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Wenli Ni is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests lie in understanding how climate change affects health in both children and adults, as well as the overlapping impacts of climate change and air pollution.

She obtained her PhD in environmental epidemiology from Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich in Germany. During her doctoral journey, Ni investigated the effects of air temperature on cardiovascular disease, focusing on underlying mechanisms such as DNA methylation, proteomics, and epigenetic aging. As a visiting PhD researcher at Karolinska Institute in Sweden, she examined the associations between air temperature, air pollution, and myocardial infarction hospitalizations using comprehensive Swedish nationwide registry data.

Throughout her career, she has remained passionately committed to advancing research in climate-related health, continuously contributing to knowledge in this critical field.

• Climate change, air pollution, and health