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Yu Chen

Yu Chen, MPH, PhD

Professor, Department of Population Health

Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine

Keywords
Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Gastric cancer, Arsenic exposure, Environmental epidemiology, Microbiome
Summary

I am a chronic disease epidemiologist involved in multidisciplinary research that focuses on how host and environmental factors are related to chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease and cancer.

For the past 18 years, I have worked with colleagues from Columbia University and the University of Chicago to study health effects of arsenic exposure in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) in Bangladesh.

Recently, I have been leading a project with colleagues at Vanderbilt University to investigate the role of the gastric and oral microbiome in gastric premalignant and malignant lesions. I also conduct research using resources from the NYU Women’s Health Study and the Asia Cohort Consortium.

I am a recipient of the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. I direct a course on epidemiology methods for graduate students at NYU School of Medicine. I received my PhD with distinction in epidemiology from Columbia University in 2005. As of 2018, I have authored more than 170 journal articles.

Phone

212-263-4839

Academic office

650 First Ave

Room 510

New York, NY 10016

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Positions

Professor, Department of Population Health

Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from Columbia University

MPH from Columbia University

Early life and adolescent arsenic exposure from drinking water and blood pressure in adolescence

Chen, Yu; Wu, Fen; Liu, Xinhua; Parvez, Faruque; LoIacono, Nancy J; Gibson, Elizabeth A; Kioumourtzoglou, Marianthi-Anna; Levy, Diane; Shahriar, Hasan; Uddin, Mohammed Nasir; Islam, Taruqul; Lomax, Angela; Saxena, Roheeni; Sanchez, Tiffany; Santiago, David; Ellis, Tyler; Ahsan, Habibul; Wasserman, Gail A; Graziano, Joseph H

Environmental research. 2019 Nov; 178:108681

Sex differences in the prevalence of vascular disease and risk factors in young hospitalized patients with psoriasis

Garshick, Michael S; Vaidean, Georgeta; Nikain, Cyrus A; Chen, Yu; Smilowitz, Nathaniel R; Berger, Jeffrey S

International journal of women's dermatology. 2019 Sep; 5(4):251-255

Association between educational level and total and cause-specific mortality: a pooled analysis of over 694 000 individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

Yang, Keming; Zhang, Ying; Saito, Eiko; Rahman, Md Shafiur; Gupta, Prakash Chandra; Sawada, Norie; Tamakoshi, Akiko; Gao, Yu-Tang; Koh, Woon-Puay; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Tsuji, Ichiro; Sadakane, Atsuko; Nagata, Chisato; You, San-Lin; Yuan, Jian-Min; Shin, Myung-Hee; Chen, Yu; Pan, Wen-Harn; Pednekar, Mangesh S; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Cai, Hui; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Ozasa, Kotaro; Tomata, Yasutake; Kanemura, Seiki; Sugawara, Yumi; Wada, Keiko; Wang, Renwei; Ahn, Yoon-Ok; Yoo, Keun-Young; Ahsan, Habibul; Chia, Kee Seng; Boffetta, Paolo; Kang, Daehee; Potter, John D; Inoue, Manami; Zheng, Wei; Nan, Hongmei

BMJ open. 2019 Aug 22; 9(8):e026225

Anthropometric Risk Factors for Cancers of the Biliary Tract in the Biliary Tract Cancers Pooling Project

Jackson, Sarah S; Van Dyke, Alison L; Zhu, Bin; Pfeiffer, Ruth M; Petrick, Jessica L; Adami, Hans-Olov; Albanes, Demetrius; Andreotti, Gabriella; Beane Freeman, Laura E; Berrington de Gonzalez, Amy; Buring, Julie E; Chan, Andrew T; Chen, Yu; Fraser, Gary E; Freedman, Neal D; Gao, Yu-Tang; Gapstur, Susan M; Gaziano, J Michael; Giles, Graham G; Grant, Eric J; Grodstein, Francine; Hartge, Patricia; Jenab, Mazda; Kitahara, Cari M; Knutsen, Synnove F; Koh, Woon-Puay; Larsson, Susanna C; Lee, I-Min; Liao, Linda M; Luo, Juhua; McGee, Emma E; Milne, Roger L; Monroe, Kristine R; Neuhouser, Marian L; O'Brien, Katie M; Peters, Ulrike; Poynter, Jenny N; Purdue, Mark P; Robien, Kim; Sandler, Dale P; Sawada, Norie; Schairer, Catherine; Sesso, Howard D; Simon, Tracey G; Sinha, Rashmi; Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael Z; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Wang, Renwei; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Weinstein, Stephanie J; White, Emily; Wolk, Alicja; Yuan, Jian-Min; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Zhang, Xuehong; McGlynn, Katherine A; Campbell, Peter T; Koshiol, Jill

Cancer research. 2019 Aug 01; 79(15):3973-3982

South Asian Health: Inflammation, Infection, Exposure, and the Human Microbiome

Leng, Jennifer; Peruluswami, Ponni; Bari, Sehrish; Gaur, Sunanda; Radparvar, Farshid; Parvez, Faruque; Chen, Yu; Flores, Cristina; Gany, Francesca

Journal of immigrant & minority health. 2019 Aug; 21(Suppl 1):26-36

Development of a Neighborhood Walkability Index for Studying Neighborhood Physical Activity Contexts in Communities across the U.S. over the Past Three Decades

Rundle, Andrew G; Chen, Yu; Quinn, James W; Rahai, Neloufar; Bartley, Katherine; Mooney, Stephen J; Bader, Michael D; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Lovasi, Gina S; Neckerman, Kathryn M

Journal of urban health. 2019 Aug; 96(4):583-590

The association between gut microbiome and anthropometric measurements in Bangladesh

Osborne, Gwendolyn; Wu, Fen; Yang, Liying; Kelly, Dervla; Hu, Jiyuan; Li, Huilin; Jasmine, Farzana; Kibriya, Muhammad G; Parvez, Faruque; Shaheen, Ishrat; Sarwar, Golam; Ahmed, Alauddin; Eunus, Mahbub; Islam, Tariqul; Pei, Zhiheng; Ahsan, Habibul; Chen, Yu

Gut microbes. 2019 May 29; 1-14

Smoking, Alcohol, and Biliary Tract Cancer Risk: A Pooling Project of 26 Prospective Studies

McGee, Emma E; Jackson, Sarah S; Petrick, Jessica L; Van Dyke, Alison L; Adami, Hans-Olov; Albanes, Demetrius; Andreotti, Gabriella; Beane-Freeman, Laura E; de Gonzalez, Amy Berrington; Buring, Julie E; Chan, Andrew T; Chen, Yu; Fraser, Gary E; Freedman, Neal D; Gao, Yu-Tang; Gapstur, Susan M; Gaziano, J Michael; Giles, Graham G; Grant, Eric J; Grodstein, Francine; Hartge, Patricia; Jenab, Mazda; Kitahara, Cari M; Knutsen, Synnove F; Koh, Woon-Puay; Larsson, Susanna C; Lee, I-Min; Liao, Linda M; Luo, Juhua; Milne, Roger L; Monroe, Kristine R; Neuhouser, Marian L; O'Brien, Katie M; Peters, Ulrike; Poynter, Jenny N; Purdue, Mark P; Robien, Kim; Sandler, Dale P; Sawada, Norie; Schairer, Catherine; Sesso, Howard D; Simon, Tracey G; Sinha, Rashmi; Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael; Tsugane, Shochiro; Wang, Renwei; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Weinstein, Stephanie J; White, Emily; Wolk, Alicja; Yuan, Jian-Min; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Zhang, Xuehong; Zhu, Bin; McGlynn, Katherine A; Campbell, Peter T; Koshiol, Jill

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2019 May 24;

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