Yali Zhang
Education Background
Aug 2008-Present Assistant Professor in Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, Peking University
Sep 2005-Jul 2008 Ph.D. in Epidemiology, Public Health School, Peking University
Overall introduction
My main interest is to adopt epidemiology research method such as case-control study, cohort study, to investigate the relationship between adverse exposure during pregnancy and birth outcome of offspring and its mechanism. I have participated in three key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, five projects from National Natural Science Funding in China (NSFC) and two Sino-US international cooperation projects. As the first or corresponding author, I have published a total of 16 papers in authoritative journals, e.g., Environment International, Environmental Pollution, National Medical Journal of China and China CDC Weekly. I undertake part of the teaching work for undergraduate and graduate courses such as "Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology", "Field epidemiology" and "Birth defects and their Prevention". I work in the Office for National Maternal and Child Health Statistics of China, Peking University. I serve as editor of Chinese Journal of Reproductive Health and member of Environmental and Social Eugenics Branch, China Eugenics Science Association. I won the Second Prize of Science and Technology of Beijing Preventive Medicine Association.
Main research directions
Epidemiology on birth defects
Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology
Representative scientific research projects
| (1) | The University Hospital Advanced Age Pregnant (UNIHOPE) Cohort. The National Key R&D Program on Reproductive Health & Major Birth Defects Control and Prevention Project (2016YFC1000406-2, 2016/7-2020/12), Backbone Member, Completed. |
| (2) | School of Public Health Youth Talents Support Program: Study on the the risk of neural tube defects, 2016.1.1 -2018.12.31, Principal investigator, Completed. |
| (3) | Cooperative project of Kunming University of Science and Technology: Research on risk sources of heavy metal exposure in fuel in Haojia River Basin, 2020.8-2020.12, Principal investigator, Completed. |
| (4) | Sino-US international cooperative project: Feasibility study of Congenital heart disease surveillance in fetuses and early neonates (U11/CCU01558), 2004/04-2008/04. Backbone Member, Completed. |
10 representative papers
| (1) | Chen H, Zhang Y#, Liu J, Zhang L, Jin L, Li Z*.Indoor air pollution from coal combustion and tobacco smoke during the periconceptional period and risk for neural tube defects in offspring in five rural counties of Shanxi Province, China, 2010–2016. Environment International. 2023. |
| (2) | Hao Y, Yan L#, Pang Y, Yan H, Zhang L, Liu L, Li N, Wang B, Zhang Y*, Li Z, Ye R, Ren A. Maternal serum level of manganese, single nucleotide polymorphisms, and risk of spontaneous preterm birth: A nested case-control study in China，Environmental Pollution，2020 |
| (3) | Yan H#, Zhang Y#, Zhang L, Liu J, Jin L, Pang Y, Yan L, Qin Y, Wang B, Ye R*, Li Z*, Ren A. Associations of AHR, CYP1A1, EPHX1, and GSTP1 genetic polymorphisms with small-for-gestational-age infants. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2019 Oct 1:1-9. |
| (4) | Zhang Y, Liu J, Zhang L, Jin L, Ren A，Li Z*. Passive Smoking During the Periconceptional Period and Risk for Neural Tube Defects in Offspring—Five Counties, Shanxi Province, China, 2010-2016. China CDC weekly, 2021,3(37):778-782. |
| (5) | Yali Zhang, Zhiwen Li*, Le Zhang, Jufen Liu, Lei Jin, Aiguo Ren*, Association between severe nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy and the risk of neural tube defects in Northern China, Birth Defects Research, 2018,110(5):406-412. |
| (6) | Yali Zhang, Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso, Adolfo Correa, Song Li, Xinheng Feng, Jacqueline Gindler, Hui Lin, Catherine Webb, Wei Li, Jean Trines, Robert J. Berry, Lorraine Yeung, Ying Luo, Meifang Jiang, Hua Chen, Xiamei Sun, Zhu Li*, Observed prevalence of congenital heart defects from a surveillance study in China, J Ultrasound Med, 2011, 30(7): 989-995. |
| (7) | Shi, Q. Y., Zhang, J. B., Mi, Y. Q., Song, Y., Ma, J., Zhang, Y. L*. (2014). Congenital heart defects and maternal fever: systematic review and meta-analysis. J Perinatol, 34(9), 677-682. doi:10.1038/jp.2014.76 |
| (8) | Zhang Yali，Luo Baorong，Li Hongtian，Zhou Yubo，Zhu LiPing，Liu Jianmeng*. A survey of women undergoing nonmedical induced abortions during 2010—2011 in Beijing. Natl Med J China. 2014，94(29):2304-2307. |
| (9) | ZHANG Le，SUN Mei—ping，GAO Wei—xian，HONG Shi．xin，ZHANG Ya．1i*，Prenatal screening for major fetal heart defects by training sonographers in township hospitals and county health centers：a feasibility study，JOURNAL OF PEKING UNIVERSITY(HEALTH SCIENCES, 2014, 46(03):373-378 |
| (10) | ZHANG Yali, GAO Weixian, HONG Shixin, ZHANG Le*.Risk factors of congenital heart diseases in south China, CJRH, 2013, 24(1): 37-39. |