Hui Hu, PhD

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Research, talks, awards, and collaborations.

  1. I co-hosted the SPACESCANS workshop at ISEE 2026 in Munich, introducing tools for spatiotemporal exposome linkage and analysis. Explore the workshop and materials →

  2. I presented “Integrating Multi-Source Geospatial Data to Advance Human Exposome Research: Challenges and Opportunities” at the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston.

  3. Our study of the spatial and contextual exposome and subtypes of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, using double machine learning, was published in Exposome.

  4. Our study of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and cardiovascular disease within five years after delivery was published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.

  5. Our systematic scoping review and meta-analysis of neonatal outcomes among pregnancies affected by COVID-19 was published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

  6. I gave an invited talk, “The Spatial and Contextual Exposome: Methodological Challenges and Paths Forward,” at the Department of Epidemiology at Indiana University Indianapolis.

  7. We received an NIEHS R24 award to develop SPACESCANS, a semantic data integration system for spatial and contextual exposome research.

  8. I am excited to deliver a talk on the challenges and opportunities in integrating and leveraging contextual-level social determinants of health at the AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit.

  9. Grateful to receive an RF1 award from NIA, as the contact PI, to support our research on post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent disease progression in individuals with AD/ADRD.

  10. Excited to be appointed as a standing member for NIH's ASPB study section.

  11. Grateful to receive an administrative supplement from NIA and NHLBI to expand my K01 award to examine hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and early-onset Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

  12. Our spatial and contextual exposome-wide association study of COVID-19 hospitalization has been published on Exposome.

  13. I am excited to deliver a talk on the methodological challenges in spatial and contextual exposome studies at the monthly 'Chalk Talks' hosted by the Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health. A companion review article on this topic was also published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology.

  14. Grateful to receive an administrative supplement from NIA and NIEHS to expand our parent award (R21ES032762) on the external exposome and COVID-19 severity to focus on individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

  15. Grateful to receive a K01 award from NHLBI to continue our research on the external exposome, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and women's cardiovascular health after delivery.

  16. Our review article on the semantic standards of external exposome data has been published on Environmental Research.

  17. Our external exposome-wide association study of COVID-19 Mortality in the US has been published on Science of The Total Environment.

  18. One paper on the chemical composition of fine particulate matter and gestational diabetes mellitus is published on Environmental Research.

  19. Grateful to receive a grant from NCATS, as the MPI, to support our research on assessing the feasibility of a universal prenatal screening tool to identify women at risk of pregnancy-associated death.

  20. Grateful to receive an R21 grant from NIEHS, as the contact PI, to support our research on studying the external exposome and COVID-19 severity.

  21. One paper on the external exposome-wide association study of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is published by Environment International.

  22. A systematic review on environment-wide association study is published on Envionrmental Research.

  23. An invited commentary on air pollution and preeclampsia is published by Hypertension.

  24. One paper on the association between age at menarche and depression is published by PeerJ.

  25. Honored to be invited by AHA to participate the 45th annual Ten-Day Seminar on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.

  26. One paper on the spatiotemporal patterns of racial disparities in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is published by Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology.

  27. Honored to be awarded the Sandra A. Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease or Hypertension Epidemiology and Prevention by AHA.

  28. Excited to colloborate with Dr. Linda Cottler on a NIDA R21 grant, as a Co-I, to identify patterns of polysubstance use.

  29. Excited to be invited to review for the New England Journal of Medicine.

  30. One paper on the global burden of HIV-1 drug resistance is published by PeerJ.

  31. Excited to collaborate with Dr. Mattia Prosperi on a contract from Florida Department of Health to perform spatiotemporal analysis of HIV drug resistance.

  32. Excited to collaborate with the UF Diabetes Institute and Stanford University on a grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to improve access to Type 1 diabetes care.

  33. One paper on probablity sampling using GIS/GPS technologies is published by Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.

  34. Grateful to receive a grant from UF Shands Quasi Endowment Fund, as the PI, to support our research on the data linkage between HealthStreet and UF Health Epic EHR.

  35. Grateful to receive a grant from American Heart Association, as the PI, to support our research on studying the total environment and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

  36. Excited to collaborate with Dr. Kelly Gurka and West Virginia University on a grant from CDC to perform policy evaluation on prescription drug overdose.

  37. Happy to successfully hold a series of meetups on health data science with PhD students in the department.