Dr. Yang Liu

Address:
Emory University
Faculty Profile

Yang Liu is an associate professor in Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. Liu’s research interests include the application of satellite remote sensing in air pollution exposure modeling and health effects studies at urban to national scales as well as the potential impacts of global climate change on public health.

Yang’s HAQAST work proposes translate research knowledge to our public health partners in two projects.

First, building on our long-standing collaboration with CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network), we will conduct a national scale epidemiological study to link age-specific county-level daily counts of emergency department (ED) visits with fused air pollution exposure estimates from satellite observations, model simulations and EPA ground measurements to demonstrate an important application of Tracking’s environmental health surveillance data.
Second, partnering with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), we will conduct a multi-year time-series epidemiological study to evaluate the health impact of air pollution levels elevated by wildfires in Colorado.

Tiger Teams

Yang contributes to the following Tiger Teams:

Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Derive Global Climate and Air Pollution Indicators, led by Susan Anenberg.
Demonstration of the Efficacy of Environmental Regulations in the Eastern US, led by Bryan Duncan and Jason West.
High Resolution Paticulate Matter Data for Improved Satellite-Based Assessments of Community Health, led by Patrick Kinney.

HAQAST Presentations

Publications

2020

Estimating PM2.5 in Southern California using satellite data: factors that affect model performance

Dr Jennifer D Stowell, Mr Jianzhao Bi, Dr Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Dr Hyung Joo Lee, Dr Sang-Mi Lee, Dr Frank Freedman, Dr Patrick L Kinney, Dr Yang Liu, Environmental Research Letters

Long-term exposure to PM2. 5 and incidence of disability in activities of daily living among oldest old

Yuebin Lv, Jinhui Zhou, Virginia, Byers Kraus, Tiantian Li, Jeremy A. Sarnat, Jiaonan Wang, Yang Liu, Huashuai Chen, Melanie Sereny Brasher, Chen Mao, Yi Zeng, Tongzhang Zheng, Xiaoming Shi, Environmental Pollution

Random forest models for PM2.5 speciation concentrations using MISR fractional AODs

Guannan Geng, Xia Meng, Kebin He, Yang Liu, Environmental Research Letters

Geographic and population disparities of COPD prevalence in China: a spatial analysis of a national study

Wang N, Cong S, Fan J, Bao H, Wang B, Yang T, Feng Y, Liu Y, Wang L, Wang C, Hu W, Fang L, International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Critical windows for maternal fine particulate matter exposure and adverse birth outcomes: The Shanghai birth cohort study

Lei Yuan, Yan Zhang, Weidong Wang, Renjie Chen, Yang Liu, Cong Liu, Haidong Kan, Yu Gao, Ying Tian, Chemosphere

Incorporating Low-Cost Sensor Measurements into High-Resolution PM2.5 Modeling at a Large Spatial Scale

Jianzhao Bi, Avani Wildani, Howard H. Chang, Yang Liu, Environmental Science & Technology

Spatial Particulate Fields during High Winds in the Imperial Valley, California

Frank R. Freedman, Paul English, Jeff Wagner, Yang Liu, Akula Venkatram, Daniel Q. Tong, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Meytar Sorek-Hamer, Robert Chatfield, Ana Rivera and Patrick L. Kinney

Keyong Huang, Jianzhao Bi, XiaMeng, Guannan Geng, Alexei Lyapustin, Kevin J. Lane, Dongfeng Gu, Patrick L. Kinney, Yang Liu, Chemosphere

Contribution of low-cost sensor measurements to the prediction of PM2.5 levels: A case study in Imperial County, California, USA

Jianzhao Bi, Jennifer Stowell, Edmund Y.W. Seto, Paul B. English, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Patrick L. Kinney, Frank R. Freedman, Yang Liu, Environmental Research

Estimating PM2.5 Concentration of the Continental United States via Interpretable Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Yongbee Park, Byungjoon Kwon, Juyeon Heo, Xuefei Hu, Yang Liu, Taesup Moon, Environmental Pollution

Estimating daily PM_2.5 concentrations in New York City at the neighborhood-scale: Implications for integrating non-regulatory measurements

Keyong Huang, Jianzhao Bi, Xia Meng, Guannan Geng, Alexei Lyapustin, Kevin J. Lane, Dongfeng Gu, Patrick L. Kinney, Yang Liu

Associations of wildfire smoke PM2. 5 exposure with cardiorespiratory events in Colorado 2011–2014

Jennifer D. Stowell, Guannan Geng, Eri Saikawa, Howard H. Chang, Joshua Fu, Cheng-En Yang, Qingzhao Zhu, Yang Liu, Matthew J. Strickland, Environmental International

Time-series analysis of ambient PM2.5 and cardiorespiratory emergency room visits in Lima, Peru during 2010–2016

V. Tapia, K. Steenland, S. E. Sarnat, B. Vu, Y. Liu, O. Sánchez-Ccoyllo, V. Vasquez, G. F. Gonzales, Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology

The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

Nick Watts, MA; Markus Amann, PhD; Prof Nigel Arnell, PhD; Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, PhD; Kristine Belesova, PhD; Prof Maxwell Boykoff, PhD; Prof Peter Byass, PhD; Prof Wenjia Cai, PhD; Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, DPhil; Stuart Capstick, PhD; Jonathan Chambers, PhD; Carole Dalin, PhD; Meaghan Daly, PhD; Niheer Dasandi, PhD; Prof Michael Davies, PhD; Paul Drummond, MSc; Prof Robert Dubrow, PhD; Prof Kristie L Ebi, PhD; Matthew Eckelman, PhD; Prof Paul Ekins, PhD; Luis E Escobar, PhD; Lucia Fernandez Montoya, MSc; Lucien Georgeson, PhD; Prof Hilary Graham, PhD; Paul Haggar, PhD; Ian Hamilton, PhD; Stella Hartinger, PhD; Jeremy Hess, PhD; Prof Ilan Kelman, PhD; Gregor Kiesewetter, PhD; Prof Tord Kjellstrom, PhD; Prof Dominic Kniveton, PhD; Bruno Lemke, PhD; Prof Yang Liu, PhD; Melissa Lott, PhD; Rachel Lowe, PhD; Maquins Odhiambo Sewe, PhD; Prof Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, PhD; Prof Mark Maslin, PhD; Lucy McAllister, PhD; Alice McGushin, MSc; Prof Slava Jankin Mikhaylov, PhD; James Milner, PhD; Prof Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, MD; Karyn Morrissey, PhD; Kris Murray, PhD; Prof Simon Munzert, PhD; Maria Nilsson, PhD; Tara Neville, MSc; Prof Tadj Oreszczyn, PhD; Fereidoon Owfi, PhD; Olivia Pearman, MEM; David Pencheon, BM; Dung Phung, PhD; Steve Pye, PhD; Ruth Quinn, PhD; Mahnaz Rabbaniha, PhD; Prof Elizabeth Robinson, PhD; Prof Joacim Rocklöv, PhD; Prof Jan C Semenza, PhD; Jodi Sherman, MD; Joy Shumake-Guillemot, DrPh; Meisam Tabatabaei, PhD; Jonathon Taylor, PhD; Joaquin Trinanes, PhD; Prof Paul Wilkinson, FRCP; Prof Anthony Costello, FMedSci; Prof Peng Gong, PhD; Prof Hugh Montgomery, MD, The Lancet

Combining Satellite Imagery and Numerical Model Simulation to Estimate Ambient Air Pollution: An Ensemble Averaging Approach

Nancy L. Murray, Heather A. Holmes, Yang Liu, Howard H. Chang, Environmental Research

Predicting gestational personal exposure to PM2.5 from satellite-driven ambient concentrations in Shanghai

Qingyang Zhu, Bin Xia, Yingya Zhao, Haixia Dai, Yuhan Zhou, Ying Wang, Qing Yang, Yan Zhao, Pengpeng Wang, Xuena La, Huijing Shi, Yang Liu, Yunhui Zhang, Chemosphere

On the accuracy and potential of Google Maps location history data to characterize individual mobility for air pollution health studies

Xiaonan Yu, Amy L. Stuart, Yang Liu, Cesunica E. Ivey, Armistead G. Russell, Haidong Kan, Lucas R.F. Henneman, Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat, Samiul Hasan, Anwar Sadmani, Xuchao Yang, Haofei Yu, Environmental Pollution

Impact of China’s Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan on PM2.5 chemical composition over eastern China

Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao, Yixuan Zheng, Dan Tong, Yuxuan Zhang, Xiaoye Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He, Yang Liu, Science China Earth Sciences

Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Hypertension Incidence in China: The China-PAR Cohort Study

Keyong Huang, Xueli Yang, Fengchao Liang, Fangchao Liu, Jianxin Li, Qingyang Xiao, Jichun Chen, Xiaoqing Liu, Jie Cao, Chong Shen, Ling Yu, Fanghong Lu, Xianping Wu, Liancheng Zhao, Xigui Wu, Ying Li, Dongsheng Hu, Jianfeng Huang, Yang Liu, Xiangfeng Lu, Dongfeng Gu, Hypertension

Effects of air pollution control policies on PM2.5 pollution improvement in China from 2005 to 2017: a satellite-based perspective

Zongwei Ma, Riyang Liu, Yang Liu, and Jun Bi, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Compilation and spatio-temporal analysis of publicly available total solar and UV irradiance data in the contiguous United States

Ying Zhou, Xia Meng, Jessica Hartmann Belle, Huanxin Zhang, Caitlin Kennedy, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Jun Wang, Yang Liu, Envionrmental Pollution

Air Pollution Monitoring for Health Research and Patient Care. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report

Kevin R Cromar, Bryan N Duncan, Alena Bartonova, Kristen Benedict, Michael Brauer, Rima Habre, Gayle S W Hagler, John A Haynes, Sean Khan, Vasu Kilaru, Yang Liu, Steven Pawson, David B Peden, Jennifer K Quint, Mary B Rice, Erika N Sasser, Edmund Seto, Susan L Stone, George D Thurston, John Volckens, Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Machine Learning-Based Integration of High-Resolution Wildfire Smoke Simulations and Observations for Regional Health Impact Assessment

Yufei Zou, Susan M. O’Neill, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Ernesto C. Alvarado, Robert Solomon, Clifford Mass , Yang Liu, M. Talat Odman, and Huizhong Shen, International Journal of Environmental Resources and Public Health

Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and incidence of diabetes in China: A cohort study

Fengchao Liang, Xueli Yang, Fangchao Liu, Jianxin Li, Qingyang Xiao, Jichun Chen, Xiaoqing Liu, Jie Cao, Chong Shen, Ling Yu, Fanghong Lu, Xianping Wu, Liancheng Zhao, Xigui Wu, Ying Li, Dongsheng Hu, Jianfeng Huang, Yang Liu, Xiangfeng Lu, Dongfeng Gu, Environment International

Developing an Advanced PM2. 5 Exposure Model in Lima, Peru

Bryan N. Vu, Odón Sánchez, Jianzhao Bi, Qingyang Xiao, Nadia N. Hansel, William Checkley, Gustavo F. Gonzales, Kyle Steenland, Yang Liu, Remote Sensing

Impacts of snow and cloud covers on satellite-derived PM2. 5 levels

Jianzhao Bi, Jessica H. Belle, Yujie Wang, Alexei I. Lyapustin, Avani Wildani, Yang Liu, Remote Sensing of Environment

2018

The sensitivity of satellite-based PM2. 5 estimates to its inputs: Implications to model development in data-poor regions

Guannan Geng, Nancy L. Murray, Howard H. Chang, Yang Liu, Environment International

Space-time trends of PM2. 5 constituents in the conterminous United States estimated by a machine learning approach, 2005–2015

Xia Meng, Jenny L. Hand, Bret A. Schichtel, Yang Liu, Environment International

Predicting monthly high-resolution PM2. 5 concentrations with random forest model in the North China Plain

Keyong Huang, Qingyang Xiao, Xia Meng, Guannan Geng, Yujie Wang, Alexei Lyapustin, Dongfeng Gu, Yang Liu, Environmental Pollution

Satellite-based short-and long-term exposure to PM2. 5 and adult mortality in urban Beijing, China

Fengchao Liang, Qingyang Xiao, Dongfeng Gu, Meimei Xu, Lin Tian, Qun Guo, Ziting Wu, Xiaochuan Pan, Yang Liu, Environmental Pollution

An Ensemble Machine-Learning Model To Predict Historical PM2.5 Concentrations in China from Satellite Data

Qingyang Xiao, Howard H. Chang, Guannan Geng, Yang Liu, Environmental Science and Technology

All-cause mortality risk associated with long-term exposure to ambient PM2· 5 in China: a cohort study

Prof Tiantian Li, PhD; Yi Zhang, MPH; Jiaonan Wang, BSMed; Dandan Xu, BSMed; Zhaoxue Yin, MM; Huashuai Chen, PhD; Yuebin Lv, MM; Jiesi Luo, MM; Prof Yi Zeng, PhD; Yang Liu, PhD; Prof Patrick L Kinney, ScD; Prof Xiaoming Shi, PhD; The Lancet: Public Health

Age-Specific Associations of Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter with Respiratory Emergency Department Visits in the United States

Heather M. Strosnider, Howard H. Chang, Lyndsey A. Darrow, Yang Liu, Ambarish Vaidyanathan, and Matthew J. Strickland, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Associations between birth outcomes and maternal PM2.5 exposure in Shanghai: A comparison of three exposure assessment approaches

Qingyang Xiao, Hanyi Chen, Matthew J. Strickland, Haidong Kan, Howard H. Chang, Mitchel Klein, Chen Yang, Xia Meng, Yang Liu, Environment International

Advances in multiangle satellite remote sensing of speciated airborne particulate matter and association with adverse health effects: from MISR to MAIA

David J. Diner, Stacey W. Boland, Michael Brauer, Carol Bruegge, Kevin A. Burke, Russell Chipman, Larry Di Girolamo, Michael J. Garay, Sina Hasheminassab, Edward Hyer, Michael Jerrett, Veljko Jovanovic, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Yang Liu, Alexei I. Lyapustin, Randall V. Martin, Abigail Nastan, Bart D. Ostro, Beate Ritz, Joel Schwartz, Jun Wang, Feng Xu, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Mapping Speciated Ambient Particulate Matter Concentrations with the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA)

David J. Diner, Kevin A. Burke, John Pearson, Feng Xu, Michael J. Garay, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Abigail Nastan, Yang Liu, Randall V. Martin, Jun Wang, Bart Ostro, Sina Hasheminassab, IEEE Xplore

Satellite‐Based Daily PM2.5 Estimates During Fire Seasons in Colorado

Guannan Geng, Nancy L. Murray, Daniel Tong, Joshua S. Fu, Xuefei Hu, Pius Lee, Xia Meng, Howard H. Chang, Yang Liu, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Data integration for the assessment of population exposure to ambient air pollution for global burden of disease assessment

Gavin Shaddick, Matthew L. Thomas, Heresh Amini, David Broday, Aaron Cohen, Joseph Frostad, Amelia Green, Sophie Gumy, Yang Liu, Randall V. Martin, Annette Pruss-Ustun, Daniel Simpson, Aaron van Donkelaar, Michael Brauer, Environmental Science and Technology

Estimating PM2. 5 speciation concentrations using prototype 4.4 km-resolution MISR aerosol properties over Southern California

Xia Meng, Michael J. Garay, David J. Diner, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Jin Xu, Yang Liu, Atmospheric Environment

MAIAC-based long-term spatiotemporal trends of PM2. 5 in Beijing, China

Fengchao Liang, Qingyang Xiao, Yujie Wang, Alexei Lyapustin, Guoxing Li, Dongfeng Gu, Xiaochuan Pan, Yang Liu, Science of The Total Environment

Early-life exposure to PM 2.5 and risk of acute asthma clinical encounters among children in Massachusetts: a case-crossover analysis

Roxana Khalili, Scott M. Bartell, Xuefei Hu, Yang Liu, Howard H. Chang, Candice Belanoff, Matthew J. Strickland, Verónica M. Vieira, Environmental Health

2017

Exposure to acute air pollution and risk of bronchiolitis and otitis media for preterm and term infants

Mariam S. Girguis, Matthew J. Strickland, Xuefei Hu, Yang Liu, Howard H. Chang, Itai Kloog, Candice Belanoff, Scott M. Bartell, Verónica M. Vieira, Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology

Addressing the source contribution of PM2. 5 on mortality: an evaluation study of its impacts on excess mortality in China

Lin Tian, Qiang Zeng, Wentan Dong, Qun Guo, Ziting Wu, Xiaochuan Pan, Guoxing Li, Yang Liu, Environmental Research Letters

Evaluation of a data fusion approach to estimate daily PM2. 5 levels in North China

Fengchao Liang, Meng Gao, Qingyang Xiao, Gregory R. Carmichael, Xiaochuan Pan, Yang Liu, Environmental Research

Air pollutant exposure field modeling using air quality model-data fusion methods and comparison with satellite AOD-derived fields: application over North Carolina, USA

Ran Huang, Xinxin Zhai, Cesunica E. Ivey, Mariel D. Friberg, Xuefei Hu, Yang Liu, Qian Di, Joel Schwartz, James A. Mulholland, Armistead G. Russell, Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health

Full-coverage high-resolution daily PM2. 5 estimation using MAIAC AOD in the Yangtze River Delta of China

Qingyang Xiao, Yujie Wang, Howard H. Chang, Xia Meng, Guannan Geng, Alexei Lyapustin, Yang Liu, Remote Sensing of Environment

Chronic PM2. 5 exposure and risk of infant bronchiolitis and otitis media clinical encounters

Mariam S. Girguis, Matthew J. Strickland, Xuefei Hu, Yang Liu, Howard H. Chang, Candice Belanoff, Scott M. Bartell, Verónica M. Vieira, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

The nexus between urbanization and PM2. 5 related mortality in China

Miaomiao Liu, Yining Huang, Zhou Jin, Zongwei Ma, Xingyu Liu, Bing Zhang, Yang Liu, Yang Yu, Jinnan Wang, Jun Bi, Patrick L. Kinney, Environmental Pollution

Improving satellite-based PM 2.5 estimates in China using Gaussian processes modeling in a Bayesian hierarchical setting

Wenxi Yu, Yang Liu, Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi, Scientific Reports

Associations of PM2.5 and Black Carbon with Hospital Emergency Room Visits during Heavy Haze Events: A Case Study in Beijing, China

Fengchao Liang, Lin Tian, Qun Guo, Dane Westerdahl, Yang Liu, Xiaobin Jin,Guoxing Li, Xiaochuan Pan, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Data integration model for air quality: a hierarchical approach to the global estimation of exposures to ambient air pollution

Gavin Shaddick, Matthew L. Thomas, Amelia Green, Michael Brauer, Aaron van Donkelaar, Rick Burnett, Howard H. Chang, Aaron Cohen, Rita Van Dingenen, Carlos Dora, Sophie Gumy, Yang Liu, Randall Martin, Lance A. Waller, Jason West, James V. Zidek, Annette Prüss‐Ustün, Applied Statistics

Estimating PM_2.5 Concentrations in the Conterminous United States Using the Random Forest Approach

Xuefei Hu, Jessica H. Belle, Xia Meng, Avani Wildani, Lance A. Waller, Matthew J. Strickland, Yang Liu, Environmental Science and Technology

Global Land Use Regression Model for Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution

Andrew Larkin, Jeffrey A. Geddes, Randall V. Martin, Qingyang Xiao, Yang Liu, Julian D. Marshall, Michael Brauer, Perry Hystad, Environmental Science and Technology

The Potential Impact of Satellite-Retrieved Cloud Parameters on Ground-Level PM_2.5 Mass and Composition

Jessica H. Belle, Howard H. Chang, Yujie Wang, Xuefei Hu, Alexei Lyapustin, Yang Liu, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Associations between ambient fine particulate air pollution and hypertension: A nationwide cross-sectional study in China

Cong Liu, Renjie Chen, Yaohui Zhao, Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi, Yang Liu, Xia Meng, Yafeng Wang, Xinxin Chen, Weihua Li, Haidong Kan, Science of the Total Environment

Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015

Dr Aaron J Cohen, DSc; Prof Michael Brauer, ScD; Richard Burnett, PhD; Prof H Ross Anderson, MD; Joseph Frostad, MPH; Kara Estep, MPA; Prof Kalpana Balakrishnan, PhD; Prof Bert Brunekreef, PhD; Prof Lalit Dandona, MD; Rakhi Dandona, PhD; Prof Valery Feigin, PhD; Greg Freedman, MPH; Bryan Hubbell, PhD; Amelia Jobling, PhD; Prof Haidong Kan, MD; Luke Knibbs, PhD; Yang Liu, PhD; Prof Randall Martin, PhD; Lidia Morawska, PhD; Prof C Arden Pope III, PhD; Hwashin Shin, PhD; Kurt Straif, PhD; Prof Gavin Shaddick, PhD; Matthew Thomas, PhD; Rita van Dingenen, PhD; Aaron van Donkelaar, PhD; Prof Theo Vos, PhD; Prof Christopher J L Murray, DPhil; Mohammad H Forouzanfar, PhD; The Lancet

Maternal exposure to ozone and PM2.5 and the prevalence of orofacial clefts in four U.S. states

Ying Zhou, Suzanne M. Gilboa, Michele L. Herdt, Philip J. Lupo, W. Dana Flanders, Yang Liu, Mikyong Shin, Mark A. Canfield, Russell S. Kirby, Environmental Research

Spatial and temporal trends in the mortality burden of air pollution in China: 2004–2012

Miaomiao Liu, Yining Huang, Zongwei Ma, Zhou Jin, Xingyu Liu, Haikun Wang, Yang Liu, Jinnan Wang, Matti Jantunen, Jun Bi, Patrick L. Kinney, Environment International