Junfeng Zhang
Overview:
Dr. Zhang joined the Duke Faculty in fall 2013 from the University of Southern California where he had been a professor of environmental and global health and the director of Environmental and Biomarkers Analysis Laboratory since 2010. His prior positions include professor, department chair, and associate dean at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Dr. Zhang has more than 140 peer-reviewed publications. His work has been featured in major international media such as the Time, the New York Times, BBC, ABC, CBS, Yahoo News, etc. His early work on characterizing sources of non-methane greenhouse gases made him one of the officially recognized contributor to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to IPCC. He is the 2012 recipient of the Jeremy Wesolowski Award, the highest award of the International Society of Exposure Science. He also received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Rutgers Graduate School.
Dr. Zhang’s research interests include developing novel biomarkers of human exposure and health effects, assessing health and climate co-benefits of air pollution interventions, and examining biological mechanisms by which environmental exposures exert adverse health effects. Dr. Zhang has led a number of international collaborations to study air pollution health effects and underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms. He is currently leading two multidisciplinary, multi-institutional centers studying the health impact of engineered nanomaterials.
Positions:
Professor of Global and Environmental Health
Research Professor of Global Health
Professor of Global and Environmental Health at Duke Kunshan University
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Education:
Ph.D. 1994
Grants:
Cooperative Program in Nanomaterials Hazard and Exposure Assessment Traineeships (NanoHEAT)
Effects of perfluorobutane sulfonate (PFBS) exposure on adverse pregnancy outcomes and fetal development
The effect of household air pollution on the health outcomes of infants in Botswana
Measurement of urinary 8-isoprostane and 11-dehydrothromboxane
Air Pollution Particle Effects on Human Lung Antimycobacterial Immunity
Publications:
Population ageing and deaths attributable to ambient PM<sub>2·5</sub> pollution: a global analysis of economic cost.
Malondialdehyde in dried blood spots: a biomarker of systemic lipid peroxidation linked to cardiopulmonary symptoms and risk factors.
DNA Methylation in Babies Born to Nonsmoking Mothers Exposed to Secondhand Smoke during Pregnancy: An Epigenome-Wide Association Study.
Associations between time-weighted personal air pollution exposure and amino acid metabolism in healthy adults.
Tightening standards for indoor levels of PM2.5: A promising approach for reducing PM2.5 associated mortalities in Urban China
