A/Prof Shanshan Li is an internationally recognized environmental epidemiologist. She is a recipient of NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellowship (EL2) and NHMRC Early Career Fellowship. Her research interests focus on climate health, particularly for impacts of air pollution and climate change on child health, perinatal health, and birth outcomes.
In the past 10 years, Shanshan has published >300 papers in top-ranked journals such as NEJM, Lancet, BMJ, and Nature, with H-index=76. Her research achievements have been recognized by various awards: Bupa Emerging Health Researcher, Atmosphere Young Investigator Award, ISEE Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper Award, Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference Award. She sits on the editorial board of several prestigious journals and is a peer reviewer of >100 international journals including Lancet and BMJ. As CI, Shanshan has secured >$8M funding. She has built and maintained collaborative networks worldwide. Her work provided essential evidence to WHO and IPCC enhancing implementation of effective prevention of heat and air pollution risk and has been adopted by various research councils to make guidelines to prevent the adverse impacts of extreme environmental events.