Junfeng Zhang
Professor of Global and Environmental Health
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 290 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. These studies integrate epidemiological and toxicological approaches into natural experiment designs. He has conducted several indoor air purification intervention studies to evaluate the effectiveness of personal exposure reduction in improving health outcomes in China. Currently, he is conducting intervention trials of residential air purification in older adults with a heart disease history and adults at risk for Type 2 diabetes living in Los Angels where air pollution levels are high. He is co-leading a project to study whether and how particulate matter pollution affects respiratory viral infections in two cities of Mongolia.
Positions
Professor of Global and Environmental Health in the Nicholas School of the Environment
2013 Nicholas School of the Environment
Chair of the Environmental Sciences and Policy Division in the Nicholas School of the Environment
2022 Nicholas School of the Environment
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute in the School of Medicine
2015 School of Medicine
Education
Ph.D. 1994
1994 Rutgers University
Publications, Grants & Awards
- Grants (24)
- Awards (1)
- Academics Articles (307)
- Conference Pages (17)
- Book Sections (5)
National Institutes of Health
University of Texas Medical Branch
National Institutes of Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
University of Southern California
National Institutes of Health
University of Rochester
Johns Hopkins University
University of British Columbia
University of California - San Francisco
National Institutes of Health
Virginia Commonwealth University
National Institutes of Health
Thrasher Research Fund
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
University of California - San Francisco
Environmental Protection Agency
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Johns Hopkins University
Environmental Protection Agency
National Institutes of Health
University of Southern California
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Environmental Research
Atmospheric Environment
The Science of the Total Environment
Environmental Health
Environmental Health
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Hazardous Materials
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Environment International
Nicotine Tob Res
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Nicotine Tob Res
The Science of the Total Environment
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Environmental Health
Environmental Research
The Science of the Total Environment
Environmental Research
The Science of the Total Environment
Bmc Public Health
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Environmental Research
Environmental Science & Technology Letters
The Lancet Healthy Longevity
Environment International
Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)
Environment International
Age and Ageing
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Environmental Science & Technology
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
The Science of the Total Environment
Environmental Science & Technology
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Nicotine Tob Res
The Science of the Total Environment
The Lancet. Planetary Health
Journal of Thoracic Disease
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Faseb Journal
Environ Health Perspect
The Science of the Total Environment
Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science & Technology
Obesity Reviews : an Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
Environment International
Environment International
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
J Am Coll Cardiol
The Science of the Total Environment
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Environment International
Journal of the American Heart Association
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Environment International
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Jama Pediatrics
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Environment International
Environment International
Aerosol and Air Quality Research
Environmental Research
The Science of the Total Environment
Nicotine Tob Res
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts
The Science of the Total Environment
Biomarkers
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Thorax
Free Radical Research
Atmospheric Environment
Atmospheric Environment
Mitochondrion
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Clinical and Experimental Allergy : Journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Environmental Science & Technology
Global Heart
Inhalation Toxicology
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
Psychology Research and Behavior Management
Frontiers in Immunology
Quality of Life Research
The Lancet. Planetary Health
Respiratory Research
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Journal of Chromatography. B, Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences
Clin Epigenetics
Journal of Thoracic Disease
The Science of the Total Environment
Environment International
Environment International
Brain Behav Immun
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts
Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science & Technology
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Frontiers in Pharmacology
The Science of the Total Environment
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Jama Internal Medicine
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Atmospheric Environment
Nanotoxicology
Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts
Colloids and Surfaces. B, Biointerfaces
Environmental Science & Technology
Environment International
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
Respiratory Research
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications
Natural Hazards
Environmental Science: Nano
Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Nanotoxicology
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Environment International
Environ Health Perspect
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
Environmental Science & Technology
Atmospheric Environment
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Journal of Thoracic Disease
Plos One
Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Particle and Fibre Toxicology
Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Toxics
Journal of Chromatography. B, Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences
Environmental Research
Environmental Science & Technology
Indoor Air 2014 - 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate
Journal of Toxicology
Environmental Science & Technology
Atmospheric Environment
Environmental Science & Technology
Environment International
Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science & Technology
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
The Science of the Total Environment
Annals of Hematology
Research Report (Health Effects Institute)
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
The Journal of Immunology
Inhalation Toxicology
12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 2011
Respirology (Carlton, Vic.)
Research Report (Health Effects Institute)
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives
The Science of the Total Environment
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Chemosphere
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
Environmental Health Perspectives
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Lancet (London, England)
Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science & Technology
Research Report (Health Effects Institute)
Journal of Environmental Monitoring : Jem
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Atmospheric Environment
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Drug Metabolism and Disposition: the Biological Fate of Chemicals
Atmospheric Environment
Psychosomatic Medicine
Environmental Health Perspectives
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
The New England Journal of Medicine
Environmental Science & Technology
The Science of the Total Environment
The Science of the Total Environment
Environmental Science & Technology
Atmospheric Environment
Atmospheric Environment
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: an International Journal
Environmental Science & Technology
Air and Waste Management Association - Symposium on Air Quality Measurement: Methods and Technology 2006
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Environmental Science & Technology
Atmospheric Environment
Environmental Health Perspectives
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Research Report (Health Effects Institute)
Journal of Environmental Monitoring : Jem
Atmospheric Environment
Environmental Science & Technology
Zhongguo Huanjing Kexue/China Environmental Science
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
Indoor Air
Environmental Health Perspectives
Energy for Sustainable Development
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
Environmental Science & Technology
Environment International
International Journal of Epidemiology
Environmental Science & Technology
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry : Rcm
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Science & Technology
Aiha Journal : a Journal for the Science of Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety
Environmental Science & Technology
Aiha Journal : a Journal for the Science of Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety
British Medical Bulletin
American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal
American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives
Thescientificworldjournal
Journal of Geophysical Research
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
Environmental Science & Technology
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
Atmospheric Environment
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
Annual Review of Energy and the Environment
Environmental Health Perspectives
Atmospheric Environment
Environmental Science & Technology
Archives of Environmental Health
Environmental Science & Technology
Archives of Environmental Health
Environmental Science & Technology
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)
Chemosphere Global Change Science
Chemosphere Global Change Science
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science & Technology
Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology
17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022
16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate: Creative and Smart Solutions for Better Built Environments, Indoor Air 2020
16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate: Creative and Smart Solutions for Better Built Environments, Indoor Air 2020
Lancet (London, England)
Aerosol and Air Quality Research
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2018
The Journal of Immunology
6.2 Occupational and Environmental Health
The Journal of Immunology
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Trends and Determinants of Healthy Aging in China
Handbook of Indoor Air Quality
Handbook of Indoor Air Quality
Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in Asia
Offices & Contact
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