Yun Hang
Assistant Professor
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
713/500-9000
Reuel Stallones Building
1200 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030
About
Dr. Hang is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health with a joint appointment in Biostatistics and Data Science. She earned her Ph.D. in Environment and Resources at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, complemented by an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a Graduate Certificate in Energy Analysis and Policy. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Environmental Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. At UTHealth, she directs the Health-Atmosphere Nexus Group (utsph-hang.org), combining satellite remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and community insights to examine how air pollution, extreme weather events, and related environmental stressors impact human health from local neighborhoods to global populations. Her work has been supported by NASA, NIH, NSF, CDC, NASEM, and CPRIT. Dr. Hang teaches Environmental Epidemiology, an interdisciplinary course engaging students from public health, medicine, and nursing. Her trainees have received prestigious national honors, including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and NASA’s Future Investigators Award. She also serves as a Council Member of the American Geophysical Union, advocating for early-career researchers and facilitating international scientific collaborations.
Center Affiliation
Center for Spatial Temporal Modeling for Applications in Population Sciences
Research Interests
- Behavioral/Mental Health
- Big Data/Data Science
- Border Health
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and Chronic Diseases
- Community Health Practice
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- GIS/Spatio-temporal Data Analysis