吉楠

Education
PhD	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
MHS	The John Hopkins University, USA
BM	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China

Position
2025 – Present	Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau
2023 – 2025	Post-doctoral Fellow, The John Hopkins University
2021 – 2023	Researcher, University of Southern California

Research Interests
Investigate the effects of environmental pollutants (air pollutants, climate-related factors) and social conditions on human health. Apply innovative methods to identify modifiable risk factors in the environment-health causal pathway. Evaluate the cumulative health impacts of exposure to complex mixtures of environmental pollutants.

Representative Publications

Martenies S, Oloo A, Magzamen S, Ji N, Khalili R, Kaur S, Xu Y, Yang T, Bastain TM, Breton CV, Farzan SF, Habre R, Dabelea D. Independent and joint effects of neighborhood-level environmental and socioeconomic exposures on body mass index in early childhood: The environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) cohort. Environmental Research 2024 Ji N, Eckel SP, Foley H, Yang T, Lurmann F, Grubbs BH, Habre R, Bastain TM, Farzan SF, Breton CV. Prenatal air pollution exposure is associated with inflammatory, cardiovascular, and metabolic biomarkers in mothers and newborns. Environmental Research 2024;252(Pt 1):118797. Ji N, Baptista A, Yu CH, Cepeda C, Green F, Greenberg M, Mincey I, Ohman-Strickland P, Fiedler N, Kipen H, Laumbach R. Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Chronic Stress, and Changes in Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Lung Function among a Panel of Children with Asthma living in an underresourced community. Science of the Total Environment 2024; 912:168984. Ji N, Johnson M, Eckel SP, Gauderman WJ, Chavez TA, Berhane K, Faham D, Lurmann F, Pavlovic NR, Grubbs BH, Lerner D, Habre R, Farzan SF, Bastain TM, Breton CV. Prenatal ambient air pollution exposure and child weight trajectories from the 3rd trimester of pregnancy to 2 years of age: a cohort study. BMC Medicine 2023;21(1):341. Ji N, Rule AM, Weatherholtz R, Crosby L, Bunnell JE, Orem B, R Reid, M Santosham, LL Hammitt, KL O’Brien Evaluation of indoor PM5 concentrations in a Native American Community: a pilot study. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 2021. Ji N, Fang M, Baptista A, Cepeda C, Greenberg M, Mincey I, Ohman-Strickland P, Fiedler N, Kipen H, Laumbach R. Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Changes in Exhaled Nitric Oxide and DNA Methylation in Arginase and Nitric Oxide Synthase in Children with Asthma. Environmental Health, 2021. 20(1): p. 12. Qin B, Xu B, Ji N, Yao S, Pawlish K, Llanos AAM, Lin Y, Demissie K, Ambrosone C., Hong CC, Bandera EV. Intake of vitamin D and calcium, sun exposure, and risk of breast cancer subtypes among black women. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2020. 111(2): p. 396-405.

Research Grants
04/2023	Pilot project for the Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities

Awards
11/2023	Postdoctoral research fellowship from The Johns Hopkins University
08/2022	SHARP Training Scholarship
06/2021	Postdoctoral research fellowship from University of Southern California
09/2019	International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Travel Award
03/2018	American Thoracic Society (ATS) Abstract Scholarship
05/2012	Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Hubei Province
06/2011	National Innovation Research subject
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011	Merit-based Scholarship of HZUST
2008, 2009	National Inspirational Scholarship

Professional Activities

Reviewer for Health Effect Institute (HEI) Summer Fellowship Program Member of International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) Reviewer for Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, Environmental Research, Environmental Pollution, Atmospheric Pollution Research, Environmental Science & Technology, Science of the Total Environment, and BMC Public Health