The Health Data Research on Work and Environment (HDR-WE) Group
Research Field
I am an Assistant Professor at the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University. My primary research interests include infectious diseases, women's health, and the health effects of environmental hazards. I am also a certified Occupational Medicine Physician in Taiwan. My clinical expertise focuses on occupational health services, including occupational disease recognition, return-to-work assessments, and maternal health protection in the workplace.
Health Data Research on Work and Environment (HDR-WE) focuses on the responsible use of primary and secondary health data to examine how environmental and occupational exposures shape health across the life course. We specialise in analysing complex health datasets and large cohort studies, with a particular emphasis on electronic health records and population-based databases. We are using large databases to investigate critical contemporary health issues, including:
- Climate Change & Long COVID: Assessing the intersection of environmental changes and long-term post-viral outcomes.
- Occupational Health: Evaluating the potential adverse health effects associated with shift work.
- Maternal & Child Health: Exploring developmental outcomes using nationwide birth cohort data with linked clinical records.
In addition to database research, we cooperate with research teams across Taiwan to follow family-based birth cohorts, collecting biological samples and detailed data regarding growth, nutrition, and environmental factors. We also work closely with international research groups from Queen Mary University of London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK), leveraging electronic health records to answer high-impact clinical questions.
We welcome international students interested in epidemiological research and data analysis to work with us.
- Environmental health
- Occupational medicine
- General medicine
- Infectious diseases
- Nutrition
- LSHTM Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology discretionary travel fund (July 2023)
- The Graduate Thesis of the Year Award, Taiwan Epidemiology Association (October 2018)
- The Scholarship of Government Sponsorship for Overseas Study, Taiwan (December 2017)
PhD, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK, September 2018 – May 2022
- PhD in Epidemiology
MSc, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, February 2015 – January 2017
- MSc in the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene
MD, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, September 2005 – June 2012
- BSc in Medicine
Job Description
Join our team as a Research Intern to help explore the complex relationship between environmental exposure and its potential long-term health effects. You will use birth cohort data to explore the health outcomes associated with the “exposome,” a combination of multiple exposures. This role is ideal for graduate-level students in environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, or health data science.
Key Responsibilities:
- Birth cohort data analysis: organise and analyse a birth cohort data.
- Multi-exposure model building: utilise statistical methods to establish an exposomic analysis model to assess the mixture effects of multiple exposures.
- Implement life-course and exposomic frameworks to analyse complex, high-dimensional birth cohort datasets.
Preferred Intern Educational Level
Current PhD Student (preferably at the candidate level) in a relevant doctoral program.
Skill sets or Qualities
- Statistical Programming: High proficiency in R or Python is required.
- Advanced Biostatistics: Understand complex statistical modeling, such as mixed-effects models, GEE, or Bayesian statistics.
- Communication: Good in written and oral English.