Dr. Zhenyu Zhang received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Zhejiang University School of Public Health in 2016. He finished the post-doc training from the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2016-2021. Dr. Zhang is currently an assistant professor at Institute for Global Health and Development and the Department of Global Health of Peking University School of Public Health. Dr. Zhang’s work is focused on the study of the adverse health effects of air pollution, in particular in evaluating the role of environmental exposures in the development of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Zhang has published seminal papers showing that particulate matter air pollution exposure has a measurable impact on cardiovascular risk factors, clinical outcomes, and mortality. In addition to his work in environmental epidemiology, Dr. Zhang has made important contributions in estimating the individual air pollution exposure with statistical models. Dr. Zhang using the novel machine-learning approaches that incorporated meteorological measurements, land-use terms, satellite-based measurements, and simulation outputs from a chemical transport model to estimate daily concentrations of PM2.5 in China, the United States, and South Korea. Dr. Zhang has enjoyed looking at biologic risk factors as well as innovative epidemiologic methods and statistical analysis in the conduct of air pollution-health research. The ultimate objective of Dr. Zhang’s work is to decrease the enormous burden of air pollution-related diseases through developing the scientific basis for behavioral and policy interventions.