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Haidong Kan

Haidong Kan

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D-Index
106
Citations
60012
World Ranking
6382
National Ranking
67

Overview

Haidong Kan is affiliated with Fudan University in China, with a primary focus on environmental science. Their research spans various subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, general health professions, pollution, and physiology.

The main topics addressed in their work involve air quality and health impacts, climate change and health impacts, air quality monitoring and forecasting, global health care issues, energy and environment impacts, noise effects and management, and thermoregulation and physiological responses.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications in prominent venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Environment International
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Recent significant papers include:

  • Aerodynamic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in two Wuhan hospitals, 2020, Nature
  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University-Lancet Commission, 2022, The Lancet
  • No association of COVID-19 transmission with temperature or UV radiation in Chinese cities, 2020, European Respiratory Journal

Haidong Kan frequently collaborates with several researchers including Renjie Chen, Xia Meng, Cong Liu, Jing Cai, and Yue Niu.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Eric Lavigne

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Aerodynamic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in two Wuhan hospitals.

    Yuan Liu;Zhi Ning;Yu Chen;Ming Guo

  • Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

    Richard Burnett;Hong Chen;Mieczysław Szyszkowicz;Neal Fann

  • An Integrated Risk Function for Estimating the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Exposure

    Richard T. Burnett;C. Arden Pope;Majid Ezzati;Casey Olives

  • Cause-specific mortality for 240 causes in China during 1990-2013: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

    Maigeng Zhou;Haidong Wang;Jun Zhu;Wanqing Chen

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change

    A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;N. Scovronick;F. Sera;F. Sera;D. Royé

  • Transboundary health impacts of transported global air pollution and international trade

    Qiang Zhang;Xujia Jiang;Dan Tong;Steven J. Davis;Steven J. Davis

  • Respiratory risks from household air pollution in low and middle income countries

    Stephen B. Gordon;Nigel G. Bruce;Jonathan Grigg;Patricia L. Hibberd

  • Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Francesco Sera;Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera

  • Ambient air pollution, climate change, and population health in China

    Haidong Kan;Renjie Chen;Shilu Tong

  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study

    Qi Zhao;Qi Zhao;Yuming Guo;Tingting Ye;Antonio Gasparrini

  • Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Haidong Wang;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Season, Sex, Age, and Education as Modifiers of the Effects of Outdoor Air Pollution on Daily Mortality in Shanghai, China: The Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA) Study

    Haidong Kan;Stephanie J. London;Guohai Chen;Yunhui Zhang

  • Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Ryan M Barber;Nancy Fullman;Reed J D Sorensen;Thomas Bollyky

  • Association between ambient temperature and mortality risk and burden: time series study in 272 main Chinese cities

    Renjie Chen;Peng Yin;Lijun Wang;Cong Liu

  • Fine Particulate Matter Constituents and Cardiopulmonary Mortality in a Heavily Polluted Chinese City

    Junji Cao;Hongmei Xu;Qun Xu;Bingheng Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Renjie Chen
Renjie Chen Fudan University
Bingheng Chen
Bingheng Chen Fudan University
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Michelle L. Bell
Michelle L. Bell Yale University
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Robert G. Weintraub
Robert G. Weintraub Royal Children's Hospital
Johan Ärnlöv
Johan Ärnlöv Karolinska Institute

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