:21, ISSN:1476-069X
Tong M, Li P, Wang M, et al. , 2022, Time-varying association between fetal death and gestational exposure to ambient fine particles: a nationwide epidemiological study of 49 million fetuses in the contiguous US from 1989 to 2004, International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol:51, ISSN:0300-5771, Pages:1984-1999