Dr. Zhongzheng “Jason” Niu focuses his research on cardiometabolic health development over the life course and biological aging process, particularly in association with environmental exposures and underlying mechanisms. His ongoing research examines how air pollution and heatwave, along with other environmental contaminations (e.g., endocrine-disrupting chemicals), are associated with maternal cardiometabolic health during pregnancy and newborns biological aging. He is the principal investigator of the "BEST-kids" study, a community-based cohort study that investigates how a complex array of psychosocial and environmental stressors jointly influences mental and cardiometabolic health among children with a refugee backgrounds. 

• PhD, epidemiology, University at Buffalo
• M.Sc., epidemiology and biostatistics, Sun Yat-sen University
• M.B.B.S (U.S. MD equivalent), Kunming Medical University

• Scholarship, Life Course Translational Research Network funded by Maternal & Child Health Bureau, Human Resources and Services Administration
  
• Fellowship, Presidential Sustainability Solution, University of Southern California
  
• Travel Award, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology--North American Chapter
  
• Trudy Bush Fellowship for Cardiovascular Disease Research in Women's Health, American Heart Association
  
• Saxon Graham Dissertation Award, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo
  
• Induction into the Gamma Lambda Chapter of the Delta Omega National Honorary Society in Public Health
  
• Robert O'Shea Student Travel Award, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo