Lina Mu
PhD, MD
Director, Office of Global Health Initiatives
Associate Professor
Research Topics
Assessing air pollution exposure and associated health outcomes, and the underlying biological mechanisms; examining lifestyle factors, gene-environment interaction, and cancer etiology, survival and prevention; as well as using a life-course approach to understand the role of various environmental and social exposure on child development and human health.
Summary
Lina Mu, PhD, MD joined the department in June 2008 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in August 2013. Previously she was an AACR scholar in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Fudan University, P.R. China, 2002
- MD, Shanxi Medical University, Shanxi, China, 1995
Professional Training
- Scholarship, AACR Scholar, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 2006-2008
- Fellowship, Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, 2002-2003
- Fellowship, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
Professional Affiliations
- American Association for Cancer Research
- International Epidemiologic Association
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
- Molecular Epidemiology Working Group
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