Prof. Wang focused on association analysis between weather variations, ambient air quality and risk of infectious diseases, such as diarrhea, infectious gastrointestinal disease, enterovirus infection/complicated illness, eye disease/conjunctivitis, skin disease and influenza. In addition, assessments on temperature indices and mortality and morbidity risks of Taiwanese population in association with prolonged extreme temperatures event (heatwave and cold spell) were also the focus of her research. The research expanded the temperature-health risk association study from using historical observations to real-time, seasonal and long-term predicting weather/climate data, to make practical applications of climate services in the field of public health.

For years 2017-2020, my research team systematically evaluated the area-sex-age stratified disease-specific (more than 100 diseases categories) health risk associated with ambient environment using 23 million population-based vital statistics and national health insurance claims. Risks of hourly ambulance services associated with total fine particulate matter and it constituents were also evaluated. In the next few years, I will cooperate with investigators from Sweden and the United States, and partners from the Asia Pacific Region (India, China, Vietnam, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; referred to as the focus area) to establish a multinational consortium of scientists that will perform a comparative analysis of diarrheal disease risk associated with extreme weather events. Our consortium will develop a transferable solution — seasonal to sub-seasonal (S2S) early warnings for diarrheal disease — that will be implemented across the focus area to reduce extreme weather-related diarrheal disease burdens and improve community resilience to climate change.

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu-Chun-Wang-3

Elsevier: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55734029300

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