Yuming Guo

Professor, Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics; Head, Monash Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit yuming.guo@monash.edu

Core expertise

Global health

Biography

Dr Yuming Guo is Professor of Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics, and the head of the Monash Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit. His research group focuses on environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, global environmental change, air pollution, climate change, urban design, residential environment, remote sensing modelling, and infectious disease modelling.
He’s developed/participated in several large international collaborations to assess the impacts of air pollution, residential environment and climate change on human health.

articles

The Australian Parliament house is hardly visible behind a dense smog.

The invisible killer lurking in our cities’ air

As climate change makes smog and bushfires more common, people will die from air pollution at increasingly high rates – especially in densely-populated cities.

Medicine and health

A temperature gauge sitting in snow with snowflakes falling

Winter warning: The cold, hard truth about non-COVID deaths during the pandemic

A new study has found extreme cold weather increased the risk of death in Italy during the pandemic, and while Australian conditions are different, there are valuable lessons to be learned.

Medicine and health

Is greenery the secret to slowing the biological ageing process?

We all know being surrounded by plant life is good for the mind and soul, but can it be good for the body, too?

Medicine and health

Illustration of a dripping tap with a cracked, arid landscape background

Under the weather: How climate change is affecting human mortality

A new international study has found that more than five million extra deaths a year can be attributed to hot and cold temperatures.

Medicine and health