The Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences was established in 2000 through the merger of the Department of Occupational Health (founded in 1954), the Department of Environmental Health (founded in 1950), and the Department of Sanitary Chemistry (founded in 1981). This department is dedicated to teaching, training, and conducting scientific research on the impacts of environmental factors, including occupational factors, on public health. It aims to cultivate Master’s and PhD students, provide research and professional development opportunities for postdoctoral researchers and various public health professionals, and engage in community service related to its specialties. The current chair of the department is Professor Guang Jia.
Faculty
The department currently has 18 faculty members, including 4 professors, 4 associate professors, 1 researcher, 3 assistant researchers, 1 lecturer, and 3 senior technicians, along with 1 technician and 1 postdoctoral fellow.
Guang Jia Professor, Chair
Major research field: Mechanisms and prevention of occupational hazards.
Lihua He Professor
Major research fields:
(1) Human factors and occupational ergonomics
(2) Epidemiology and prevention technologies for musculoskeletal disorders in occupational populations based on multidisciplinary integration
(3) Mechanisms of occupational musculoskeletal injuries
(4) Health Effects of Physical Hazards in the Workplace, Prevention and Control Techniques and Standards
Furong Deng Professor, Vice Chair
Major research field: Health effects of environmental factors and their underlying mechanisms.
Wei Huang Professor
Major research field: Environmental Epidemiology.
Shaodan Huang Researcher, Vice Chair
Major research field: Indoor environments and health.
Wenjun Ma Associate Professor
Major research fields: Reproductive health, health impacts of environmental heavy metals, industrial toxicology.
Rong Cui Associate Professor
Major research field: Physicochemical analysis of environmental, food, and biological samples.
Yun Wang Associate Professor
Major research fields: Health impacts of occupational and environmental hazards; nanotoxicology; occupational ergonomics.
Guoxing Li Associate Professor
Major research fields: Air pollution, climate change, biostatistics/deep learning models.
Jing Huang Assistant Researcher
Major research field: Research on healthy cities and environmental health.
Xu Gao Assistant Researcher
Major research field: Systematic epidemiological research on environmental factors and aging.
Zhangjian Chen Assistant Researcher
Major research fields: Occupational health and nanotoxicology.
Junhui Xu Lecturer
Major research field: Physicochemical studies of environmental pollutants and biological samples.
Technicians: Xiaobin Jin, Qian Zhao, Di Yang
Technician: Zhao Jinghui
Postdoctoral Fellow: Siyuan Niu (supervised by Assistant Researcher Xu Gao)
Teaching
Courses for Undergraduate Students:
Occupational Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Sanitary Chemistry, Environmental and Disease, Occupational Health Management, Forest Environment and Health, Indoor Environment and Health, Environmental Medicine, Application of R Software in Environmental Health, Epigenetics and Health, Toxicology in Daily Life, Nanotechnology and Health, Environmental Factors and Aging Health, etc.
Courses for Postgraduate Students:
Advanced Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, Biomarkers and Biomonitoring, Occupational Stress, Human Factors and Occupational Ergonomics, Advances in Occupational Safety and Injury Research, Progress in Environmental Health Sciences, Health Impact Assessment Methods for Environmental Pollution Incidents, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiological Methods, Medical Statistics—Application of R Package in Spatial Data Analysis, Epigenetics and Environmental Health, Indoor Air Quality and Health Research Methods, Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology, New Technologies in Environmental and Occupational Health, and Advances in Healthy Cities from an Environmental Health Perspective, etc.
The department currently has over 50 graduate students, including more than 30 doctoral candidates and around 20 master’s candidates. Graduate students have received numerous honors, such as Beijing Outstanding Graduates.
Scientific Research
Main Research Areas:
Identification, evaluation, prediction, control, and management of occupational and environmental health factors.
Ongoing Research Projects:
The research projects include those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, the Science and Technology Commission of the Military Commission, as well as those funded by the relevant ministries, organizations and international cooperation.
Research Achievements in the Last Five Years:
This includes the development of relevant standards, patents, and numerous publications.
Location:
5th floor (Sanitary Chemistry), 6th floor (Occupational Health), 7th floor (Environmental Health), Public Health Building of Peking University Health Science Center
Contact Numbers:
+86-10-8280-1532 (Sanitary Chemistry)
+86-10-8280-1523 (Occupational Health)
+86-10-8280-1522 (Environmental Health)
