📝 Publications

Multi-year Evaluation of a Clean Heating Policy on Residents’ Air Pollution Exposures in Beijing, China
Xiaoying Li, Collin Brehmer, Kennedy Hirst, et al.
Environmental Science & Technology, 2025

• A comprehensive evaluation of the “Clean Heating Policy” on air quality: indoor, outdoor, and personal exposure

Effects of outdoor and household air pollution on hand grip strength in a longitudinal study of predominantly rural Beijing adults
Wenlu Yuan, Xiaoying Li, Collin Brehmer, et al.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2025

• Air pollution and grip strength among rural adults: A health status indicator

Investigating Indoor VOC Complexities in Rural Beijing: Environmental, Resident Behavioral, and Household Energy-Use Paradigms
Jian Ma, Xiaojing Zhu, Xiaoying Li, et al.
Building and Environment, 2025
Abstract

• Assessment of Indoor VOC Exposure and Contributing Factors in North China Rural Households

Unacknowledged health costs of subway transportation: commuting time dominant environmental inequality in PM2.5 exposure
Huan Lin, Xiang Zhang, Yuhan Hu, Shiqiu Zhang
Journal of Transport & Health, 2024
Abstract

• Inequities in Health Impacts of Air Pollution Exposure During Subway Commuting in Megacities

Rural Household Energy Transition in China: Trends and Challenges
Xiang Zhang, Chris Barrington-Leigh, Brian E Robinson
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024

• Temporal Trends and Spatial Disparities in Rural Household Energy Transition in China

Effects of indoor and outdoor temperatures on blood pressure and central hemodynamics in a wintertime longitudinal study of Chinese adults
Talia J Sternbach, Sam Harper, Xiaoying Li, et al.
Journal of Hypertension, 2022

• Winter Home Heating and Cardiovascular Health Risks in Rural Elderly Populations in China

Socioeconomic and demographic associations with wintertime air pollution exposures at household, community, and district scales in rural Beijing, China
Xiaoying Li, Jill Baumgartner, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, et al.
Environmental Science & Technology, 2022

• Wealthier rural households used more coal, while less wealthy households used more biomass, but overall exposures were similar across socioeconomic groups

Field measurements of indoor and community air quality in rural Beijing before, during, and after the COVID‐19 lockdown
Xiaoying Li, Jill Baumgartner, Sam Harper, et al.
Indoor Air, 2022

• Impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on rural households indoor air quality

Health and economic benefits of cleaner residential heating in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region in China
Xiang Zhang, Yana Jin, Hancheng Dai, Yang Xie, Shiqiu Zhang
Energy Policy, 2019

• 🔥 ESI 1% Highly Cited Paper in May 2023.
• Environment, health and economic benefits of the “Clean Heating Policy” in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region

Expenditure versus comfort: distributional impacts on household space heating energy transition program in rural China
Xiang Zhang, Chris Barrington-Leigh, Brian Robinson, et al.
In preparation, 2025

• Impacts of energy transition on rural household’s energy poverty

Household Energy Transition and Subjective Well-being: A Difference-in-Difference Estimate of Outcomes in Rural North China
Xiang Zhang, Chris Barrington-Leigh, Brian Robinson, et al.
In preparation, 2025

• How do households experience the impact of clean heating on their quality of life

China’s Clean Heating Policy and Effects on Blood Pressure
Talia Sternbach, et al.
Submitted , 2025

• Treatment effects of the “Clean Heating Policy” on rural adult’s blood pressure

Effects of China’s Clean Heating Policy on respiratory symptoms and airway inflammation in adults: a quasi-experimental study in rural Beijing
Kaibing Xue, et al.
In preparation, 2025

• Treatment effects of the “Clean Heating Policy” on rural adult’s respiratory health

Impacts of a Coal-to-Clean Heating Policy on Untargeted Biomass Stove Use in Rural Beijing
Brehmer C, Sternbach T, Enkhuun Byambadorj, et al.
Submitted, 2025

• A fast and low-cost monitoring approach for household stove use behavior