Shao Lin

Dr. Shao Lin, a tenured Professor of both the Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences and the Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics focuses her research in assessing the impacts of various environmental exposures on human health. Lin, who grew up in China, joined the New York State Dept. of Health (NYSDOH) in 1990 and the Dept. of Epidemiology/Biostatistics at UAlbany in 1993. As a Principal Investigator and Bureau Research Director, she has 28 years of experience in directing over 40 studies assessing health impacts of various environmental and occupational exposures, including climate change, extreme weather, air pollution, heavy traffic exposure, urban air toxics exposures, health effects among New York City residents living near Ground Zero after the 9/11/01 disaster and after Hurricane Sandy. Dr. Lin has been invited to serve on to multiple state and federal advisory boards, such as NYSDOH's Asthma Advisory Board, the World Trade Center Advisory Board, and several national workgroups for developing climate change indicators, evaluating current heat-stress definition, preparing white papers, and comparing projection methods. She was one of the ten invited Expert Panelists by the NIH, CDC and EPA providing recommendation and direction of climate-health research to the US Congress. Dr. Lin also received wide international reputation in e environmental health field. Since 2010, Dr. Lin has given 60 invited presentations in U.S. and internationally in addition to 72 conference presentations. To date, Dr. Lin has over 120 publications and an external grant-funding record over 18 million. Dr. Lin has been invited as a reviewer for multiple top environmental journals, and has been an appointed member of NIH grant reviewer for the IRAP Study Section (2012 – 2018). She recently contributed to a book chapter entitled “Health Impacts of September 11” in Environmental Health in the 21st Century: From Air Pollution to Zoonotic Diseases. Her studies regarding the effects of power outage on mental health have currently been featured in over six national media, including New York Times Magazine and Conversation US. Dr. Lin obtained her medical degree from Sun Yet-Sen University in China, and her MPH, Prevention Medicine Residency, and Ph.D. at Epidemiology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.