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My research focuses on assessing pesticide exposure and its effects on ecological and human health. I am particularly interested in utilizing innovative research platforms to characterize pesticide exposures using biomarker approach, and then seek for mechanistic interpretations for the adverse health effects. One of my current research projects involves in the exploration of the association between the losses of honeybees and the hazards of neonicotinoids, a group of the most commonly used insecticides worldwide.

Before joining Southwest University in Chongqing China as a distinguished Professor, I was an Associate Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston MA USA from 2008 to 2017, and an Assistant Professor at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in Atlanta GA USA from 2004 to 2008. I received my PhD degree from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle WA, in 1996. I have served as an Associate Editor for Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) between 2006 and 2016, and on several committees at the federal and state levels, including the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to US Environmental Protection Agency under the authority of the Federal Insecticides, Fungicides, and Rodenticides Act (FIFRA) since 2004 and the National Academy of Science (NAS) since 2013. I am currently an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, and an Adjunct Professor at Tufts University.