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Howard Chang is a Professor at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, affiliated with the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health. His research focuses on statistical methods for analyzing environmental health data, particularly air pollution, climate change impacts, and health outcomes like preterm birth and respiratory disease. He leads the ENVISON Research Group and the CARRS Data Core, and is part of the HERCULES Exposome Center and CHART initiative.
Education: PhD from Johns Hopkins University (Biostatistics) and BSc from University of British Columbia (Mathematics).
Key Projects: Investigating heat waves and pregnancy outcomes, transportation vulnerability and diabetes-related limb loss, influenza burden estimation, and climate-health intersections. His work spans large databases like birth certificates and electronic health records, and exposure assessment for air quality and extreme weather.
Publications highlight climate-related health risks, household air pollution interventions, and methodological advances in spatial epidemiology. He collaborates globally on public health crises like wildfires and infectious diseases.
