Yang Liu
Gangarosa Distinguished Professor and Chair
Professor
Chair, Environmental Health

Dr. Yang Liu is the Chair and Gangarosa Distinguished Professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environment Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. His research interests include satellite aerosol retrieval and product design, applications of satellite remote sensing in public health research, climate change and health, machine learning and spatial statistics. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Liu has led many federally funded projects to apply satellite data in air pollution exposure and health effects modeling and study the health impacts of climate change related to extreme weather, wildfires, pollen, and ambient air pollution. He was an ORISE faculty fellow at the National Center for Environmental Health at the US CDC, a science team member of the NASA EVI-3 MAIA and Terra MISR missions, a PI member of the NASA HAQAST Team, and director of the NIH-funded Climate & Health Actionable Research and Translation Center (CHART).
For a complete list of Dr. Liu's publications, visit his ResearchGate page or Google Scholar page. His research group website on Emory ScholarBlogs can be found here.
Contact Information
Rollins School of Public Health , 1518 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta , GA 30322
Phone: (404) 727-2131
Fax: (404) 727-8744
Email: yang.liu@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Air Pollution
- Climate and Health
- Data Science
- Remote Sensing
- Risk Assessment
- Spatial Analysis/GIS
- Statistical Modeling
Education
- Ph.D. 2004, Harvard University
- M.S. 1999, University of California
- B.S. 1997, Tsinghua University
Courses Taught
- EH 586: Adv Sem Clm Chg&Hlth:Rsrch&Pol
- EH 587: Intro.toSatellite Remote Sens.
Affiliations & Activities
October 9, 2024. NASA JPL coverage of our study on the air quality impact of warehouses.
July 10, 2024, Emory reported the launch of a Georgia climate data dashboard, which is part of the Emory Climate Research Initiative.
April 30, 2024. CBS News coverage on our evaluation of automated pollen sensors in Atlanta.
Oct 24, 2023, Emory reported the establishment of a NIH funded Climate & Health Actionable Research and Translation Center.