Dr. Xin Qi is an Associate Professor in Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He got his PhD degree inenvironmental epidemiology at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Dr. Qi has got 6 national and other research grants and a track record of publication and is now supervising postgraduate students: 6 master students as principle supervisor. He is a member of the American Public Health Association andtheInternational Society for Environmental Epidemiology.He is also the anonymous reviewer of several academic journals including PLoS ONE, BMC Infectious Diseases and Scientific Reports. His research areas include environmental epidemiology, climate change, air pollution and population health, spatiotemporal epidemiology and spatial statistics, global health.