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Professor Shandy Li works at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, where she joined in March 2017. She currently serves as the Deputy Head of the Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit and the Group Leader of Children's Environmental Health Research, leading an interdisciplinary research team focused on human health in the context of global environmental change. Her work spans planetary health, environmental epidemiology, and child health, with significant contributions to understanding the impacts of air pollution, climate change, and extreme weather events on human health.
Professor Li holds a PhD in Public Health (awarded in 2014) from The University of Queensland, a Master of Medical Sciences (awarded in 2010) from Peking University, and a Medical Degree (awarded in 2006) from Capital Medical University in China. Following her PhD, she completed a two-year postdoctoral training supported by a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence at The University of Sydney.
Her research interests focus on four primary areas: Planetary and Environmental Health (including Environmental Epidemiology, Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Exposure and Health Risk Assessment); Child Health (including Perinatal Health, Birth Outcomes, and Children's Respiratory Health); Public Health and Epidemiology (including Methodological Design and Global Health); and Biostatistics (including Quantitative Analysis and Spatiotemporal Modelling). Her recent publications analyze wildfire-related PM2.5 exposure, heat and humidity events, flood health impacts, and urban greenness effects, demonstrating her focus on climate-health interactions with global implications across multiple countries and territories.
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Research - Team Award (2024)
- FMNHS Early Career Researcher Fellows Publication Prize for Non-Laboratory Based Research (2021)
- SPHPM Early Career Excellence Award (2019)
As a NHMRC Emerging Leadership (Level 2) Fellow, Professor Li has successfully secured competitive grants and currently leads multiple active projects including Real-Time Prediction of CVD Healthcare Utilization Driven by Environmental Stressors and Developing a Global Air Quality Alert System. She serves as Academic Editor of PLoS Climate and Associate Editor of BMC Public Health, and regularly reviews for prestigious journals and funding bodies.
Professor Li leads the Children's Environmental Health Research group, maintaining extensive international collaborations that produce high-impact evidence informing healthcare policy. Her work has been adopted by governmental authorities to develop guidelines for preventing environmental health impacts, and she is currently accepting PhD students whose research aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals in planetary health and environmental sustainability.
