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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 at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from Columbia University

MPH from Columbia University

Quantifying the association of low-intensity and late initiation of tobacco smoking with total and cause-specific mortality in Asia

Yang, Jae Jeong; Yu, Danxia; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Freedman, Neal D; Wen, Wanqing; Rahman, Shafiur; Abe, Sarah K; Saito, Eiko; Gupta, Prakash C; He, Jiang; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Gao, Yu-Tang; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Yuan, Jian-Min; Tomata, Yasutake; Tsuji, Ichiro; Sugawara, Yumi; Matsuo, Keitaro; Ahn, Yoon-Ok; Park, Sue K; Chen, Yu; Pan, Wen-Harn; Pednekar, Mangesh; Gu, Dongfeng; Sawada, Norie; Cai, Hui; Li, Hong-Lan; Koh, Woon-Puay; Wang, Renwei; Zhang, Shu; Kanemura, Seiki; Ito, Hidemi; Shin, Myung-Hee; Wu, Pei-Ei; Yoo, Keun-Young; Ahsan, Habibul; Chia, Kee Seng; Boffetta, Paolo; Inoue, Manami; Kang, Daehee; Potter, John D; Zheng, Wei

Tobacco control. 2021 May; 30(3):328-335

Prediagnostic antibody responses to Fusobacterium nucleatum proteins are not associated with risk of colorectal cancer in a large United States consortium

Lo, Chun-Han; Blot, William J; Teras, Lauren R; Visvanathan, Kala; Le Marchand, Loic; Haiman, Christopher A; Chen, Yu; Sesso, Howard D; Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia; Tinker, Lesley F; Peek, Richard M; Potter, John D; Cover, Timothy L; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Berndt, Sonja I; Waterboer, Tim; Epplein, Meira; Butt, Julia; Song, Mingyang

Cancer epidemiology biomarkers & prevention. 2021 Mar 18;

Body size and weight change over adulthood and risk of breast cancer by menopausal and hormone receptor status: a pooled analysis of 20 prospective cohort studies

van den Brandt, Piet A; Ziegler, Regina G; Wang, Molin; Hou, Tao; Li, Ruifeng; Adami, Hans-Olov; Agnoli, Claudia; Bernstein, Leslie; Buring, Julie E; Chen, Yu; Connor, Avonne E; Eliassen, A Heather; Genkinger, Jeanine M; Gierach, Gretchen; Giles, Graham G; Goodman, Gary G; HÃ¥kansson, Niclas; Krogh, Vittorio; Le Marchand, Loic; Lee, I-Min; Liao, Linda M; Martinez, M Elena; Miller, Anthony B; Milne, Roger L; Neuhouser, Marian L; Patel, Alpa V; Prizment, Anna; Robien, Kim; Rohan, Thomas E; Sawada, Norie; Schouten, Leo J; Sinha, Rashmi; Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael Z; Teras, Lauren R; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Visvanathan, Kala; Weiderpass, Elisabete; White, Kami K; Willett, Walter C; Wolk, Alicja; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Smith-Warner, Stephanie A

European journal of epidemiology. 2021 Jan; 36(1):37-55

The Ramapough Lunaape Nation: Facing Health Impacts Associated with Proximity to a Superfund Site

Meltzer, Gabriella; Avenbuan, Oyemwenosa; Wu, Fen; Shah, Krina; Chen, Yu; Mann, Vincent; Zelikoff, Judith T

Journal of community health. 2020 Dec; 45(6):1196-1204

Auto-antibodies to p53 and the Subsequent Development of Colorectal Cancer in a U.S. Prospective Cohort Consortium

Butt, Julia; Blot, William J; Visvanathan, Kala; Le Marchand, Loïc; Wilkens, Lynne R; Chen, Yu; Sesso, Howard D; Teras, Lauren; Ryser, Marc D; Hyslop, Terry; Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia; Tinker, Lesley F; Potter, John D; Song, Mingyang; Berndt, Sonja I; Waterboer, Tim; Pawlita, Michael; Epplein, Meira

Cancer epidemiology biomarkers & prevention. 2020 Dec; 29(12):2729-2734

Prenatal and postnatal mercury exposure and blood pressure in childhood

Farzan, Shohreh F; Howe, Caitlin G; Chen, Yu; Gilbert-Diamond, Diane; Korrick, Susan; Jackson, Brian P; Weinstein, Adam R; Karagas, Margaret R

Environment international. 2020 Oct 28; 146:106201

Sustained weight loss and risk of breast cancer in women ≥50 years: a pooled analysis of prospective data

Teras, Lauren R; Patel, Alpa V; Wang, Molin; Yaun, Shiaw-Shyuan; Anderson, Kristin; Brathwaite, Roderick; Caan, Bette J; Chen, Yu; Connor, Avonne E; Eliassen, A Heather; Gapstur, Susan M; Gaudet, Mia M; Genkinger, Jeanine M; Giles, Graham G; Lee, I-Min; Milne, Roger L; Robien, Kim; Sawada, Norie; Sesso, Howard D; Stampfer, Meir J; Tamimi, Rulla M; Thomson, Cynthia A; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Visvanathan, Kala; Willett, Walter C; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Smith-Warner, Stephanie A

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2020 Sep 01; 112(9):929-937

Adult weight change and premenopausal breast cancer risk: A prospective pooled analysis of data from 628,463 women

Schoemaker, Minouk J; Nichols, Hazel B; Wright, Lauren B; Brook, Mark N; Jones, Michael E; O'Brien, Katie M; Adami, Hans-Olov; Baglietto, Laura; Bernstein, Leslie; Bertrand, Kimberly A; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Chen, Yu; Connor, Avonne E; Dossus, Laure; Eliassen, A Heather; Giles, Graham G; Gram, Inger T; Hankinson, Susan E; Kaaks, Rudolf; Key, Timothy J; Kirsh, Victoria A; Kitahara, Cari M; Larsson, Susanna C; Linet, Martha; Ma, Huiyan; Milne, Roger L; Ozasa, Kotaro; Palmer, Julie R; Riboli, Elio; Rohan, Thomas E; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Sadakane, Atsuko; Sund, Malin; Tamimi, Rulla M; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Ursin, Giske; Visvanathan, Kala; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Willett, Walter C; Wolk, Alicja; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Sandler, Dale P; Swerdlow, Anthony J

International journal of cancer. 2020 Sep 01; 147(5):1306-1314

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