Prof. Fang GUO
郭芳教授
Research Links
- ORCID: 0000-0002-0426-7752
Bio
Dr. Fang Guo joined the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2025 as a Research Assistant Professor, after 3-year academic training as Post-doctoral Fellow at School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and then at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Dr. Guo graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2018 as the top 1% student in the combined Bachelor and Master program in Clinical Medicine (Preventive Medicine). She then earned her PhD in Environmental Health from HKU in 2022, graduating with honors in the top 10% of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine.
Her doctoral research introduced novel causal discovery tools into the environmental health arena, aiming to advance beyond the correlational evidence generated from classical regression models. Dr. Guo is dedicated to fostering inter-disciplinary endeavors to develop more research tools and strategies that enhance causal inference in traditional environmental epidemiology, representing a revolutionary innovation in this area.
Beyond research efforts in methodological development, Dr. Guo has gained enriched experience spearheading multiple population-based panel studies to decipher the health effects of environmental factors (including air pollutants and meteorological conditions) at the individual level. Through collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, she strives to capitalize on the research momentum in real-time personal exposure and health assessment sensors to promote precision public health. Meanwhile, Dr. Guo’s research interests also include cancer epidemiology and nutritional health.
Research Interest
- Environmental health
- Causal discovery and causal inference
- Cancer epidemiology
- Nutritional health
Recent Funded Research Projects
- General Research Fund from Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Grant No.: 17109723; Co-Investigator), The glass roots of esophageal cancer in China: needle-shaped diatom frustules in trash fish, 01/2024-12/2026.
- General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 82473595; Co-Investigator), Esophageal cancer and food contamination by siliceous needles in China: ecological and mechanistic studies, 01/2025-12/2028.
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province-General Project (Grant No.: 2022A1515011151; Co-Investigator), Does Ambient Carbon Monoxide Reduce Sepsis Risk? Evidence from Environmental Epidemiology, 01/2022-12/2024.
- Open Research Fund from Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety (Fudan University) (Grant No.: GW2019-7; Co-Investigator), Association of wheat chaff derived phytolith with esophageal cancer in Taihang Mountain area: a case-control study, 01/2019-12/2020.
Selected Publications
- Guo F#, Zhang P#, Do V#, Runge J, Zhang K, Han Z, Deng S, Lin H, Ali ST, Chen R, Guo Y, & Tian L* (2024). Ozone as an environmental driver of influenza. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3763.
- Zhang Q#, Zhao G#, Li Z#, Guo F#, Huang Y#, Guo G, Wang J, … & Yu X* (2024). Multi-functional adhesive hydrogel as bio-interface for wireless transient pacemaker. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 116597, 116597.
- Sun J#, Guo F*#, Ran J, Wu H, Li Y, Wang M*, & Wang X* (2023). Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Global Research on Taurine, Creatine, Carnosine, and Anserine with Metabolic Syndrome: From 1992 to 2022. Nutrients, 15(15).
- Guo F, Zhang Q, Jiang H, He Y, Li M, Ran J, Lin J, Tian W*, & Ma L* (2021). Dietary potato intake and risks of type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus. Clinical Nutrition, 40(6), 3754–3764.
- Guo F, Do V, Cooper R, Huang Y, Zhang P, Ran J, Zhang Q, Tian L*, & Fu T (2021). Trends of temperature variability: Which variability and what health implications? The Science of the Total Environment, 768, 144487.
#: co-first authors; *: co-corresponding authors.