Research Assistant Professor in Environmental Epidemiology
University of Michigan School of Public Health
I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Center for Midlife Sciences at the University of Michigan.
I received my master of public health (M.P.H.) and Ph.D. degrees in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
My research interests broadly relate to developing and applying novel data-driven approaches to systematically evaluate a wide variety of environmental factors with aging-related diseases, including cardiometabolic disorders and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias. I am now working with several ongoing cohort studies, including the Study of the Environment and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (SEAD), the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), Normative Aging Study (NAS), the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
My current works focus on:
Environmental mixtures effects
Exposomes
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
Cardiovascular disease
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Obesity
Risk prediction
Precision medicine
Contact me: xwangsph@umich.edu