Name Dongqun Xu
Sex Female
Present Position Professor, Deputy Director for Institute for Environmental Health and Related Product Safety，Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Reserch Direction: Air pollution and Health
Education:
1995-1998 Ph.D., Institute of Environmental Health Monitoring, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.
1990-1993 Master of Science, Department of Chemistry, Hebei University, Hebei Province.
1981-1985 Bachelor of Science, Department of Chemistry, Hebei University, Hebei Province.
Dr Xu Dongqun is the professor of occupational and environmental health, the deputy director of National Institute for Environmental Health(NIEH), China CDC. She is the member of World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Air Quality Thematic Working Group (WPRO TWGs), the member of the World Health Organization Tobacco Testing Laboratory Network (WHO TobLabNet), the member of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate services Committee, the expert of International Cooperation on Environment and Development Committee, the chairman of the Seventh National Environmental health standards Committee, the expert of first National Environment and Health Advisory Committee of Ministry of Health.
Dr. Xu’s research focus on the area of air pollution and the impacts of human health. She is the principal investigator (PI) of the study on biological effect assessment method of low level exposure to ambient fine particle, the study on the trigger action of air pollution to the synthesis of IgE signal pathway of children asthma, and the study on PM2.5, benzene and formaldehyde personal exposures as well as DNA damage biomarker funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). She is also PI of the study on indoor air quality monitoring and health impacts and the study on evaluation technology for influences of the air pollution on the children’s asthma funded by Ministry of Science and Technology of China. She is responsible for the key technologies research on human health risk assessment and early warning under haze weather funded by National Health and Family Planning Commission.
