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Jonathan Y. Huang, PhD, MPH

Project 4 Leader — Causal discovery of environmental toxicants

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Data Science, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, UH Mānoa

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Jonathan Y. Huang, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Data Science in the Department of Public Health Sciences (Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, which he joined in 2023. He earned a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and English Literature from the University of Virginia, an MPH and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington, and completed postdoctoral training at McGill University.

Before returning to the U.S., he led the Biostatistics Platform at the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (A*STAR); he retains those ties as a Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Human Development and Potential and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. His research focuses on the social and biological mechanisms shaping early child health and development — including environmental contaminants, neurodevelopment, and molecular biomarkers — with deep methodological expertise in formal causal inference and causal mediation analysis.

He serves as an Associate Editor at the International Journal of Epidemiology and has published in venues such as JAMA Pediatrics, Nature Communications, and Environmental Health Perspectives. In PAC-AID he leads Project 4 on the causal discovery of environmental toxicants.

Profile information adapted from Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Data Science, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, UH Mānoa.