Pin Wang
Dr. Pin Wang is an environmental health specialist with a particular focus on climate epidemiology. Before joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Wang trained as a postdoctoral associate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Public Health and Primary Care and Yale University School of Public Health. His research explores the health impacts of historical climate variations, their potential future projections, as well as other environmental stressors such as noise, traffic heat, urban heat island, and unfavorable built environment. Dr. Wang's current work examines how climate-change-related extreme events affect population health, with broader research interests in the health impact of both short-term weather variations and long-term climate change, the interaction of human adaptation and mitigation, urban environmental epidemiology, statistical methodology in environmental epidemiology modeling, the interplay between climate change and air pollution, and climate justice.
Dr. Wang is accepting PhD students for the Fall 2025 application cycle.
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Areas of Interest
Core FacultyClimate change, extreme events, natural disasters, air pollution, compound hazard, climate epidemiology, environmental health, global health
Ph.D., Public Health, 2016
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
MPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2012
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
BM, Forensic Medicine, 2006
Sichuan University, China
Wang P, Rogne T, Warren JL, Asare EO, Akum RA, Toure ND, Ross JS, Chen K. Long-term drought and risk of infant mortality in Africa: A cross-sectional study. PLoS medicine. 2025 Jan 31;22(1):e1004516.
Li JJ, Wang P, Sutton C, Harker R, Xue T, Chen K. Landscape Fire Air Pollution as a Mediator in Drought and Childhood Stunting Pathway in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. Environmental Science & Technology. 2024 Sep 11;58(38):16728-37.
Rogne T, Wang R, Wang P, Deziel NC, Metayer C, Wiemels JL, Chen K, Warren JL, Ma X. High ambient temperature in pregnancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: an observational study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2024 Jul 1;8(7):e506-14.
Wang P, Asare EO, Pitzer VE, Dubrow R, Chen K. Floods and diarrhea risk in young children in low-and middle-income countries. JAMA Pediatrics. 2023 Nov 1;177(11):1206-14.
Wang P, O'Donnell KJ, Warren JL, Dubrow R, Chen K. Temperature variability and birthweight: epidemiological evidence from Africa. Environment International. 2023 Mar 1;173:107792.
Wang P, Xiang H, Guo M, Shi Y, Chong KC, Huang J, Ho HC. Indoor and roadside exposures to traffic noise and cardiovascular mortality and the role of urban environmental stressors across a high-rise, high-density environment: A case study in Hong Kong. Building and Environment. 2023 Feb 1;229:109945.
Wang P, Asare E, Pitzer VE, Dubrow R, Chen K. Associations between long-term drought and diarrhea among children under five in low-and middle-income countries. Nature Communications. 2022 Jun 30;13(1):1-0.
Wang P, Tong HW, Lee TC, Goggins WB. Projecting future temperature-related mortality using annual time series data: An example from Hong Kong. Environmental Research. 2022 Sep 1;212:113351.
Yoo EH, Roberts JE, Eum Y, Li X, Chu L, Wang P, Chen K. Short-term exposure to air pollution and mental disorders: a case-crossover study in New York City. Environmental Research: Health. 2022 Nov 1;1(1):015001.
Chong KC, Chen Y, Chan EY, Lau SY, Lam HC, Wang P, Goggins WB, Ran J, Zhao S, Mohammad KN, Wei Y. Association of weather, air pollutants, and seasonal influenza with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospitalization risks. Environmental Pollution. 2022 Jan 15;293:118480.
Wang P, Goggins WB, Shi Y, Zhang XY, Ren C, Lau KK. Long-term association between urban air ventilation and mortality in Hong Kong. Environmental Research. 2021 Jun 1;197:111000.
Wang P, Zhang X, Hashizume M, Goggins WB, Luo C. A systematic review on lagged associations in climate–health studies. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2021 Aug 1;50(4):1199-212.
Chong KC, Ran J, Lau SY, Goggins WB, Zhao S, Wang P, Tian L, Wang MH, Mohammad KN, Wei L, Xiong X. Limited role for meteorological factors on the variability in COVID-19 incidence: A retrospective study of 102 Chinese cities. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2021 Feb 24;15(2):e0009056.
Chong KC, Chan EY, Lee TC, Kwok KL, Lau SY, Wang P, Lam HC, Goggins WB, Mohammad KN, Leung SY, Chan PK. A 21-year retrospective analysis of environmental impacts on paediatric acute gastroenteritis in an affluent setting. Science of The Total Environment. 2021 Apr 10;764:142845.
Wang P, Goggins WB, Zhang X, Ren C, Lau KK. Association of urban built environment and socioeconomic factors with suicide mortality in high-density cities: A case study of Hong Kong. Science of The Total Environment. 2020 Jun 5:139877.
Wang P, Goggins WB, Chan EY. Associations of Salmonella hospitalizations with ambient temperature, humidity and rainfall in Hong Kong. Environment International. 2018 Nov 1;120:223-30.
Wang P, Goggins WB, Chan EY. A time-series study of the association of rainfall, relative humidity and ambient temperature with hospitalizations for rotavirus and norovirus infection among children in Hong Kong. Science of the Total Environment. 2018 Dec 1;643:414-22..
Wang P, Zhao H, You F, Zhou H, Goggins WB. Seasonal modeling of hand, foot, and mouth disease as a function of meteorological variations in Chongqing, China. International Journal of Biometeorology. 2017 Aug;61(8):1411-9.
Wang P, Goggins WB, Chan EY. Hand, foot and mouth disease in Hong Kong: a time-series analysis on its relationship with weather. PloS One. 2016 Aug 17;11(8):e0161006.