Tao Xue

Dr. Tao Xue is an Associate Professor at Peking University's School of Public Health and a leader in environmental health research. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Environment and Health at the Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau. His work, which combines causal inference / machine learning methods and health impact assessment, is dedicated to understanding and mitigating the health risks of air pollution, especially during the critical early stages of life. He is the visionary behind the first risk model to connect PM2.5 exposure to stillbirth. Dr. Xue's research has uncovered that pollutants from specific sources, like wildfires and sandstorms, pose a greater threat to early-life health. His findings have been published in over 160 SCI papers, including prestigious journals such as National Science Review, The Innovation, Lancet Planetary Health, Science Advances, Nature Communications, and One-Earth. Dr. Xue's work is supported by major national grants, including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.