The Department of Occupational Health, Department of Environmental Health and Department of Sanitary Chemistry, founded in 1954, 1950, and 1981 respectively, merged into a new department in 2000 and were renamed as the Department of Occupational & Environmental Health Sciences. The current chair of the department is Professor Xinbiao Guo.
The department offers the related professional courses for undergraduate students and provides the degree programs for Master of Science, Master of Public Health (MPH) and PhD, as well as professional continuing education for public health. The another mission of the department is to perform high level research works on the health effects of the population exposure to the chemical, physical, and biological factors in the occupational and living environment.
Faculty
There are 18 staffs in this department, including 5 professors, 4 associate professors, 2 Assistant Professor, 3 lecturers and 4 technicians.
Xinbiao Guo Professor, Chair
Major research field: Molecular environmental medicine, Environmental toxicology.
Guang Jia Professor, Chair
Major research field: Mechanism of occupational hazards and control.
Lihua He Professor
Major research field: Occupational safety, occupational ergonomics, adverse effects and mechanism of occupational hazards on health
Furong Deng Professor, Chair
Major research fields: Health effects of environmental factors and the mechanisms
Wei Huang Professor
Major research fields: Environmental Epidemiology
Wenjun Ma Associate Professor
Major research field: Reproductive health, Environmental heavy metals and health, Industrial toxicology.
Rong Cui Associate Professor
Major research field: Research of physical and chemical analysis in samples from environmental, food or biological origins.
Yun Wang Associate Professor
Major research fields: Adverse effects of occupational and environmental factors, Health impact of nanoparticle
Guoxing Li Associate Professor
Major research field: Environmental Epidemiology
Jing Huang Assistant Professor
Major research field: Healthy City Construction,Health impacts of air pollution and control.
Xu Gao Assistant Professor
Major research fields: Environmental Epidemiology
Junhui Xu Lecturer
Major research field: Research of Physical and Chemical analysis in samples from environmental and biological origins.
Xiaoming Song Lecturer
Major research field: Environmental Epidemiology
Zhangjian Chen Lecturer
Major research fields: Occupational health, Nanotoxicology.
Technician: Xiaobin Jin, Qian Zhao, Di Yang,Jinghui Zhao
Teaching
Courses for Undergraduate Students:
Occupational Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Sanitary Chemistry, Occupation and Health, Occupational Safety, Indoor air quality and Health, Biogeochemical environment and health, Environment Related Diseases, Environmental Medicine, Environmental pollution and brain health, Application of R-software/ Meta-analysis in Environmental Health Sciences, etc .
Courses for Postgraduate Students:
Advanced Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiologic Methods, Progress in Occupational Health Sciences, Women's occupation hygiene, Progress in Occupational safety and Injury and Occupational Ergonomics, Occupational stress, Progress in Environmental Health Sciences, Molecular Environmental Medicine, Progress in Environmental Epidemiology, Research Progress of Environmental Pollution and Brain Diseases, Investigation methods of health effects of environmental pollution incidents, Advanced Sanitary Chemistry, Analytical Errors and Quality Assurance, Biomonitoring and Biomarkers, Trace Elements and Detection Method, etc.
There are 42 master and 15 doctoral candidates in the department. The graduate students have been awarded many honors, such as the Beijing outstanding graduates and the scholarship award for excellent doctoral student granted by the Ministry of Education of China.
Scientific Research
The main research areas: (1) Occupational Health:Dust and pneumoconiosis, physical factors and ergonomics, industrial hygiene for women, industrial toxicology, safety evaluation of nanoparticles, biomarkers and biological monitoring, etc. (2) Environmental Health: Indoor and outdoor air pollution, environmental Health risk quantitative assessment, trace elements and health, metal pollution and health, toxicological mechanisms of environmental pollutants, effects of environmental factors and their mechanisms etc. (3) Sanitary Chemistry: biological standard materials, study on the assay of environmental and biological materials.
Research Projects in recent 5 years:
In the past 5 years, the department has obtained over 60 million Chinese Yuan research budget from over 110 research grants, supported by Ministry of Science & Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China, other national and provincial foundations and international collaborations.
Achievements of scientific research in recent 5 years:
In the past 5 years, the department has published more than 180 scientific papers in international or domestic peer reviewed academic journals.
Location:
5th floor (Sanitary Chemistry), 6th floor (Occupational Health), 7th floor (Environmental Health), Public Health Building of Peking University Health Science Center
Phone:
+86-10-8280-1532 (Sanitary Chemistry)
+86-10-8280-1523 (Occupational Health)
+86-10-8280-1522 (Environmental Health)