
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
- Using Earth Observations to Support Regional and National Environmental Health Surveillance
- Using Earth Observations to Support Regional and National Environmental Health Surveillance
- Overcoming Barriers in Applying Satellite-Derived PM2.5 to Health
- Integrating Satellite and Ground Data for PM2.5 Exposure and Health Impact Assessment
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
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
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
Lei Yuan, Yan Zhang, Weidong Wang, Renjie Chen, Yang Liu, Cong Liu, Haidong Kan, Yu Gao, Ying Tian, Chemosphere
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
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
Yongbee Park, Byungjoon Kwon, Juyeon Heo, Xuefei Hu, Yang Liu, Taesup Moon, Environmental Pollution
2019
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
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
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
Nancy L. Murray, Heather A. Holmes, Yang Liu, Howard H. Chang, Environmental Research
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
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
Guannan Geng, Qingyang Xiao, Yixuan Zheng, Dan Tong, Yuxuan Zhang, Xiaoye Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Kebin He, Yang Liu, Science China Earth Sciences
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
Zongwei Ma, Riyang Liu, Yang Liu, and Jun Bi, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Ying Zhou, Xia Meng, Jessica Hartmann Belle, Huanxin Zhang, Caitlin Kennedy, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Jun Wang, Yang Liu, Envionrmental Pollution
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
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
Guannan Geng, Nancy L. Murray, Howard H. Chang, Yang Liu, Environment International
Xia Meng, Jenny L. Hand, Bret A. Schichtel, Yang Liu, Environment International
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
Qingyang Xiao, Howard H. Chang, Guannan Geng, Yang Liu, Environmental Science and Technology
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
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
Qingyang Xiao, Hanyi Chen, Matthew J. Strickland, Haidong Kan, Howard H. Chang, Mitchel Klein, Chen Yang, Xia Meng, Yang Liu, Environment International
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
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
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
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
Roxana Khalili, Scott M. Bartell, Xuefei Hu, Yang Liu, Howard H. Chang, Candice Belanoff, Matthew J. Strickland, Verónica M. Vieira, Environmental Health
2017
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
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
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
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
Wenxi Yu, Yang Liu, Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi, Scientific Reports
Fengchao Liang, Lin Tian, Qun Guo, Dane Westerdahl, Yang Liu, Xiaobin Jin,Guoxing Li, Xiaochuan Pan, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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
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
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
2016
Shenshen Li, Liangfu Chen, Meng Fan, Jinhua Tao, Zhongting Wang, Chao Yu, Yidan Si, Husi Letu, Yang Liu, Aerosol and Air Quality Research
Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols: A Satellite Investigation to Benefit Public Health
Yang Liu, David J. Diner, Public Health Reports
J. H. Belle, Yang Liu, Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Pollution
Shenshen Li, Chao Yu, Liangfu Chen, Jinhua Tao, Husi Letu, Wei Ge, Yidan Si, Yang Liu, Atmospheric Environment
Marie C. Russell,Jessica H. Belle, Yang Liu, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association