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 in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, jointly appointed with the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Since 2014, she has been funded by NASA, NIH, and NSF for atmospheric science and environmental health research using satellite remote sensing and AI techniques. She leads the Health-Atmosphere Nexus Group (utsph-hang.org) to investigate health risks linked to air pollution, extreme weather, and natural disasters from under-supported communities to global scales.
Center Affiliation
Center for Spatial Temporal Modeling for Applications in Population Sciences
Research Interests
- Big Data/Data Science
- Border Health
- Community Health Practice
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- GIS/Spatio-temporal Data Analysis
- Health Equity
- Social Determinants of Health