Professor Lin-wei TIAN (田林瑋教授)
MB BS (Shanxi Med Univ); MSc (China CDC); PhD (UC Berkeley)                     

Assistant Professor


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Biography 

Prof. Linwei Tian is an environmental epidemiologist. He has a medical background and a PhD degree in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. He did field epidemiology and laboratory work on indoor air pollution and lung cancer. He did research on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nanoquartz carcinogens in coal smoke.


Teaching Commitment

PHPC2009      Environment and Work (Environmental and Occupational Health)
PHPC3016      Environment and Health (Environmental Health)
OENV5001      Environmental Health Sciences
OENV5006      Air Pollution and Health 


Research interests 
  • Air pollution and health
  • Health effects of combustion-derived nanoparticles
  • Time series analysis
  • Gene-environment interaction in epidemiology

Select Publications 
Lin, HL, Yang LQ, Wang T, Hossain SR, Ho SC, Liu QY, and Tian LW* (2011). Time series analysis of Japanese encephalitis and weather in Linyi City, China. International Journal of Public Health, DOI: 10.1007/s00038-011-0236-x.

Tian LW*, Hossain SR, Lin HL, Ho KF, Lee SC, and Yu ITS (2011). Increasing trend of primary NO2 exhaust emission fraction in Hong Kong. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, DOI: 10.1007/s10653-011-9375-5.

Bao ZH., Sun ZH, Xiao MD, Tian LW*, and Wang JF* (2010). Hydrothermal transformation from Au core-sulfide shell to Au nanoparticle-decorated sulfide hybrid nanostructures. Nanoscale 2(9), 1650–1652.

Lu L, Lin HL, Tian LW*, Yang WZ, Sun JM and Liu QY*. Time series analysis of dengue fever and weather in Guangzhou, China. BMC Public Health, 2009; 9:395

Lin HL, Lu L, Tian LW*, Zhou SS, Wu HX, Bi Y, Ho SC, and Liu QY*. Spatial and temporal distribution of falciparum malaria in China. Malaria Journal, 2009; 8:130

Tian LW*, Lan Q, Yang D, He XZ, Yu ITS, and Hammond SK. Effect of chimneys on indoor air concentrations of PM10 and benzo[a]pyrene in Xuan Wei, China. Atmospheric Environment, 2009; 43: 3352-3355
 
Tian LW*, Koshland CP, Yano J, Yachandra VK, Yu ITS, Lee SC, and Lucas D. Carbon-centered free radicals in particulate matter emissions from wood and coal combustion. Energy & Fuels, 2009; 23: 2523-2526

Tian LW*, Dai SF, Wang JF, Huang YC, Ho SC, Zhou YP, Lucas D and Koshland CP. Nanoquartz in Late Permian C1 coal and the high incidence of female lung cancer in the Pearl River Origin area: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Public Health, 2008, 8:398.

Tian LW*
, Bi Y, Ho SC, Liu WJ, Liang S, Goggins WB, Chan EYY, Zhou SS, and Sung JJY. One-year delayed effect of fog on malaria transmission: a time-series analysis in the rain forest area of Mengla County, south-west China. Malaria Journal, 2008, 7:110.

Tian LW
, Lucas D*, Hammond SK, Fischer SL, Lee SC, and Koshland CP. Particle and gas emissions from a simulated household fire pit. Environmental Science & Technology, 2008. 42(7): 2503-2508.

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