Zhongzheng (Jason) Niu joined the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health as an assistant professor in 2024. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar research associate at the University of Southern California in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. 

• 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