Principal Investigator
Jianyong Wu
Dr. Wu joined the College of Public Health at Ohio State University in 2023. He received a Ph.D. in Environmental Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in Analytics from Georgia Institute of Technology. Before moving to Ohio, he was a senior data scientist at a company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and an instructional associate at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has broad interests and experience in environmental health, spatial epidemiology, infectious diseases, statistical modeling, and data science.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Yanni Cao
Yanni is an ecological geographer who earned her Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021. She then completed two years of postdoctoral training at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, followed by an additional year of postdoctoral research in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. In August 2024, she joined Ohio State University (OSU).
Yanni is deeply interested in the spatial distribution of ecological environments and their relationship to human benefits. Her previous research focused on the coupling and coordination between ecosystem patterns, ecosystem services, and urbanization, as well as socio-economic development. At OSU, her research will focus on the spatial distribution of ecological and socio-economic environments and their impact on human health. Yanni is passionate about uncovering the mechanisms by which the environment affects human health, aiming to provide effective theoretical support for public health policy. She believes that her research holds significant value and meaning for the socio-economic development of human society.