Dr. Hu is a physician board-certified in internal medicine and occupational/environmental medicine who also holds a doctoral degree in epidemiology. He has continued research collaborations on multiple NIH- and EPA-funded epidemiologic investigations of the contribution of exposure to metals (and other pollutants), genetics, gene-environment interactions and epigenetics to the causation of chronic diseases in adults and impaired development in children.
Since 1990, Dr. Hu has led multi-institutional and international teams of scientists, students and fellows devoted to investigating the environmental, nutritional, social, psychosocial, genetic and epigenetic determinants of chronic disease and impaired child development in birth cohort and aging cohort studies in the U.S., Mexico, India, China, and elsewhere around the world. His team’s work has generated over 350 publications and won a number of awards.