Tao Xue

Title: Assistant professor (Tenure Track)

Major: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

E-mail: txue@hsc.pku.edu.cn

Address: 38 Xueyuan Rd , Haidian District,Beijing,China

Personal profile

06/2019-present Peking University, School of Public Health, Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, Assistant professor

07/2017-05/2019 Peking University, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Post-doc

07/2015-07/2017 Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science，Post-doc

09/2011-04/2015 University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health, Ph.D

09/2007-07/2011 Peking University, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Bachelor

Brief introduction of Teaching and Research

Utilizing epidemiological, big data, and spatiotemporal statistical methods to analyze various environmental risk factors affecting human reproductive health; as the first/corresponding author, published 29 papers in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, The Lancet Planetary Health, PLoS Medicine, eLife, with a total of over 60 SCI papers published; serving as a peer reviewer for various interdisciplinary journals such as Nature Sustainability, Science Bulletin, Environmental Health Perspective, Environmental Science & Technology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Main research directions

Impact of air pollution exposure on reproductive health; Inference of the health effects of environmental policies; Health risk assessment of adverse environmental exposures based on multi-source data.

Representative scientific research projects

1. NSFC 42375179 | 510K, 01/2024-12/2027, New epidemiological method to identify the threshold of health effects of air pollution, Subproject Leader/Core member, Ongoing

2. NSFC 42175182 | 550K, 01/2022-12/2025, Risk assessment of joint exposure to PM2.5, O3 and temperature based on a data-fusion machine learning model in China, Subproject Leader/Core member, Ongoing

3. NSFC 41701591 | 80K, 01/2018-12/2018, Identifying subpopulations susceptible to air pollution based on risk assessments in China, Subproject Leader/Core member

10 representative papers (*Corresponding author)

(1) Li J#, Guan T#, Guo Q#, Geng G, Wang H, Guo F, Li J, Xue T*. Exposure to landscape fire smoke reduced birthweight in low-and middle-income countries: findings from a siblings-matched case-control study. eLife. 2021 Sep 29;10:e69298.

(2) Xue T*,#, Geng G#, Han Y, Wang H, Li J, Li H, Zhou Y, Zhu T*. Open fire exposure increases the risk of pregnancy loss in South Asia. Nature Communications 2021; 20: 37676. 10.1038/s41467-021-23529-7.

(3) Xue T#,*, Geng G#, Li J#, et al, Zhu T*. Associations Between Exposure to Landscape Fire Smoke and Child Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: a matched case-control study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(9), e588-e598.

(4) Xue, T., Guan, T., Geng, G., Zhang, Q., Zhao, Y. and Zhu, T.*, 2021. Estimation of pregnancy losses attributable to exposure to ambient fine particles in south Asia: an epidemiological case-control study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(1), pp.e15-e24.

(5) Xue, T., Zhu, T.*, Geng, G. and Zhang, Q., 2019. Association between pregnancy loss and ambient PM2· 5 using survey data in Africa: a longitudinal case-control study, 1998–2016. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(5), pp.e219-ee225.

(6) Xue T*, Guan T, Zheng Y, Geng G, Zhang Q, Yao Y and Zhu T*. Long-term PM2.5 exposure and depressive symptoms in China: a quasi-experimental study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 2021, 6: 100079.

(7) Xue T*, Zhu T*, Peng W, Guan T, Zhang S, Zheng Y, Geng G, Zhang Q. Clean air actions in China, PM2.5 exposure and household medical expenditures: A quasi-experimental study. PLoS Medicine 2021, 18(1), p.e1003480.

(8) Xue T, Zhu T*, Zheng Y, Zhang Q. Declines in mental health associated with air pollution and temperature variability in China. Nature Communications 2019; 10, 2165.

(9) Xue T, Zheng Y, Tong D, Zheng B, Li X, Zhu T, Zhang Q*. Spatiotemporal continuous estimates of PM2.5 concentrations in China, 2000-2016: a machine learning method with inputs from satellites, chemical transport model, and ground observations. Environment International 2019; 123: 345–357.

(10) Xue T, Liu J, Zhang Q*, Geng G, Zheng Y, Dan T, Liu Z, Guan D, Bo Y, Zhu T, He K, Hao J, Rapid improvement of PM2.5 pollution and associated health benefits in China during 2013–2017. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences 2019. 62(12), 1847-1856.

Main research progress

The term has revealed the detrimental effects of early-life PM2.5 exposure on adverse health outcomes such as stillbirth, low birth weight, and childhood lower respiratory tract infections

Future work

Estimation of the disease burden of early-life PM2.5 exposure on adverse health outcomes such as stillbirth, low birth weight, and childhood lower respiratory tract infections.