NG CHRIS FOOK SHENG

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Other affiliations (1)：

Nagasaki University School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health Visiting Associate Professor

Research field (3)： Hygiene and public health (non-laboratory) , Hygiene and public health (non-laboratory) , Environmental policy and society

Research keywords (7)： Environmental Epidemiology , Biostatistics , Environmental Statistics , Environmental Health , Air Quality and Health , Climate Change , Planetary Health

Research theme for competitive and other funds (9)：

2023 - 2026 Health impact of extreme temperatures and summer heat and adaptation research
2023 - 2026 Health effects of low-concentration, non-urban air pollution: health impacts of ship emission controls
2020 - 2023 Spatio-temporal assessment of the health effects of air pollution and its related effect modifiers using satellite data
2019 - 2022 Fire smoke and mortality in Southeast Asia: health impact assessment using SGLI-derived fire detection and radiative power estimation
2019 - 2022 Estimating excess mortality attributable to global warming: a multi-country environmental epidemiological study

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Papers (108)：

Lei Yuan, Yasushi Honda, Lina Madaniyazi, Aurelio Tobias, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Masahiro Hashizume. Toward a Cohort Perspective of Climate Epidemiology: The Case of Examining Intergenerational Inequalities in Susceptibility to Non-Optimal Temperatures in Japan. Environmental health perspectives. 2025. 133. 2. 27003-27003
Szu Yu Lin, Paul L. C. Chua, Lei Yuan, Nasif Hossain, Jinyu He, Lisa Yamasaki, Lina Madaniyazi, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Aurelio Tobias, Masahiro Hashizume. A scoping review and thematic analysis of the effects of tropical cyclones on diarrheal diseases. Environmental Epidemiology. 2025
Feurer D, Riffe T, Kniffka MS, Acosta E, Armstrong B, Mistry M, Lowe R, Royé D, Hashizume M, Madaniyazi L, et al. Meteorological factors, population immunity, and COVID-19 incidence: A global multi-city analysis. Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.). 2024
Lei Yuan, Lina Madaniyazi, Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Kazutaka Oka, Paul L.C. Chua, Kayo Ueda, Aurelio Tobias, Yasushi Honda, Masahiro Hashizume. Non-optimal temperature-attributable mortality and morbidity burden by cause, age and sex under climate and population change scenarios: a nationwide modelling study in Japan. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 2024. 52. 101214
Nasif Hossain, Lina Madaniyazi, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Dilruba Nasrin, Xerxes Tesoro Seposo, Paul L. C. Chua, Rui Pan, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Masahiro Hashizume. Short-term associations of diarrhoeal diseases in children with temperature and precipitation in seven low- and middle-income countries from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2024. 18. 10

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MISC (3)：

チュアポール・レスター, 高根雄也, ウンクリス・フック・シェン, 岡和孝, 本田靖, 橋爪真弘. 気候変動に伴う暑熱関連超過死亡:空調の人工排熱によるポジティブフィードバックを加味した効果. 日本気象学会大会講演予稿集(CD-ROM). 2022. 122
Motoi Suzuki, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Takuri Takahashi, Yuuki Tsuchihashi, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yuzo Arima, Kazuhiko Kanou, Masahiro Hashizume, Shuhei Nomura, Daisuke Yoneoka, et al. Estimation of Excess Mortality in Japan. 2020
橋爪真弘, キム・ユンヒ, ウン・クリス・フック・シェン, ベル・ミシェル, グオ・ユウ・レオン, カン・ハイドン, 本田靖, キム・ホオ, 西脇祐司. 黄砂の健康影響系統的疫学文献レビューとメタ解析. 日本衛生学雑誌. 2018. 73. Suppl. S235-S235

Books (3)：

Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change
Springer 2022 ISBN:9789811525278
The Imperative of Climate Change to Promote Health in Asia
AASSA Secretariat 2021 ISBN:9791186795682
Hazardous air pollutants: case studies from Asia
CRC Press 2016 ISBN:9781466593565

Lectures and oral presentations (71)：

Asian dust and daily mortality in East Asian cities: analysis using the European Union Reference Method for decomposing PM10
(35th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2023)
Contributions of influenza epidemics and ambient temperature to excess mortality in cold season
(35th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2023)
Effect modification of the association between high temperature and Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) risk by PM2.5 in Japan
(35th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2023)
Heatwaves and renal disease-related mortality during summer seasons in Japan
(35th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2023)
Short-term association between ambient temperature and renal disease mortality in Japan from 1979 to 2019: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis
(35th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2023)

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Education (3)：

- 2011 The University of Tokyo, Japan. Ph.D.
- 2005 University of Malaya, Malaysia. M.App.Stat.
- 2002 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. B.Sc.

Professional career (3)：

Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
M.App.Stats.(Distinction) (University of Malaya)
B.Sc. (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Work history (6)：

2021/10 - 現在 The University of Tokyo School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine Associate Professor
2018/04 - 2021/09 Nagasaki University School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health Associate Professor
2018/08 - 2019/01 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Rutherford Fellow
2015/10 - 2018/03 Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine Assistant Professor
2013/10 - 2015/09 The University of Tokyo School of International Health Postdoctoral Fellow

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Committee career (7)：

2023/07 - 現在 PLOS ONE (peered-reviewed journal) Editorial Board
2022/07 - 現在 Frontiers in Epidemiology (peered-reviewed journal, Frontiers Media SA) Associate Editor
2021/11 - 現在 Tropical Medicine and Health (peered-reviewed journal, BioMed Central, BMC) Editorial Board
2017/04 - 現在 Ministry of the Environment of Japan Task Force for Monitoring of Chemical Exposure in Human
2017/04 - 2022/03 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Application of Earth Observation Satellite Data in Public Health Research

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Awards (5)：

2024/04 - American Geophysical Union GeoHealth Editors’ Choice Award 2023 Effects of Desert Dust and Sandstorms on Human Health: A Scoping Review. GeoHealth. 2023; 7(3): e2022GH000728
2018/01 - Universities UK International (UUKi), United Kingdom Rutherford Fellowship Rutherford Fund Strategic Partner Grants programme
2015/08 - International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Rebecca James Baker Award 2015
2014/01 - Japan Epidemiological Association Journal of Epidemiology Paper of the Year 2014
2007/04 - Asia Japan Alumni (ASJA), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Asia Japan Alumni (ASJA) International Scholarship

Association Membership(s) (5)：

The Japanese Society for Hygiene , The Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine , Japan Epidemiological Association , International Society for Environmental Epidemiology , The Biometric Society of Japan

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