Tao Xue

Assistant professor
txue@hsc.pku.edu.cn
Xueyuan Road 38, Haidian District, Beijing, Chin
Peking University

Personal profile

Dr. Xue holds a bachelor degree of Environmental Science from Peking University (2011 June); and a Ph.D degree from the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh (2015 April). Before coming to the School of Public Health, Peking University, Dr. Xue worked at Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University (2015-2017), and at College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University as a post-doc research. Dr. Xue published > 60 peer-reviewed articles, and served interviewers for serval journals such as Nature Sustainability, Science Bulletin, Environmental Health Perspective, Environmental Science & Technology, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. We are looking for postdoc researchers, research assistants and visiting students, who are interested in the following topics or relevant ones.

Main research directions

1. Effects of air pollution on reproductive health

2. Causal effects of clean air actions

3. Environmental exposure and risk assessments based on data fusion

Representative scientific research projects

PI: NSFC 41701591 and 4217050142, and PKU-Baidu Fund 2020BD031.

10 representative papers

1. Li J#, Guan T#, Guo Q#, Geng G, Wang H, Guo F, Li J, Xue T*. Exposure to landscape fire smoke reduced birthweight in low-and middle-income countries: findings from a siblings-matched case-control study. eLife. 2021 Sep 29;10:e69298.

2. Xue T*,#, Geng G#, Han Y, Wang H, Li J, Li H, Zhou Y, Zhu T*. Open fire exposure increases the risk of pregnancy loss in South Asia. Nature Communications 2021; 20: 37676. 10.1038/s41467-021-23529-7.

3. Xue T#,*, Geng G#, Li J#, et al, Zhu T*. Associations Between Exposure to Landscape Fire Smoke and Child Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: a matched case-control study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(9), e588-e598.

4. Xue, T., Guan, T., Geng, G., Zhang, Q., Zhao, Y. and Zhu, T.*, 2021. Estimation of pregnancy losses attributable to exposure to ambient fine particles in south Asia: an epidemiological case-control study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(1), pp.e15-e24.

5. Xue, T., Zhu, T.*, Geng, G. and Zhang, Q., 2019. Association between pregnancy loss and ambient PM2· 5 using survey data in Africa: a longitudinal case-control study, 1998–2016. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(5), pp.e219-ee225.

6. Xue T*, Guan T, Zheng Y, Geng G, Zhang Q, Yao Y and Zhu T*. Long-term PM2.5 exposure and depressive symptoms in China: a quasi-experimental study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 2021, 6: 100079.

7. Xue T*, Zhu T*, Peng W, Guan T, Zhang S, Zheng Y, Geng G, Zhang Q. Clean air actions in China, PM2.5 exposure and household medical expenditures: A quasi-experimental study. PLoS Medicine 2021, 18(1), p.e1003480.

8. Xue T, Zhu T*, Zheng Y, Zhang Q. Declines in mental health associated with air pollution and temperature variability in China. Nature Communications 2019; 10, 2165.

9. Xue T, Zheng Y, Tong D, Zheng B, Li X, Zhu T, Zhang Q*. Spatiotemporal continuous estimates of PM2.5 concentrations in China, 2000-2016: a machine learning method with inputs from satellites, chemical transport model, and ground observations. Environment International 2019; 123: 345–357. (ESI highly cited）

10. Xue T, Liu J, Zhang Q*, Geng G, Zheng Y, Dan T, Liu Z, Guan D, Bo Y, Zhu T, He K, Hao J, Rapid improvement of PM2.5 pollution and associated health benefits in China during 2013–2017. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences 2019. 62(12), 1847-1856. (ESI highly cited)